How to push heat in to another room

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CoolaBoola

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I have a toilet downstairs without a radiator, it’s always cold in there, when heating the rest of the house that room doesn’t heat up. Once open the door it cools down all the halway, and keeping the door open whilst heating blocks the entrance to kitchen. Can I install vents top and bottom of wall or door to get heat circulating from Galway in to toilet or are there any other options to get heat in to the room?
 
Can you rehang the door so it opens a different way?

Our door from the kitchen to the dining room used to open into the dining room and block off a chunk of the room. I re hung it to open into the kitchen and it now backs up to the oven unit so blocks nothing.
 
You will need a very strong fan to push air all the way from Galway:)

Do you have a socket in the toilet? stick an electric radiator in it.
 
CoolaBoola said:
I have a toilet downstairs without a radiator, it’s always cold in there, when heating the rest of the house that room doesn’t heat up. Once open the door it cools down all the halway, and keeping the door open whilst heating blocks the entrance to kitchen. Can I install vents top and bottom of wall or door to get heat circulating from Galway in to toilet or are there any other options to get heat in to the room?
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IR lamp.The lavatory seat will still be cold though.
 
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My grandfather had a thing on the bathroom wall above the sink, a sort of combination light and miniature 3 bar electric fire, worked with a pull cord, a light..and an electric fire..in one...for the bathroom, genius, this was before people got electrocuted of course.
 
Alan22 said:
My grandfather had a thing on the bathroom wall above the sink, a sort of combination light and miniature 3 bar electric fire, worked with a pull cord, a light..and an electric fire..in one...for the bathroom, genius, this was before people got electrocuted of course.
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As a child, I remember there being a 2kW radiant heater on the wall above teh bath with a long pull cord. As you stood up from the bath, pull the cord to turn it on and you were warmed when drying. All before showers.


What are the modern rules about one in a WC?
 
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This upload_2024-1-26_10-2-57.png was the traditional way to heat a small space. It does depend how well insulated a simple tungsten bulb may be enough. You can it seems still get them and even ones designed for the job shown here not sure I would want that option, but depends how cold. I have a small radiator in my toilet, but the utility room is unheated, the washing machine and tumble drier seem to produce enough heat though.

I find my heating has completely changed since getting kittens. We are leaving doors open so they do not scratch at carpets, so rooms are swapping heat around.
 
That takes me back some years, 1970's our house has gas hot air heating, with vents in all doors so air could return to furnace, can't really call it a boiler when it had no water.

However I can see a problem with venting a toilet into main house, specially if any vegetarians live in the house.
 
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