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Riddle me this: hot room in house

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 22:39

The main bedroom in our house is boiling. We are the type of people who rarely have the heating on in winter and the bedroom window is open all day and night in all weather. I can't explain why this room gets so hot. Can you help?

The attached floor plans are of our mid-terrace house. The neighbours either side have an identical layout.

Bedroom 1 is our room, it's north facing, and boiling hot.
Bedroom 2 is the spare room and south facing. It's lovely and cool.

All rooms in the house are painted matt white and have wooden floors. Only the hall / stairs have carpet. I like minimalist with accent colours!

I cannot with out what's going on. Can anyone help? DH had taken to sleeping in the other room....

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 22:39

Pictures help!

Riddle me this: hot room in house
Riddle me this: hot room in house
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MimpiDreams · 31/05/2018 22:42

Is there a breeze blowing from the south?

joajo · 31/05/2018 22:43

are the neighbours doing something in the room next door that would keep it really hot in there (running heating equipment for osmething) and the heat is transferring across somehow?

or are there pipes running through the walls that might keep it hotter?

Mybabystolemysanity · 31/05/2018 22:43

Wierd. We have a new build bungalow that has a really hot living room, but it faces south so understandable. The south facing bedroom is never so warm. Could it be to do with ventilation?

mrsshelby44 · 31/05/2018 22:44

Maybe your ndn have a weed farm in the room next to yours??

Singlenotsingle · 31/05/2018 22:45

I can only think maybe the neighbours have heating of some sort, which comes through your shared wall?

user546425732 · 31/05/2018 22:45

One of our bedrooms is warmer because the pipes for the boiler inexplicably go under the floor so it's heated when we are running hot water.

B1rdonawire · 31/05/2018 22:45

Your compass is backwards?! Other bedroom is single-glazed? One bedroom cavity wall insulated and the other not? Radiator thermostat is bust in your bedroom? Boiler (yours or next door's) against bedroom wall? Neighbour has weed farm on adjoining wall or loft?!

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 22:49

Shared wall in main bedroom is a 4yo's bedroom. No pipes at the front of the house that I'm aware of. Boiler definitely off. Neighbours windows open as much as ours are, and we know them, so doubt cannabis farm!

Breeze - AFAIK it various through the whole house. Every window and the garden doors have been open since 2pm today, but not the front door due to animal escape routes. Main bedroom noticeably hotter than all other rooms in the house!

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 22:52

Cavity wall - don't know that one, will look into it. Whole house double glazed. Fairly sure the sun comes up in the usual place Grin

Hot water pipes - our heating doesn't come on when the hot water runs (combi boiler). No thermostat in the house at all.

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PianoThirty · 31/05/2018 22:54

Do you have a hot water tank (as opposed to an on-demand combi boiler), and is that hot water tank insulated? If it’s not insulated, it’s radiating heat into the rest of the house. It should be possible to insulate it fairly easily - either do it yourself or ask a plumber for advice.

Failing that, could it be the neighbours? Are they running a cannabis farm indoors?

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 22:57

No hot water tank.

Neighbours 4yo not keeping cannabis factory in his bedroom!

Will check with them where their boiler is, but think it's in their kitchen, same as ours.

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Littletreefrog · 31/05/2018 22:57

I was thinking weed farm as well.

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 23:01

I'm also an ex police officer, so no, I'm certain there are no cannabis farms.... sorry to disappoint! 😂

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WhispersOfWickedness · 31/05/2018 23:09

When I started uni, I spent a very warm first night in halls before I realised that the radiators in the kitchen, which was the other side of the wall to my bedroom, were on full blast. Have the neighbours got a radiator on your side of the 4yo's bedroom?

clumsyduck · 31/05/2018 23:11

My bedroom is the same

Heat rises and maybe your bedroom door is closed but kids left open ?

SalveGrumio · 31/05/2018 23:12

How can your boiler be off and no hot water tank? How do you get hot water?

Is the loft insulation evenly distributed. In our old house we had loads piled over done room which was baking. We spread it out which helped.

MismatchedPJs · 31/05/2018 23:17

Is the 4yo in the neighbours' smallest bedroom, so houses all have their front doors on the left? I vote neighbours keep their house crazy warm, but you don't notice heat coming through their hall/landing and bathroom because those areas don't tend to be as warm as living areas (clutching at straws!)

I just can't get my head round being the "sort of people" who don't use their heating in winter. We're the sort of people who do use their heating, and we don't leave windows open all day either, and our bedrooms get down to 12 degrees in winter. How cold do you like it - are your temp settings just way off from the rest of us?

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SilverHairedCat · 31/05/2018 23:34

@SalveGrumio a combi boiler. Instant hot water.

Only DH, cat, dog and me in the house. All internal doors open at all times.

House rarely goes below 16c, even in winter. I do run at a different temperature and have a tendency to overheat, however I think I was illustrating that perhaps the mid-terrace insulation is a little too warm for our needs?

I'll ask about the neighbour's kids room and the heater location. However, they also have their bedroom windows open at night.

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Kismett · 01/06/2018 00:22

@MismatchedPJs in our last place, I could probably count on one hand the number of times we put the heat on in the winter. It wasn't this past winter, it was the one before so it was milder. But our house was boiling in the summer and so warm in the winter, we almost had windows open year round. It was a modern build with two shared walls.

Current house is also fairly modern but so much colder! Heating bills this winter were a bit of a shock.

Racecardriver · 01/06/2018 00:28

Our house has really bad ventilation where the master bedroom is really hot and the other two bedrooms are cold.

SimonBridges · 01/06/2018 00:33

I have the same problem.
North facing bed room, no direct sunlight. Always the warmest room in the house.

HappyGirl86 · 01/06/2018 01:03

We have this problem too. We are detached and below our bedroom is a room that was our garage that we converted into a room. Our bedroom is crazy hot. I can go into the next room and it is much cooler.
I'd love to know why!

FrangipaniBlue · 01/06/2018 01:17

My house is similar layout only difference is that we have neighbours one side and we build a two storey extension on the other.

Your b3 is in the same position as my DS room and it is ALWAYS hot!!

Are your stairs open plan? Mine are and I'm convinced it's the heat rising and going into his room as his door is closest to the top of the stairs.

wrongway · 01/06/2018 01:20

Could it be downlights in the lounge down stairs heating up the floor of the bedroom?