Heating for Kitchen

[VonHaus]

We live in a Victorian terraced house with a 1980s extension at the back. The kitchen is in the extension and it joins an open plan dining room (no wall in between). There was a radiator in the dining room section and one in the kitchen.

We recently had a new kitchen fitted. To make more room for storage (it’s a small kitchen) we removed the kitchen radiator entirely. Our thinking was it never actually got that hot (it was ancient) and that the dining room radiator could heat the whole room.

We love the kitchen but were wrong about the radiator. The kitchen is often very cold now and the dining room radiator (which itself is pretty old) doesn’t get anywhere near it.

We’re considering solutions. Obviously we can get a portable heater but I don’t think that’s anything other than a stop gap. We could replace the dining room radiator with something newer and more powerful. Or we could find another solution (though not sure what it is).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Easiest is probably just a bigger radiator in dining end.

Do a heat calculator ( or get plumber to), based on m3 of your entire room you need to heat. That will give what min kw radiator you need to buy. Can go taller, wider, or deeper ( or a combination)

Thank you - that definitely seems like the most practical solution. I’ll look into doing a heat calculator.

An air to air heat pump would allow you to mount the internal unit on the wall or even the ceiling, so you don't have to sacrifice floor level storage.

Could you retrofit an electric plinth heater under the cupboards?

Or how about one of those wall-mounted electric bar things with a dangly string which glows orange when it's on? Old people used to have them in bathrooms.