conservatory heating?

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if you have one, what heating do you have?

Ours joins onto the living area with no door. And it's got a rad. I am highly illegal!

Jojay, thanks for the link, that looks fantastic. Dare I ask how much it has cost? We have an Edwardian style conservatory which is about 10 x 9. I'd love to do that to ours.

It's great for drying clothes in. Especially given the health risk posed by wet laundry indoors
m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20176376
We have double glazed doors separating the rest of the house from the conservatory. We also have a electric convection heater when we feel like burning ££ (rarely). However the electric heater does make it warm enough to use in winter.

We inherited our conservatory when we bought the house. I have since joined the conservatory hater group too. And ours have one of those fancy pilkington glass roof. Looks really fab though I have to say.

Oh that is disappointing that the pilkington glass roof doesn't help much. We have just inherited ours with the house and I'm trying to figure out how to make it properly comfortable as there are 3 (!) sets of doors leading on to it - it runs across the entire back of the house. I'm thinking a roof revive type solution. The cost frightens me though! As to not having radiators, I believe that you can have them as long as they are controlled apart from the rest of the heating system - and from what I've read thermostatic valves are ok for this. Easy enough to take the rads out if you need to sell the house and it is an issue though.

Radiator - although we tend not to use the room as much in the winter, so the double doors (which lead into the dining room) are usually closed. When you go in there it's noticeably colder than the rest of the house, but with the doors open it soon warms up.

PS have thought about replacing the roof with a solid one but I like the fact that it feels like an outdoor room with a glass roof. But we must lose shed-loads of heat through it .

Canyouhearme It cost us around £2.5k for Roof Revive to do our ceiling. Not cheap, but cheaper than knocking it down and building a new extension, which was the other option!

This company were cheaper, quoted us around £1400 iirc, but we went with Roof Revive in the end. Our conservatory is about 4mx3m. It now feels like an extension with lots of windows, and very much part of the house. We removed the doors between the two rooms and it works brilliantly for us.

I love our conservatory and never heat it (for reasons given above) and it DOES make the rest of the house much colder. It opens straight out from the kitchen with no doors. But I wouldn't be without it, it's so nice for most of the year.

Thanks Jojay. Must check my lotto numbers!

We're going with Roof Revive soon - will report back :)

Hi all, just wanted to say we've had the roof finished by roof revive & we are very happy :) The conservatory looks fantastic, minimal light lost & it is WARM in there. Just the decorating to do now!

Thanks for reporting back. Is your conservatory UPVC or wood? I'm concerned that the plaster may crack terribly in ours which is UPVC due to the movement with wind and weather!

Underfoot, but it takes forever to heat up the room.

Need a heater to let it be used just after school.

It's UPVC. Before going with roof revive we went to look at a job that was finished 2 years ago & it still looked great with no visible cracks. Obviously it's early days for us though!

Anyone want to see pics just get in touch :)

Just a word of warning to those that have a conservatory that is quite separated from the rest of the house (and cold!) Bear in mind that if you put a radiator in there fed from the central heating, it will turn itself off when the thermostat in the house gets warm. This will leave the conservatory cold (not good) so maybe an electric wall heater might be a good idea in that case! Also choose one with a fan to warm up all of conservatory evenly, and not just warming the ceiling!