Anyone used Rointe heaters?

KerryHenderson70

Hi there,
We were considering Rointe, but my neighbour has tried them and was not impressed. So, we decided to question them, since we had seen various things about them like this thread and a Facebook page called Unhappy With Rointe and complaints to the ASA etc etc. Give them a chance to clear their name, so to speak.
We asked them about the difference between their old K radiators and the new, improved Kyros.
After waiting over two days for an answer, someone called [TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM] got back to us - I am guessing from the pigeon English that she is Spanish - no offense to Spanish people, it's just that it was really hard to make head nor tail of what she was babbling on about.
Loads of really questionable (and REALLY aggressive when I questioned their claims) stuff came out which we are going to pass to the Facebook page manager, but the "What is Fuzzy Logic?" answers were SO GOOD I just had to share them here. She made three attempts in the three emails she exchanged with us:

[TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM]

All 'definitions' word-for-word from the emails and SIC applies!

I have also been informed that this person IS THE BOSS!!! :eek:

Obviously we have ruled them out completely following their horrible emails and extremely FUZZY LOGIC (boom boom!)

Bonus by-the-way: they indicated that if anyone but them calculates how many of their over-priced (IMHO) radiators you need, the calculation is unreliable. Might pass that little gem on to their distributors and "official installers".

What a crock!

Smiley_Dan

Davesnave wrote: »

Snarlin wrote:

My bungalow is a 1950's with no insulation so I think I'm doing alright

If that's true, then you are not doing all right at all, you're doing it all wrong!

Even those in rented properties can get free insulation.

If I could add 10,000 "thanks", I would.

dogsgonads

New to this, have had a good read over the past few hours then jumped to the end.. not sure if anyone is still on this thread but could do with some advice from the experts please. We're soon to move to a detached bungalow in Cumbria, which has an old smelly oil boiler and a poorly installed oil tank The rads, water tank and pipework are maybe 30 years old. A heating engineer had a look an condemned the whole system. At our current home we have mains gas CH on a combi boiler and use this for hot water but very rarely use the CH side. We have a wood burning stove in the lounge so don't mind a cold house apart from really cold days and we like a cold bedroom.


We are going to make the living area in Cumbria (lounge, kitchen and dining room) open plan = half the floor area of the bungalow and to heat this with a double sided log burner, which we will keep going 24 hours if needs be (we have 21m3 of logs!). This leaves 3 bedrooms and a bathroom/wc. So we're thinking of taking out and not replacing the boiler, but doing the following:


Hot water - electric shower and similar local on-demand electric heaters for the bathroom sink and kitchen sink


Bathroom - electrically heated towel rad on a thermostat


Bedrooms - cheap wall mounted electric fan assisted convector heaters with simple thermostat to switch on for some instant heat if really required, or if we have a visitor.


I guess we will have a higher than usual electric bill but will not have to pay for oil and boiler maintenance. We are looking into insulation improvements and solar PV.


Anyone's thoughts on our course of action and on suitable elec on-demand heaters and elec showers that deliver a good rate of flow, as well as fan assisted convector heaters would be appreciated.

Cardew

dogsgonads wrote: »

I guess we will have a higher than usual electric bill but will not have to pay for oil and boiler maintenance. We are looking into insulation improvements and solar PV.


Anyone's thoughts on our course of action and on suitable elec on-demand heaters and elec showers that deliver a good rate of flow, as well as fan assisted convector heaters would be appreciated.

Welcome to the forum.


No point in repeating the many posts about electrical heating and production of Hot water. However suffice to say that heating with electricity on a 24/7 tariff is the most expensive method available.


It is also pertinent to point out the oil is now the cheapest it has ever been; roughly the same price as gas i.e. 30p/litre = 3p/kWh


Edit.
Should also point out that oil boilers are often installed externally and removal of CH will inevitably reduce the value of your property.

markrowe999

Came across this thread, as we are getting solar panels next month, and the EPC survey guy mentioned these rointe heaters. Obviously won't be investigating any further now, so thanks all. We're getting a solarboost plus installed at the same time as the panels, which will heater the water tank using the immersion heater, with the spare electricity we generate. It has a secondary output which it sends power to if the immersion thermostat decides the water is hot. I was wondering about putting small storage heater onto this output. Asked installers, who said nobody had ever asked that before, and so they contacted manufacturers, who say it's never been tested. My logic = if sun is shining, house demand is low, and water has heated to max, then spare watts going to a small storage heater could then be released in the early evening. Thoughts?

matelodave

Looks like spam to me

SteveH2

In reply to Marks question about using spare PV generated electricity to charge up storage heater.
As you know the more electricity you can use from your PV panels and thereby avoid sending to the grid, the better so, yes, it makes perfect sense to use any spare to charge up a night storage heater. Assuming that the said heater is being used exclusively with the PV panels it would be a straightforward job. If, however, it is connected to your off-peak grid supply you would need an electrician to come up with a way of enabling you to switch between PV feed and the off-peak grid feed.
We use a similar set up but direct spare electricity to an underfloor heating system (which, of course, means that the electricity is not 'saved' until later as it would be with a night storage heater).
Hope that helps.

Nan2

Came across this thread when searching for heating solutions for our office. Rointe has been recommended by an electrician, can anyone recommend the best option for electric heating of a building for office use? We need a steady temp through the day, something timed so it's not taking long to heat up at the start of the day, a setting for evenings & weekends when the building is not occupied and something that is reasonably priced to install and run. I'm trying to source the best option but can't quite get my head around it all so and 'idiot' proof explanation would be great. Ta x

Richie-from-the-Boro

Nan2 wrote: »

Came across this thread when searching for heating solutions for our office. Rointe has been recommended by an electrician, can anyone recommend the best option for electric heating of a building for office use? We need a steady temp through the day, something timed so it's not taking long to heat up at the start of the day, a setting for evenings & weekends when the building is not occupied and something that is reasonably priced to install and run. I'm trying to source the best option but can't quite get my head around it all so and 'idiot' proof explanation would be great. Ta x

All electrical resistive heating is 100% efficient at point of use, never more never less. Any panel type heater with a thermostat and timer will do. You would not need an expensive electrician to switch on your kettle I assume so plug them in yourself - £50 and 5 minutes work and sorted. Best of luck.

Cardew

Exactly as above. Above all remember that any electrical heater, from a £10 fan heater, to a heater filled with any substance known to man costing £1,000+, will produce EXACTLY the same amount of heat, for the same running cost.


If it is particularly cold a 3kW fan heater costing £10 from Argos will supplement the panel heaters for an hour or so.