Hallway radiator sizing

[gassed up]

when calculating the correct output for a hallway rad would you measure the hallway and landing separate and add them together as one room or would you just measure up the hallway?

I went onto a couple of rad sizing websites and they give you options to select for different room types and they give you hallway as an option but not landing. The thing is though that if you input the same values and change the room type to say bedroom, the output recommendation does not differ from when you select hallway.

 

[lame plumber]

if you have a rad in the hall and one on the landing do each separately, only one do the lot

 

[gassed up]

I should have mentioned. Radiator in the hallway, none on the landing.

 

[plumben]

Size up the hallway including where the stairs are asif they were not there then size up the landing not including the stairway space size a rad for each space so it equals x and y then get the values separate and add them together last if only having a rad in hallway as there's different values for both ceilings and floors and such

 

[stevetheplumber]

i all ways go over the topfor the hall everyone likes to walk in to a warm hall

 

[lame plumber]

i all ways go over the topfor the hall everyone likes to walk in to a warm hall

not very clever if the room stats in the hall, as it will kill the heating before the main rooms have warmed up! Halls need to be a bit cooler to let the system work.

 

[Ray Stafford]

not very clever if the room stats in the hall, as it will kill the heating before the main rooms have warmed up! Halls need to be a bit cooler to let the system work.

The hall is a completely rubbish place to site the roomstat. 🙂

 

[Ermintrude]

Use room height as the full height from ground floor to celing on second or third . You will be heating the whole space.

 

[lame plumber]

gonna disagree there as its the coolest place in the house normally and the last to warm up, if all the rooms have trvs then they will have knocked off by the time the halls reached temp and off goes the boiler. If the front door opens then on comes the boiler to rewarm the hall seems eminently sensible to me as it has done to others in the past.

if you want your stat in your lounge that has the big rads and door shut, your other rooms are unlikely to warm up in time if you have sized the rads properly and they arent overspecced, but each to their own, you sell em ray and I'll pop em in. 🙂

 

[AWheating]

Living space for me normally. Depends on the use of the rooms. Plenty of people don't enter the property via the hall way. Every job is different.

 

[lame plumber]

Living space for me normally. Depends on the use of the rooms. Plenty of people don't enter the property via the hall way. Every job is different.

who you on about. Santa and his little elves? 🙂

 

[Best]

I like the halls for a room stat. They stay a more constant temperature as not affected by other heat sources as much as living rooms. Remember, TVs, computers, electric or coal or gas fires and people's bodies add heat to a room!
The landings can be a bit different as affected by heat from hall and, as a spark told me, it is better sometimes to have the master bedroom with a room stat. That's obviously providing all the bedroom rads are equally sized correctly.

 

[gassed up]

Use room height as the full height from ground floor to celing on second or third . You will be heating the whole space.

I like this idea for future ref. i suppose as long as the hall and landing floor plans don't differ significantly.