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My main concern now is my daughters room. I believe bthey have have undersized the radiator as it's only 600 X 600. It's stelrad compact K2 I believe. Output is 3100 BTU. Room size is 14.25 by 11.25 ft.
Room has two external walls and one of these has a French door leading to balcony which is around 2m by 2m in size.
Problem is I don't think they will ever change the size of the radiator.
Open Plan will be ok as we also cook there.
Post 22, always the starting point !!!Don't take any more old crap about this from them, ask for the heatloss calculations for your property so you can see what is require & ask them once again to install them as per the designs.
Not necessary at all .Yes it matters return should be at the bottom so when the water cools it flows into the return
Having the return from the Top certainly made a big difference in the few tests I carried out over 3 years agoNot necessary at all .
One of the biggest myths of small bore heating . TBOE doesn’t care what the configuration is and the so called “ traditional wisdom” of putting the return at the bottom or lower pipework is flawed.
Correctly as you state , as the hot flow gives up it’s heat it becomes less buoyant more dense and will sink , but there is no counter convective interaction and although the efficacy is improved with TBOE , it would improve further with Hot flow at bottom return at top . Why ? Because it created counter flow , which is far more efficient in mixing flows and therefore gives greater thermal efficiency and efficacy . Heat from the convective sense naturally wants to rise . It will of course give up heat becoming cooler and want to fall back down . If the hot feed is at bottom, it counter flows and blends far better . The remaining heat wants to rise anyway so it’s sensible to return from the top , not forgetting it’s still relatively hot and the useful heat exchange has taken place in the rad.
All large heat exchangers function with counter flow
It seems pretty clear that convection just won't work properly in any system with the return on the top. In the BTOE there are 8 readings between 45C and 38C, the flow just seems to flow upwards to the top of the rad and then partially short circuits out the other end whereas in the other two it flows along the top of the rad and then drops down in parallel flow paths and out the return, (makes sense I suppose).View attachment 37636
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