Temperature in conservatory / sun lounge

[Lm1981]

We have a sun lounge. It has solid roof (pitched), 1 full wall and rest is dwarf wall with windows. It does have a radiator in there. The temp does drop quickly in there. I have just checked temp as it’s down to 13 degrees with humidity at 65% - just curious if anyone has any feedback on temp of their conservatory or sun lounge?

It's a conservatory. It's to stop plants from being damaged by frost.

If it doesn't get below freezing no problem.

Sitting in my oak framed conservatory right now. Glass roof and 2 glass walls. It’s my kitchen. So it’s perfectly usable. Humidity - very little. It’s open to two other areas of the house. We have underfloor heating. Also lots of solar panels feeding air source heat pumps. You need better construction and heating to make it usable.

Are you confusing a conservatory with a greenhouse 🧐

Mine is lovely and warm, less than 12 months old though, well insulated and has a radiator in.

No ,I'm not. Why do you think it's called a conservatory if not to conserve frost tender plants.

If you want to be even more pretentious if you're not using an orangery to grow citrus trees its either a very old orangery that's been repurposed or it ain't an orangery.

Call it a sun room if you must.

@VeniVidiWeeWee goodness you sound a fun person to spend time with 😂

I dont know the specifics of what makes a conservatory, orangary, sun room etc, Im sure someone will think there is a massive differnece but whatever we have, we have one wall is the back of the house, one wall has half a window up high, other two 'walls' are full glass, glass roof, we have a portable radiator in there and its cold until we turn that on and then we can get the temperature up to around 19 after half hour

Its usable all year round that way

What portable heater do people use and are there any ones that are not to expensive to run?

We've got a room that sounds similar. It's not well insulated at all. We've got thermal floor length curtains that we close as soon as it starts to get dark and they make a difference to the temperature. The room has a radiator under the window and sometimes we run an oil radiator if it's feeling cold.
It's 17 in there right now.

We just have an oil filled rad, they're on wheels. It sits down the side of the sofa, neat and tidy out of sight

Our room is only about 10x12 though, I think if you have a bigger room you need a few of them probably

@Lm1981 Portable heaters and cheap running costs don’t exist. What really matters is construction and heat loss. If it’s cheap construction you won’t retain heat. Glass type is important too. I’ve had an older conservatory with radiators and they don’t warm the space up enough in winter. Under floor heating gives you a chance but undersized radiators do not work in winter in a room with significant heat loss.