Heating Engineer in Clarkston

An inter-war bungalow has a roof steep enough to stand up in along the middle, and over the decades a large share of the ones in Stamperland and Williamwood have had theirs turned into rooms. The usual shape is a dormer to the front or the back, one or two bedrooms and sometimes a shower room under the ridge, and a staircase where a cupboard or a small bedroom used to be. Some were done decades ago and some recently, and the older ones often have far less insulation in the roof than a conversion done today.

None of these houses had central heating to begin with, and when it came it was laid out for one floor, often with the boiler in the kitchen and the pipes under the floorboards. A conversion added the upstairs radiators to that. The new pipes were usually taken up through the stair partition or a cupboard and then run along the eaves, the triangle of roof space behind the low walls of the new rooms, to reach each radiator. Where that space is outside the insulation, the pipes run through the coldest part of the house.

The rooms themselves lose heat in a different way from the rooms below. A room in a roof has roof on three sides, a dormer with thin side walls, and very little upright wall to hang a radiator on, so radiators end up low and short under the slope. Mo looks at the room and the pipework together before suggesting anything, because a cold dormer bedroom can be air, a radiator too small for the room, or a room losing heat through its own roof, and each needs something different.