Fischer Storage Heaters

eddievision

Just had the salesman for Fischer to replace 1 Economy storage heater that is over 25yrs old and still works ok but looks a bit dated so I thought of getting one of the new generation heaters from Fischer .........Price wait for it............£2.222:eek:.........I kid you not I thought it's not a full house installation just one measly rad I had thought maybe £500 tops but £2.222 that's ridiculous and a rip off:mad:.......be warned!

lstar337

eddievision wrote: »

Just had the salesman for Fischer to replace 1 Economy storage heater that is over 25yrs old and still works ok but looks a bit dated so I thought of getting one of the new generation heaters from Fischer .........Price wait for it............£2.222:eek:.........I kid you not I thought it's not a full house installation just one measly rad I had thought maybe £500 tops but £2.222 that's ridiculous and a rip off:mad:.......be warned!

I would say £2.22 is reasonable, even for magic clay heaters.

Unless you meant £2,220 which is extortion.

Richie-from-the-Boro

eddievision wrote: »

Just had the salesman for Fischer to replace 1 Economy storage heater that is over 25yrs old and still works ok but looks a bit dated so I thought of getting one of the new generation heaters from Fischer .........Price wait for it............£2.222:eek:.........I kid you not I thought it's not a full house installation just one measly rad I had thought maybe £500 tops but £2.222 that's ridiculous and a rip off:mad:.......be warned!

- s/he charged £2 grand for a £60 convector heater ?

Owain_Moneysaver

eddievision wrote: »

Just had the salesman for Fischer to replace 1 Economy storage heater that is over 25yrs old and still works ok but looks a bit dated so I thought of getting one of the new generation heaters from Fischer .........Price wait for it............£2.222:eek:.........I kid you not I thought it's not a full house installation just one measly rad I had thought maybe £500 tops but £2.222 that's ridiculous and a rip off:mad:.......be warned!

And will cost you 3x as much to run as a storage heater.

xinstaller

Right to 30-day refund becomes law. Anyone knows how this fits in.

Someone selling on ebay says "The total cost to buy these new is over £9000
On average you can heat your house for £1 a day with all 5 of these heater "

£1 pound a day!!!!! all five heaters!!!!!. Is it possible!!!!!!

I would say never in a million years. Thats my opinion, bearing in mind the many ASA rulings.

Richie-from-the-Boro

On average you can heat your house for £1 a day with all 5 of these heater

I say "On average you can heat your house for 20p a day with all 5 of these heaters"

- I just do not say to what temperature [°C) on average
- so the heater is not faulty and you have no right to a refund

I'm not sure how, if at all the new 2015 CRA 'unfair terms in a contract' sits with signing in your own home, as far as I remember you already had a 14 day cooling period if lied to, or the terms were unfair and you never had any consumer protection if the agreement is 'behind curtains'. Of course its not unfair - you invited them in to your home, and as above - no one contracted you a guaranteed °C.

xinstaller

Watched a prog. on BBC 1 last tuesday 6th oct. on RIP OF BRITAIN Series 7: Episode 17....must watch. I personally would highly recommend anyone looking to replace their heating systems, to please contact the energy savings trust for best advise. Brian Horne from the energy saving trust say, "Electricity COST 3 times as much as gas". Stay warm and not out of pocket.

xinstaller

Get a refund if you have been lied and told you were going to save money.

This is what appeared in the Telegraph.
A LOAD OF HOT AIR
Q We are in our seventies and increasingly concerned about the running costs of our off-peak electric storage heaters in our two-bedroom bungalow. We appreciate that gas may be cheaper to run, but at our age we are trying to avoid the upheaval of installing a gas central heating system.
We have read of a new German-engineered electrical heating system with a clay core, which is easy to install and runs off 13 amp sockets, which they claim can save 30-40 per cent in the first year alone against the old storage heating system. What are your thoughts?
JA, Glasgow
A Clay-cored electric heaters are not a “new system”, and advertising used to market them is frequently misleading. All electrical resistance heaters cost exactly the same to run, because 100 per cent of the electrical power is converted into heat. Any claim that these radiators use 30- 40 per cent less electricity to heat a room cannot be true.

A theme common to many of the adverts is that the heaters run for only 15-20 minutes per hour, thus somehow saving electricity. But any thermostat-controlled heater will turn itself off periodically to maintain a constant room temperature. You will get exactly the same heating effect, and exactly the same-sized electricity bill, using convector heaters or oil-filled radiators costing £20 from Argos. There is no need to give thousands of pounds to any of the dozens of firms who have sprung up importing these clay-cored heaters.
In your own case, you would find your bills skyrocketing, because you would be using expensive day-rate electricity, rather than cheap off-peak electricity.
Your heating system is the cheapest you could get. Town gas is practically the same cost per unit as off-peak electricity, but incurs thousands of pounds’ outlay for installation and upkeep. If I were you, I would stick with your existing storage heaters.

Owain_Moneysaver

xinstaller wrote: »

This is what appeared in the Telegraph.
A LOAD OF HOT AIR
Q We are in our seventies and increasingly concerned about the running costs of our off-peak electric storage heaters in our two-bedroom bungalow.

The best thing they can do is upgrade their loft insulation if they haven't already; in a bungalow they'll have twice the roof area of a normal house, and they can probably get it done free.

Richie-from-the-Boro

xinstaller wrote: »

Watched a prog. on BBC 1 last tuesday 6th oct. on RIP OF BRITAIN Series 7: Episode 17....must watch. I personally would highly recommend anyone looking to replace their heating systems, to please contact the energy savings trust for best advise. Brian Horne from the energy saving trust say, "Electricity COST 3 times as much as gas". Stay warm and not out of pocket.

EST gets its wonka directly from a big GOV department called DECC and is a registered charity, its "impartial research" is anything but impartial as is the "independent advice" it offered on its website and promoted by you here on MSE. The whole EST appears to be a promo arm of the wealthy interests in the climate change and insulation lobby. The EST is unable to cite any independent scientific evidence to support the theory that mankind is responsible for catastrophic global warming, because there isn't any.