alternatives to expensive night storage heaters and immersion water tank?

darren_clarke

if they have been fitted properly they "should" on work when the eco 7 kicks in


how mnay elements has your hot water tank got? (immersion elements)

Cardew

melanie_king wrote: »

Hi
We had some of these German radiators fitted as we decided to get away from oil fired central heating due to the number of thefts of oil from storage tanks around here in Cornwall and also I couldn't stand the smell after living in a house with mains gas ch for 20 years.
We now intend to remove the last of the wet radiators and finish off the house with the electric ones. (We're keeping the boiler for our hot water.) What impressed us the most is that the firm who fitted them calculated the house insulation (uValue) and then were able to make what's turned out to be a pretty accurate energy usage estimate.
They told us is that energy usage is highly dependant on the insulation level and, as our insulation is really good (cavity wall, new d.g. loft insulation, etc.) our running costs would be about the same as oil central heating but without the maintenance issues, and that's turned out to be right, but I think that's also down to the fact we are able to set temperatures for different rooms at different times much more easily than we can with the central heating.
As the previous poster said they may give out no more heat in total than a cheap Argos heater, but they certainly are far more able to spread the heat evenly through the rooms and its a really comfortable heat as well.
I don't know anyone that heats their home with £10 Argos heaters myself; so it's obviously a completely stupid comment in my opinion.
As for E7, Our first house had night storage heating and it was just horrible. At 6am my bedroom was boiling hot but by 6pm, the radiators were stone cold.
The couple in the house next door have brand new e7 rads and they say they are worse than the old ones they've just had removed, so I'd definitely be open minded about alternatives.

At the risk of upsetting you again, readers might be interested in this thread where you paid £3,500 for two radiators for your mother.(or was it for you?)

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/778865

A couple more points.

Why, with electrical heating, do you need a firm to estimate heat losses of your house? Virtually all electrical heaters have a thermostat so regulate the temperature and thus amount of electricity consumed.

The reason these firms want access to people's property is so they can SELL at inflated prices.

Of course the insulation level of a property is crucial to running costs - but that applies equally to the £10 Argos heater as your £1,750(each) heater.

This is a Money Saving website and the point being made, hopefully loud and clear, is that ALL electrical heaters produce the same amount of heat, for the same running costs.

I will leave readers to decide which is more stupid; my example of a £10 Argos heater, or your advocacy of Wibo heaters for which you paid £3,500 for two - and intend buying more!

macman

melanie_king wrote: »

Hi
We had some of these German radiators fitted as we decided to get away from oil fired central heating due to the number of thefts of oil from storage tanks around here in Cornwall and also I couldn't stand the smell after living in a house with mains gas ch for 20 years.
We now intend to remove the last of the wet radiators and finish off the house with the electric ones. (We're keeping the boiler for our hot water.) What impressed us the most is that the firm who fitted them calculated the house insulation (uValue) and then were able to make what's turned out to be a pretty accurate energy usage estimate.
They told us is that energy usage is highly dependant on the insulation level and, as our insulation is really good (cavity wall, new d.g. loft insulation, etc.) our running costs would be about the same as oil central heating but without the maintenance issues, and that's turned out to be right, but I think that's also down to the fact we are able to set temperatures for different rooms at different times much more easily than we can with the central heating.
As the previous poster said they may give out no more heat in total than a cheap Argos heater, but they certainly are far more able to spread the heat evenly through the rooms and its a really comfortable heat as well.
I don't know anyone that heats their home with £10 Argos heaters myself; so it's obviously a completely stupid comment in my opinion.
As for E7, Our first house had night storage heating and it was just horrible. At 6am my bedroom was boiling hot but by 6pm, the radiators were stone cold.
The couple in the house next door have brand new e7 rads and they say they are worse than the old ones they've just had removed, so I'd definitely be open minded about alternatives.

Ah, then it's not just heat, it's Wibo heat (sorry M&S)...