Electric Panel Heaters

Cardew

Jubbs wrote: »

Fridge Freezers, if they are new use between 1 and 2 units a day, if it between 5 and 10 years old or older it can use over 5.

Also if you have panel heaters see if you have an Economy 7 meter, if you dont it might be worth looking at. you could have all your heaters on for 7 hours at night and it would cost you less than a quarter of what it would to run them in the day,

For any fridge freezer to use 5kWh a day(1,825kWh a year) it would have to be faulty.

Why would you use panel heaters on E7? They are not storage heaters!!!

HJS86

Thanks for your replies everyone.

We have no tumble dryer or dish washer.

The panel heaters are 0.75kwh per hour - it says in the manual anyways.

Great advice ) will try reducing the time that the water heater is on. Just by 15 minutes to start with as we reduced it to one hour once and there wasnt enough water for a bath.

It prob is the electric shower that is using lots...so will cut down on shower time.

Its just preference with the bedroom heater - hate being cold on a morning so for us the unit it uses in the morning is worth it.

Don't really have any plug in toys...just use the TV and the freeview box.

Thanks again )

xx

HJS86

Sorry yes we wash at 40-50C twice a week xx

KimYeovil

HJS86 wrote: »

Sorry yes we wash at 40-50C twice a week xx

No need to go to the extremes of only showering twice a week.

Fire_Fox

HJS86 wrote: »

Thanks for your replies everyone.

We have no tumble dryer or dish washer.

The panel heaters are 0.75kwh per hour - it says in the manual anyways.

Great advice ) will try reducing the time that the water heater is on. Just by 15 minutes to start with as we reduced it to one hour once and there wasnt enough water for a bath.

It prob is the electric shower that is using lots...so will cut down on shower time.

Its just preference with the bedroom heater - hate being cold on a morning so for us the unit it uses in the morning is worth it.

Don't really have any plug in toys...just use the TV and the freeview box.

Sorry yes we wash at 40-50C twice a week

Baths tend to use a good deal more water than showers: leave the plug in one time and see. I don't live undressing in the cold either, hence the duvet trick! Are you closing the curtains in the living area? This will hold some additional heat in.

If you don't leave your few toys (TV/ freeview/ computer/ mobile chargers?) on standby then do take a hard look at your lighting situation.

HJS86

lol @ Kim

We share a bath, so hopefully that cancel's out two showers.
I'll have a bath then he'll jump in!

Thanks again for the advice ppl - will try everything and update as to whether its all gone down.

Our neighbours btw must be using all heaters on constantly at the mo as when checking our meter we can see theirs and our one neighbour has used 140 units in 2.5 days!!

xx

Fire_Fox

HJS86 wrote: »

Our neighbours btw must be using all heaters on constantly at the mo as when checking our meter we can see theirs and our one neighbour has used 140 units in 2.5 days!!

xx

Sounds like they enjoy gardening.

HJS86

Well we reduced the water heater by 15 minutes and haven't noticed a difference in terms of lack of hot water so thanks for that one!

Unfortunately our neighbours upstairs must have gone away for the week as the flat is freeeeezing without them!
So haven't noticed a difference in the units as the panel heaters are obviously working a tad harder this week.

Will keep monitoring it though and maybe reduce the water heater by another 10 mins a day.

Does anyone have electric panel heaters on here btw?
I seem to be the only one!

daveyjp

We have electric heaters in the bedrooms set at 1kw output. They are timed to be on for a couple of hours each day and are also on thermostats - of the hour or so they are on, they only produce heat for part of this hour as the thermostat cycles so they aren't that expensive to run. They are set to give a room temp of 18-19 degrees too which is the recommended level for a bedroom.

Do yours have thermostats too? If so turn them down so a bedroom temp of 18 degs is achieved. A new build flat should be well insulated so it shouldn't take much energy to raise the ambient room temp to 18 degrees.

They aren't inefficient at heating as most of the energy you put into them is converted to heat, but the fuel they use is expensive which is why you need to manage how they are used.

HJS86

Thanks for the advice Davey

Unfortunately ours don't have thermostats - its just high or low.

As the flat is normally freezing cold, we have them just below high for the few days a day they are on.

What do you mean by 'the fuel they use'?