I've made a REALLY expensive mistake, help!

gw23

I've already thanked the first posters for their views and agreed that back to storage heaters is the way to go. Sorry, how do you know that the panel heater is lower rated than the old storage heater? I've never mentioned the rating of the old heater.

Gosh, such a lot of self-opinionated egos running around here - which is pretty much the view you get when you read other threads on the efficiency of heating.

Thanks to those who have offered sensible and useful comments.

macman

gw23 wrote: »

I've already thanked the first posters for their views and agreed that back to storage heaters is the way to go. Sorry, how do you know that the panel heater is lower rated than the old storage heater? I've never mentioned the rating of the old heater.

Gosh, such a lot of self-opinionated egos running around here - which is pretty much the view you get when you read other threads on the efficiency of heating.

Thanks to those who have offered sensible and useful comments.

Just a wild guess (probably as a result of a self -opinionated ego-I blame the testosterone though).
But please tell us-what the old ones were rated at?

HappyMJ

gw23 wrote: »

I've already thanked the first posters for their views and agreed that back to storage heaters is the way to go. Sorry, how do you know that the panel heater is lower rated than the old storage heater? I've never mentioned the rating of the old heater.

Gosh, such a lot of self-opinionated egos running around here - which is pretty much the view you get when you read other threads on the efficiency of heating.

Thanks to those who have offered sensible and useful comments.

You haven't mentioned it yet you said you were warm all the time. A storage heater for that size room would be the maximum 3.4kw version. The hallway would have been 1.7kw. They load up with that much power over 7 hours and release it over 17 hours. So 3.4 times 7 divide by 17 would be 1.4kW per hour if set to max.

bored_at_home

i totally know where you are coming from re the storage heaters. my last house, a small 2 bed end terrace had storage heaters. i got the house in 1995 as new , and was there 10 years. was never once cold but several times i remember sitting out on the patio stewing cos wed had a sudden warm day and i couldnt stop the heaters giving out the heat gathered the night before on e7! i used to pay 50pounds a month all in for heating/ lighting all year round.
when i moved top of my list was one with gas central heating. it was a bigger house so expected it to be more, but was absolutely horrified at the size of my first winter gas bill, it showed how economical storage heaters on e7 were.
i never had an issue about the feet on them, they had to be there so i just put up with them, but i do remember thinking they were a bit ugly..

gw23

Thank you to those who have given sound NON-JUDGMENTAL advice, much appreciated. As I have said in one of my earlier posts, I agree that going back to storage heaters is no doubt the answer, and if that's not listening to advice I don't know what is.

I never actually mentioned the rating of my old heaters so not sure where you got the idea, macman that I bought a lower rated panel heater?

Having read through other threads about heating efficiency it looks as though some people are only here to be rude and offensive, so I'll just take that as a "feature" of this forum.

Swipe

There's no need to be swelteringly hot on a mild day with storage heaters. All you need to do is keep a close eye on the weather forecast over the winter months and turn them down and up accordingly.

bored_at_home

the problems were only in spring and autmn , at the time i was a european courier so could be away a couple of days and wasnt always on the ball re keeping an eye on forecast.
it wasnt impossible, but you have nowhere near the flexibilty with those as you do with GSH. now i can warm the house up in half an hour, i dont need to be worrying a day in advance if i may be cold or hot. the good point of them was they were very cheap to run.

HappyMJ

bored_at_home wrote: »

the problems were only in spring and autmn , at the time i was a european courier so could be away a couple of days and wasnt always on the ball re keeping an eye on forecast.
it wasnt impossible, but you have nowhere near the flexibilty with those as you do with GSH. now i can warm the house up in half an hour, i dont need to be worrying a day in advance if i may be cold or hot. the good point of them was they were very cheap to run.

In spring and autumn it is more economical to use a convector heater at peak rates for a quick 1 hour boost of heating maximum 2 hours just in the late evening before the storage heater becomes the cheaper option with 7 hours of the cheaper heat.

t0rt0ise

As somebody else said, the feet should go under the carpet so that they can't be seen. They look better then.

penrhyn

Indeed, the underlay is cut out round the foot, then the carpet goes over the top without any lumpiness. Trouble is OP still knows they are there.