Electric Panel Heaters

daveyjp

Electricity rather than gas. Gas is much cheaper than electricty, but gas appliances aren't more efficient.

You could swap the panel heaters for more controllable wall mounted heaters with timers and thermostats. They aren't that expensive.

Fire_Fox

HJS86 wrote: »

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!

We have Dimplex radiant panel heaters. What ambient temperature do you call freezing? Do you have decent curtains which you close in the evening? Have you looked at your lighting costs yet?

HJS86

Fire_Fox wrote: »

We have Dimplex radiant panel heaters. What ambient temperature do you call freezing? Do you have decent curtains which you close in the evening? Have you looked at your lighting costs yet?

Hi Firefox

We have both blinds and then heavy curtains over the top which made a big difference.

The lighting is all energy saving - bulbs from Ikea, 5KW.

Unfortunately there is now a 60W bulb on for around 6-7 hours a day as my tortoise has just come out of hibernation.

Our electricity usage dropped recently to around 17 units per day.
Yet yesterday it shot up to 30units, I'm attributing it to the cooker - I baked cookies and it was on for about 3 hours so will be more diligent with that in the future!!

Thanks