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Hi there

Can anyone help with how to model up Winter Gardens for TM59? Should they be drawn as an unheated room? This then makes the wall between the apartment and the Winter Garden an internal wall with internal windows, and the uninsulated wall around the Winter Garden an external wall.

Many thanks

Ellen

Hi

My view would be to model the room as a room like any other room i.e. heated (although of course the heating will be off). It should have the fabric properties as designed, as should the rooms within (as you describe). But I would model its opening window(s) as always open from May to September, effectively as holes, (and not dependent on occupancy - as this is not an occupied space). This will model it's heat gain/losses, and its heat transfer effects on the occupied rooms within, as close to reality as possible. I think that not modelling the space at all, as if it wasn't there, would be asking for trouble down the line.

Wasted