Lola style house electrics/heating

I'm trying to find out if Lola houses can have a heating upgrade. The one I've got is very cold and the only way to get it warm is a calor gas fire and using the air-conditioning. Neither really take the chill out of the air. Are there alternatives suitable for a Lola. I've also been told the electrics will need upgrading. Not sure what that means or how expensive. Certainly needs more sockets. If anyone has any tips, suggestions and idea of cost I'd be very grateful.

If you're not happy with a gas fire
or Aircon have a log burner installed or a Pellet fire? Don't think you've got any other options.

Hi, thanks for replying. It's a middle Lola, hard to see where a log burner would go. The gas fire is the portable type. Lots of fumes and seems to cause condensation.

Yes, the portable gas fires do produce a lot of condensation. If you can't have a log burner or pellet fire it'll have to be air con and wearing layers. If you have a closed in staircase put a curtain up, so much draft comes down those stairs. large rugs on the tiles too.

DreamOn wrote:Hi, thanks for replying. It's a middle Lola, hard to see where a log burner would go. The gas fire is the portable type. Lots of fumes and seems to cause condensation.

Lola’s can have pellet or log burners no problem…chimney up through the roof.

We have a Lola and the same issue. We are still on the ol d3.3kw polenta. To install the electric radiators needed to make it warmer I need to upgrade to the 5.2kw polenta. Before they will do that they want an electrician to declare the working capable of doing that - a certificate known as a Boletin I think it’s called. That has variable costs because if the electrician thinks you need a rewire in places that is what you need. €500 on average. And then you are paying more for the standing charge as well. In the end I’ve paused the project due to the jump in energy prices. What we do is shut all the doors, use the air con to warm the front room up and have an electric blanket on the bed. In addition, I’ve had some of the windows changed as they were very old and cold. I’ll upgrade eventually, but only once the energy crisis has abated. But you are right, it never really gets nice and warm. The walls are uninsulated. Great in the summer, terrible in the winter. The heated blanket has been the game changer. Now I can shut the doors and push the heat in the front room up.

We have a Lola house. It is middle terrace so we haven’t an outside wall. We have the moveable gas heater which we find quite adequate. In the really cold weather we close the upstairs doors and downstairs gets quite warm. In an evening we move it nearer to the stairs open the bedroom doors and it takes the chill of the bedrooms, but I don’t mean it makes them very warm. We don’t have a problem with condensation but we do use a dehumidifier sometimes. We had our electrics upgraded a long time ago because the standard electric didn’t seem to cover daily winter use with oven, microwave toaster et.,

Get in touch with Sparks Electrical Service. He will talk you through the electrical options and can do the upgrade from 3.3. We have storage heaters that keep the house nice and warm and use of peak electricity.

billogs wrote:Get in touch with Sparks Electrical Service. He will talk you through the electrical options and can do the upgrade from 3.3. We have storage heaters that keep the house nice and warm and use of peak electricity.

We had a quote from Sparks a few years ago, not only were they very expensive compared to a Spanish company (4 times the cost) but said they couldn't guarantee we would get the upgrade, went to a Spanish company who did the survey as well as the paperwork and was upgraded within a week.

Log or pellet burner, go up through the ceiling to upstairs, then out of upstairs ceiling to the roof.
We have done this and so have friends of ours who have a Lola terrace house. Why heat outside when you can heat upstairs, toasty warm all over fitting them this way