[jambutty]

My thermostat is in my small lobby near the front door and across the lobby a couple of yards away is a radiator. Nice planning guys! Actually the electricians (loosely labelled) who re-wired my flat a couple of years ago had nothing to do with the radiator position. It was already in situ. But they were under instructions where to put the thermostat as they were for the smoke alarm.

I could have the mains plugs and light switches wherever I wanted them though but not the light rose in the ceiling.

However the fact that the thermostat is closeish to a radiator doesn’t cause me any problems. My flat does not get overheated nor does it get too cold. I can control the temperature of my living room by proxy so to speak.

It has always puzzled me why central heating installers put the radiators under windows and also one in a small kitchen. My kitchen one is turned off all the time though. But if my bedroom radiator was against an inside wall my bed would have to be under the window because the other two walls are backed with a wardrobe and my desk or the bed would have to be next to the radiator. The living room would present the same sort of problems. Where to put the furniture? However my outside walls are cavity insulated and the windows are modern double glazed so not a great deal of heat is lost. In any case drawing the curtains helps to keep the heat in.