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Cheers for the various thoughts on my place.
I got a little electric heater the other day to try and warm it up without ending up bankrupt and have been pondering what that suggests.
Turned it on in the living room yesterday morning and it got the living room up 6 degrees from 14 to 20 in about 90 minutes (my central heating hasn't been able to get it to that temperature). Turning it off though and the temperature drops pretty quickly, back down to 14 in about two and a half hours and continues below that.
Issue seems twofold, with central heating not able to heat the rooms and rooms losing too much heat (although I imagine solving the second problem would help to fix the first).
Not sure how external insulation would work on the end wall. The other side of the wall is the pavement so don't know whether I would be able to go over any further (or how thick external insulation is).
Temperature in the loft seems to remain fairly uninfluenced by whether the heating is on so I don't think I'm losing too much heat there. My double glazing is pretty shonky so may be an issue there.
Undecided whether to get a thermal camera and try and work out what is going on myself or trying to get someone in. I've contacted a few companies but I suspect everyone probably wants this doing at the moment.