New Flat / No Mains Gas

Sarujima3

Hi All,

I'm about to move into a flat which I own (have owned for a few years) The flat was built in the 70's, and as I believe was the fashion at the time it only has mains electricity (no gas)

Currently it has Economy 7 meters and night storage heaters. Water is courtesy of a twin element immersion heater in a big lagged tank.

Now that we're firmly into the 21st Century I was wondering if there are more effective ways of heating both flats and domestic water without the benefits of gas boilers?

I was thinking of skipping the enormous and very ugly night storage heaters in favour of underfloor electric heating and have been trying to find some kind of instant electric hot water system that does away with the need for the big tank of "warmish" water.

Any thoughts / experiences greatly appreciated.

penrhyn

Modern storage heaters are neither huge or ugly, personal taste I suppose.
Its your money, if you want to heat your property using day rate electricity go right ahead.

Cardew

As implied above, there is no more expensive way of heating than using daytime electricity rates.

The exception is getting an Air Source Heat Pump system - but they are often difficult to fit with flats.

If your tank is well lagged, the cost of lost heat will not be high when it is heated at E7 rates. In any case for much of the year that 'lost' heat is not wasted as it heats the flat.