rented office is freezing

[m3sye]

Just rented out a new 1500 sq ft office and the heating they have in (Electric) is sh*te. It needs to be on for 8 hours just to get it up to min working temp of 16c.

Where do I stand with this seeing as it was provided by the landlord?
Do they have to do anything about it or is it just a case of I will have to buy some Oil Heaters?

[Eric Mc]

Who pays for the heating, you or the landlord?

[Engineer1]

Are they storage heaters? or electric radiators? If they are storage heaters they will need time to heat up potentially overnight.

[singlecoil]

If it's an average lease then you are stuffed, the LL willl simply say you should have checked for yourself that all the equi[pment was working satisfactorily. If on the other hand it's on a licence, threaten to move out after giving what ever notice is required.

[Brink]

Use fan heaters.


OR


Get a replica of the Top-Gear-V8 made. Start that up in the office and all the secretaries will start stripping.

[Ash 996 GT2]

Brink said:

Use fan heaters.


OR


Get a replica of the Top-Gear-V8 made. Start that up in the office and all the secretaries will start stripping.

If you do this I will do your IT for nothing

[JustinP1]

m3sye said:

Just rented out a new 1500 sq ft office and the heating they have in (Electric) is sh*te. It needs to be on for 8 hours just to get it up to min working temp of 16c.

Where do I stand with this seeing as it was provided by the landlord?
Do they have to do anything about it or is it just a case of I will have to buy some Oil Heaters?

1) Argos.

2) 2Kw fan heater. £15.

3) Not hot enough, go back to 1)

[singlecoil]

1500sq ft is a big office, do you need to heat all the space, right away? Any possibility of partitions?

As said above, fan heaters are the way to go, but you will need a few for that much space, especially if the insulation isn't very good.

[m3sye]

Eric- I pay for the heating! So i guess from that its a case of unlucky and you will have to leave it on.

They are Electric raidiators, I tested them but only to see if they worked not to see if they warmed the room up (there are lots)
I can see from this only option is to buy 3 or 4 oil heaters!

The main room is around 1000sq ft and the other 500 divided into 3, they are not so bad.

[singlecoil]

m3sye said:

I can see from this only option is to buy 3 or 4 oil heaters!

No, not oil heaters, too slow. Do what several people have suggested and get fan heaters.

[GuinnessMK]

I'd be very careful just adding fan heaters into the office.

You'll need them PAT testing at the very least. Then you don't want to overload the circuits. A 2kw heater at 230 volts is 8amps. Your sockets are probably only on 32 amp breakers, and if you add up all the computers / phones / chargers etc already plugged in, you might not have a lot of spare capacity.

To be honest, I think you are going to have to have the heating you have on 24/7 to try to keep the place reasonable.

How long is the lease for? Is it going to be boiling hot in the summer? Might be worth getting some quotes for a A/C system that will do heating and cooling?

[davidjpowell]

Are you sure it's not on Economy 7 - i.e. meant to be left on overnight to provide heat the next day?