Best Electric Heating system

Soul_Survivor

Hi all

Have often been on here searching and learning but just joined and this is my first post!

My partner and I and looking to replace our heating system in our bungalow. At the moment it's a rather unique electric ceiling heating system which baffles people everytime we tell them about it! It's not very cost effective or very good, well it's ok when you stand up but the heat doesn't come very far down the room!

We don't have gas in the and the cost of this getting this fitted is ruling this option out so we're looking for the best electric heating system.

We've been reccommended Rointe digital thermal oil system but are wondering if there any alternatives out there or indeed if anyone else has this and would reccommend it

We will need 5 rads, 2 medium sized ones in the kitchen/diner a large on in the lounge and 2 more medium sized ones bedrooms plus a heated towel rail in the bathroom.

Many thanks
Dan

moonrakerz

Just had a look at the Rointe site - a lot of half truths and meaningless waffle !

An electric heater of any type is 100% efficient. So 2kW heater from Focus for £16.99 will produce exactly the same amount of heat as a £300 2kW heater from Rointe. It may not look as nice, but do you want a heater or a work of art ?
Also in one range of radiators, the largest one they make is 1600W - as a heater next to useless - except in a cupboard perhaps.

The site says in big letters - "60% energy saving" - over what ?

"Low consumption heating" - true, a 330W radiator will have a relatively low consumption of electricity, but it wont produce much heat either!! As much as three old fashioned light bulbs - and you got lots of light with those as well !

First thing to do is make sure your home is well insulated: loft well lagged, no draughts, heavy lined curtains.

Electric heating is the cheapest to install, by far - but is also the most expensive to run, by far. You will have to try and judge one cost against the other.

BUT:- steer well clear of things like Rointe if you want cheap(ER) electric heating.

skelly01

Hi,

I have a new build house, 2 years old. There is no mains gas. What we have installed is a wet electric heating system, with your typical radiators. This is heated via a slim electric boiler (Stelrad). It is a 4 bed house and throughout the year we pay £75.00 for all our electricity. What I don't know is how much this costs to install.
As for efficiency I agree with the previous op that they are 100% efficient.
What you would need is an economy 10 tarriff. This is similar to economy 7, but instead of only giving you cheaper electricity at night it gives you various periods. Ours is early morning, early evening and a period through the night.
Overall I find it very good and it heats up as quick as our previous property which was gas.
Just as a point have you considered an LPG system or oil? I do know that calor were offering free boilers if you changed from electricity, again I do not know costs or anything associated.
Hope this helps a little

dogshome

Hi skelly01 - £75 a year for Elec in an electrically heated 4 bed house ! You seem to have found the Holy Grail.
Please post full details of your system - or is the £75 a typo?

skelly01

No the £75.00 is not a typo what I did not make clear is that figure is per month spread over the year, as I said its a 4 bed house (NEW) and is very well insulated. This year our heating has been off from April and is still not back fully on.
The details are that it is a 9kW Amptec electric flow boiler. It is operated via a digital programmer. All radiators in the house have thermostatic valves fitted. It is an unvented system.
As previously posted I am delighted with its performance, I think the key might be having the economy 10 meter as we are very careful to do most of our washing cooking etc etc during these times.

Soul_Survivor

Thanks for the information, I know nothing about heating systems or even where to start so this is all good info to get us thinking.

We plan to sell the bungalow in a few years so any heating system that goes in needs to appeal to future buys rather than put them off but I'm guessing most electric systems are going to do that.

However we don't want to go over board with installation costs as we won't actually reap the benefits. So we need to find a balance, plus we've only got about £2.5k to do this, not sure if that will prohibit things like oil or LPG.

hshen

Hi skelly01, I'm thinking of buying a 2 bedroom terrace house with very old electric heaters.
It doesn't have gas main connected, so I probably stick with electric.

How much did each large/medium/small heater unit cost?
I imagine they work independently?

Thanks