Anyone used Rointe heaters?

dizzysaur

I had a browse on there website.
It just confused me and hurt my brain.

I still can't see how these are worth it. They do exactly the same thing as my £50 fan heater with digital thermostat & programmer.

All the maths and stuff did not make sense.

Cardew

flitch wrote: »

Whilst I'm not a chartered electrical engineer, we've recently had some first-hand experience of these heaters which you may find helpful...

About 18 months ago we project managed the refurbishment of a farmhouse which was heated by storage radiators. Due to the remote location central heating options were limited to: renewing the storage heaters on the existing Economy 7 tariff, oil-fired central heating, propane gas, electric flow boiler on an Economy 10 tariff, solid fuel and Rointe radiators. A renewable energy source wasn't an option due to various factors.

After a great deal of research, cost estimates and feedback from other clients we opted for Rointe heaters. The Economy 7 meter was removed and a standard rate meter was installed. The Rointe heaters have proved to be very good indeed and have resulted in a reduction in annual electricity costs by circa 20%.

However, anyone considering these heaters MUST consider a number of factors before they commit - shop around for the lowest possible standard rate tariff, make sure the heaters are correctly sized for the rooms they are to heat (if they're under-sized they'll be on constantly), consider the construction and location of the building when sizing the radiators (old buildings have a much higher rate of heat loss than modern buildings), ensure that the thermal insulation levels are as high as possible (we didn't need to upgrade the insulation on this project so we can make a direct comparison) and make sure that each individual radiator is programmed to suit the room it is in.

What the tenant has found is that when the radiators come on they heat the room up very quickly so tweaking the switch-on times for each room will pay dividends. Personally I think this is the main reason for the saving in running costs as each radiator can be programmed independently to suit occupation levels and times of use.

Hope you find this helpful.

Welcome to the forum(as a poster). Some questions if I may.

Firstly may we ask why you, as yet another first time poster, wanted to especially sing the praises of Rointe heaters?

Secondly when you say 'we project managed' - who are 'we'? It would be interesting to look up your firm.

What research led you to reject, say, oil fired CH where costs are in the region of 6p/kWh in favour of standard rate electricity at around 12p/kWh - which would also be needed to heat hot water. Some references to that research would be most enlightening.

Ditto, to reject storage heating? especially as domestic hot water would be heated at off peak rates.

I appreciate you are not a 'chartered electrical engineer' but can you explain why electrical heaters must be sized correctly for the room?

If a room requires, say, 2.5kW to maintain the temperature at xxC with an outside temp of yyC, what is the problem with having a 3kW heater(s)? All heaters are thermostatically controlled so both heaters(the 2.5kW or 3.0kW) would consume the same kWh to produce the same heat.

What specifically made you chose Rointe heaters and not much cheaper electrical heaters?

Can you please provide the cost of all the Rointe heaters for the project

Lastly can you please provide some data on the farmhouse - rooms/heating requirement etc etc?

Richie-from-the-Boro

I have noticed, not only the fact that all 'promoters' or salesman are not only first time posters, but have existing / redundant / dormant accounts waiting to be re-opened.

penrhyn

Sleepers on the MSE forum, who pays the ferryman?

Richie-from-the-Boro

penrhyn wrote: »

Sleepers on the MSE forum, who pays the ferryman?

HiYa penrhyn,

I haven't actually bothered looking each one up but 5 or 6 since Christmas, all in two contentious areas (1) Green Deal and (2) all 6 of the 'infrared' brand heating threads.

Sleepers, masqueraders pseudonyms strawmen and smurfs etc I get - what's the ferryman .. .. ?

Cardew

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Sleepers, masqueraders pseudonyms strawmen and smurfs etc I get - what's the ferryman .. .. ?

Isn't it something to do with Greek Mythology - the deceased pay the Ferryman to transport them to a new life? or something like that.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Cardew wrote: »

Isn't it something to do with Greek Mythology - the deceased pay the Ferryman to transport them to a new life? or something like that.

HiYa Cardew,

Brian the crooner Ferry & the Rodgers & Hammerstein's remake by Gerry and the Pacemakers is about as close as a BoroLad scruff gets to the myth of Charons Obol, which was penrhyn's question of who placed in the mouth of 'flitch'

Both yourself and Penrhyn are of course correct. It will be interesting to see if flitch gets back to the group and responds to your reasonable questions. If s/he does we will all be enlightened.

Notcheapdownhere

Hey there,
Definite newbie here and I'm not a brain surgeon etc.
I've been following this thread all afternoon after researching rointe heaters that have been recommended.
This has all come from my Electricity bill.
I'm on a BDX tariff which seems pretty good as the times I have electricity are between 7pm and 11pm plus 4.30am to 2.30pm (need to confirm this).
I have 4 storage heaters on between these times and when I queried my high electricity bill, the electricity board said it was cause the heaters weren't set up properly or needed replacing because they weren't economic due to age.
After reading about a £10 heater heating the room the same as £1000 heater, how can they not be economic ?
If they do need replacing, any suggestions to what? (No gas, 3 bed semi)

penrhyn

Nu storage heaters.

Notcheapdownhere

That's it?
New storage heaters?