Night storage heaters - any good?

shegar

Inactive wrote: »

Same here, and no service charges, no ugly pipework.:)

I can easy put up with a few pipes around the skirting boards for what you get out of gas central heating. Also it cost approx £60 per year for the boiler to be serviced at that price you really cant grumble .

shegar

GrannyKnits wrote: »

Hi Astara we moved in to our house 18 months ago. The village has no gas so it was a choice between oil-fired ch or storage heaters. This is 2nd winter and i still can't get used to them. Down-side is you need to be able to guess weather in advance. If you wack heat up at night and it's warm next day then you're v.warm and vise versa. They are better now than years ago but....

We have a large one in lounge which i keep turned up high and it is really warm. The one in hall is on all time too but hardly any heat at all. I keep BR doors open so any heat from it goes upstairs. The ones in each bedroom we rarely have on as DS and DD say it gives them dry/sore throats/blocked noses. :undecided The heat is very dry. (These were all new when we moved in).
Given a choice i would go for CH every time but as you only have them in bedroom this may not be too much of problem. You would deffin. need some other form of heating downstairs and could prob. get away with the ones in BR's. Hope this helps, Granny

They say its best to have a small bowl of water to take away the dryness that storage heaters chuck out, I had a asthmatic son when we had storage heaters he too suffered with the dryness , causing constant coughing , as for leaving the bedroom doors open , theres normally not enough heat in the one room to heat that alone without trying to make it go into another room .:mad:I hate storage heating ..

Owain_Moneysaver

Storage heaters are inappropriate in bedrooms. They are intended to be used in living rooms for slow heat output throughout the day, with an electric fire or duoheat-type boost in the evenings, with convector (panel) heaters for early morning and evening use in the bedrooms (preferably on timers).

Even if you have to bring gas in from the street, it may add more to the value of the house that it costs to install gas CH.

OTOH storage heaters can be perfectly adequate if sized and used correctly in a well-insulated property.

You are not restricted to an electric instantaneous shower - you can have a mains pressure shower that is as good as a combi provided you have a large enough hot water cylinder heated on off-peak leccy.

Astara

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Storage heaters are inappropriate in bedrooms. They are intended to be used in living rooms for slow heat output throughout the day, with an electric fire or duoheat-type boost in the evenings, with convector (panel) heaters for early morning and evening use in the bedrooms (preferably on timers).

Even if you have to bring gas in from the street, it may add more to the value of the house that it costs to install gas CH.

OTOH storage heaters can be perfectly adequate if sized and used correctly in a well-insulated property.

You are not restricted to an electric instantaneous shower - you can have a mains pressure shower that is as good as a combi provided you have a large enough hot water cylinder heated on off-peak leccy.

Yes it does seem strange that they are in the bedroom! Not sure how well insulated the flat is but will find out about gas supply.