I live in an old granite house and despite installing central heating?

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new windows, insulating loft and taking other preventative measures to keep this house warm, it always feel cold.

Any ideas please as to why this might be. Fed up with spending money on trying to make the house feel warm and cosy.

Answer 1

We also have a slimilar problem, our house is limestone and the walls vary between 2 and 4 feet think.

The only way is to keep heating the AIR constantly, the walls will always feel cold to touch and sap heat from the rooms. You need to heat up the air in the room, not the walls or floor. A good way is open fires or air convector heaters. Radiators do work, but you have to push the warm air around the room. Also, make sure you have reflectors behind your radiators as there is no point trying to heat the granite up - its a loosing battle.

We find the temperature in our house lags the outside by about a week !. ie. if its frosty this week and mild next - we'll be cold next week and warmer the week after.

I find open fires are great. Log burners are best as they radiate a lot of thier heat directly into the room.

Unfortunately it'll cost you in gas/oil. Its one of the choices you make when buying a stone house. you will never get away from spending a lot on heating a stone house

If you want to ruin the character of your house, but stay warmish, you could dryline the rooms.

However, it was great in this hot summer, nice and cool indoors !

Answer 2

The heating installer should have calculated radiator sizes and boiler output to match/exceed the heat loss of your house, making adjustments for type of construction, window sizes and types, any insulation, and many other factors, this would also include a design temperature which would guarantee comfort down to -10°C or whatever you required. If this has not been done or is incorrect you will never reach a comfortable temperature.

You will also have to keep the heating on, not just a couple of hours in the morning and 4 or 5 in the evening, I suggest that you install an optimising thermostat/progammable thermostat, this will adjust the heating times and temperature depending if you are home or away, and will learn the buildings thermal characteristics, keeping you comfortable at the minimum cost. Honeywell CM67 is the control to look at.

Answer 3

If the walls are solid granite the heat will pass through to the outside. No insulating value. There is only one way to fix it that I know of. You must insulate the walls. You can insulate the inside which means redoing the interior. Or you can use foam to insulate the exterior and cover the foam with stucco or new siding. Insulating the exterior walls would be most efficient because it will allow the rock to actually warm up and act as a heat sink, like a log house works. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You should check if there is cavity wall insulation and it is sound(assuming the house was build with a cavity wall). The interior decor of the the house could be changed to create warmth - try cladding internal rooms with panelling or cloth wall coverings.
The reason why it is cold is because granite absorbs an awful lot of heat before it warms-up, similar to marble, in fact it rarely warms-up at low temperatures.

Answer 5

It never will feel warm because wood is a good insulator, not granite. Better start looking for another house if you want it to be warmer.

Answer 6

In your main living area, I would recommend a heated floor.
There are many types available, even some uitilizing a heat pump.

In many old houses, they used radiators/hot water heat because the radiant heat warms the walls/floor, etc instead of just the air.

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Answer 8

Your domicile windows are drawing out most of the warmth in the rooms. The condensation tells the story. whilst heated air is presented to a room, it includes moisture. whilst the domicile windows are previous and drafty, the warmth is going to the domicile windows. whilst water vapor hits the chilly glass, it condenses into water drops. purchase interior plastic movie for domicile windows. carry on with the instructions for installation. positioned it on each window in case you could. this could sluggish the warmth loss and the condensation on the domicile windows. A hurricane door put in and precise outfitted additionally will help to maintain warmth in the domicile.

Answer 9

Elecric heaters you know the little ones spread them around your house.You will save in the summer because it should stay cool. Stone houses are kinda like caves,they are just cooler inside.

Answer 10

your heat may be hanging near the ceiling try some ceiling fans