I've started working in a big tower in Brum and my office is overheating in February!

There are radiators with TRVs under all the windows but they are mostly off. No air con ducts. The building looks to have been built in the 60's and has obvious thermal bridges at each floor. Walls are only about 250mm so no room for fancy insulation. Windows are single glazed with poorly fitting secondary glazing - i.e. some have come of their runners, some don't close properly. They run 2/3 the height of the room and 80% of wall area. So should be huge heat loss.

Surely this heat can't just be the PC's/monitors and body heat? It's worse in the mornings, until we come in and open the windows :-(

My hunch is that as we're on the 6th floor it's simply heat rising from lower floors. Is this a common problem? If so I dread to think what it will be like May-August :-(

More importantly - how do you solve this assuming your employer isn't planning to move? Get the floor insulated and pass the problem down to the storey below?

Simon.

Agreed. We are on the 4th floor and all 3 below us are currently empty and it is cold in the mornings.

I agree that heat will rise through the building but, I would asume that each floor is seperatly zonedalowing more control throughout the building so it could be that the zone valve or room stat for your floor has malfunctioned, time to call in the maintenance crew for your building
regards
Mike

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