Sunflow Electric Heating Systems

lstar337

Just get some nice little oil filled jobbies. (due to our current long winter they are selling them everywhere)

As stated above in many posts, all these heaters give out the same amount of heat because they are 100% efficient.

Just look for the cheapest electric heater you can find, that doesn't look like it was made so poorly that it will burn your house down.

I have a couple of Dimplex ones that work very well, and look very nice, but a cheaper, uglier model will still give out the same heat for the same power rating.

Richie-from-the-Boro

diawl_bach wrote: »

I have just had a surveyor out from sunflow to give me a quote and their prices came out as 2.5kw £1410, 1.5kw £1120 and 3/4kw £860 and 1/2kw £760. The radiator sounded good, but was shocked by price. I did have a look at others but some would need 3 radiators for same room which would cost same. I am totally confused now. I need electric heating for a cottage I am renting. Any ideas would be greatly received

Thanks for the input ' diawl bach ' yes there are both cheaper 'designer style' options and considerably cheaper options. You are of course correct in a rented property to buy portable.

Designer panel 2kW are around £150, non designer 2kW from around £25 to £150. What have you looked at and like and why two, two suggests a very big room needing a 4kW+ output. ?

John_Pierpoint

It is that time of year again.

I wonder how many things that look a bit like three panel, gas fired, multi-coloured central heating fin backed radiators; a salesman has to sell to pay for the advert.

Ah my local theatre is advertising its Xmas production of Jack and the Beanstalk again, how seasonal.

But that is a fairy story about a foolish young man, not about foolish and vulnerable baby boomers who were asleep during the "O" level physics class.

How many "zero carbon" homes have we built in the UK so far ?
How many of these are owned by readers of The Radio Times ?

awills

I so wish I had found these posts two years ago. I am one of the mad who fell for the 'costs pennies a day to run' crap that the salesman comes out with. Parted with £2.200 for two yes two hand built just for me rads. Its only since having a smart meter that I have noticed how much my money saving rads were pushing up the meter.

Please do not buy these rads from Sunflow or anyone else. You get talked into it and only find out much later you have been conned!

lstar337

awills wrote: »

I so wish I had found these posts two years ago. I am one of the mad who fell for the 'costs pennies a day to run' crap that the salesman comes out with. Parted with £2.200 for two yes two hand built just for me rads. Its only since having a smart meter that I have noticed how much my money saving rads were pushing up the meter.

Please do not buy these rads from Sunflow or anyone else. You get talked into it and only find out much later you have been conned!

Sorry to hear that!

I make it my mission to talk people out of these type of rads, such a waste of money.

littlehopper

my brother has just had a quote for a 2 bed bungalow l d k 2b bwc
price £12500 - comments please!

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

A 2 bedroomed bungalow for £12,500 sounds cheap. Does it have much land?

P.S.

What does 'l d k 2b bwc' mean?

penrhyn

Lounge Diner, Two Beds, Bath and Bog!!

8 rads, for £12,500, £ 1,500 each.

The phrase I'm looking for rhymes with Clucking Bell!!

Fembo

Being one of the vulnerable and elderly visited by Sunflow but also with experience in building it took me 5 secs to work that £1441 for a new sunflow heater has a payback of 8 years. I off to Aldi for the programmable oil filled heater and can now contemplate a couple of winter trips to India instead of that huge outlay.

Richie-from-the-Boro

littlehopper wrote: »

my brother has just had a quote for a 2 bed bungalow l d k 2b bwc
price £12500 - comments please!

Thanks for the input ' littlehopper ' and welcome to the forum.