I've made a REALLY expensive mistake, help!

HappyMJ

What is wrong with the feet? Storage heaters weigh a tonne...accurately it's 144kg. They must have feet or they would rip the plaster from the wall. I suppose if you found strong enough bolts you could bolt them to the wall and take the feet off.

penrhyn

Oh deary me, only trying to help.
You can't see the feet on the Credas unless you are lying on the floor.
I guess cognitive dissonance has set in!

gw23

I just hate the feet - so shoot me!

There is actually nothing wrong with having in your home something that you like the look of, rather than something you don't like the look of. I think wood flooring is one of the ugliest, tackiest and naff looking stuff you could wish for, but I wouldn't deny anyone's right to have it or criticise them for doing so! I'm sure most people have it because they like the look of it - it gathers dust, gets scuffed, drives the next door neighbours completely insane, but it's not for me to comment on other people's choices in their own home.

Nor do I comment on men who wear black socks with shorts - but I could!

grahamc2003

gw23 wrote: »

. I know exactly how to work the controls on storage heaters for their optimum performance - I've lived here for 11 years and my total electric payments per month last year (and remember, no gas) were £50 a month on E7 - and I was never cold, even through that awful winter, so I guess I had energy consumption/efficiency pretty well tied up. £600 per annum for total energy bills is pretty good I think.

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And you risked all that because your heater had feet?

I'm not sure you really did have your heating all under optimal control unless you suddenly and purposefully decided you wanted to pay 250% more for your heating for some reason.

macman

Not to mention paying 10 times the going rate for a panel heater...

grahamc2003

Yeah but beha panel heaters are cool.

gw23

Actually, I came on here for advice, not to be belittled or crticised. I thought this was what this site was all about. Wrong again! Err- if any of you know-it-alls looked at the title of my post it has the word "MISTAKE" in it - did that not give you any clue that I knew I had made the wrong decision? Obviously not, and obviouly I must have been right to guess that you are all men - a woman would have taken the word "MISTAKE" on board right away and offered advice to help correct it, not waste energy being rude.

gexp

bottom line is if you are freezing you are saving electricity so you could buy extra fan heaters or whatever or an extra storage heater.
you need to use the off peak lecy to save money.

macman

But you have been offered plenty of good advice-take out the BEHA's and go back to storage heaters, unless you are prepared to triple your heating bill.
The fact that you don't like that advice is not anyone else's fault-it's entirely up to you whether you follow it or not.
What I find curious is how, since you clearly did do some research, you thought that a lower rated panel heater could do the job of a higher rated storage heater, given that they both have the same efficiency?

grahamc2003

gw23 wrote: »

Actually, I came on here for advice, not to be belittled or crticised. I thought this was what this site was all about. Wrong again! Err- if any of you know-it-alls looked at the title of my post it has the word "MISTAKE" in it - did that not give you any clue that I knew I had made the wrong decision? Obviously not, and obviouly I must have been right to guess that you are all men - a woman would have taken the word "MISTAKE" on board right away and offered advice to help correct it, not waste energy being rude.

If you read back, I think you'll find you got very good advice, and after that good advice you tried belittling some of us, intrduced sexist remaks against men (which incidentally, had any of us used similar remarks against women many would rightly be up in arms about) and indirectly claimed you were a heating expert with everything under optimum control and criticised the good advice you had received. Even above, you are saying sexist remarks which, the other way round, wouldn't be tolerated.

Don't you see that?