Need advice for heating system in my new home

BluHawk

Hello

My Wife and I are about to move into our home we have just purchased.

The previous owner had never installed any central heating in the house and had run everything off plug in, portable electric heaters.

We would like to get central heating installed pretty quickly as well as look towards being energy efficient.

I am particularly interested in infranomic heating but wanted to know if anyone knows more about it and can offer an honest opinion.

Otherwise any advice in general for setting up central heating in the home would be appreciated too!

TiredGeek

Give us a bit more idea of the size and type of house, old or new, rural or town, mains gas available etc......

Never heard of infranomic heating before, it seems like a good thing at first glance, but from my track record with heating systems I'd get a second opinion

BluHawk

Sure,

It's a 3 bed semi detached 1970's build in a fairly built up neighbourhood.

It has already got gas connected as there is a gas fire installed in the lounge room.

The previous owner said that they didn't get radiators installed due to allergies (something I had never heard of before).

My goal is to try and work towards creating a highly energy efficient / cost effective home. What I don't know enough about yet is which type of central heating would be the best considering gas prices and maintenance fees and so on.

Thanks

albyota

hi, installing a high efficient 'A' Rated gas boiler is one option and would be the cheapest on running cost.
All forms of direct electric heating is the most expensive to run.

BluHawk

Thanks for the tip.

What I need help understanding is how that is true.

Infranomic Energy Solutions seem to boast that their system is far more efficient than anything else. If you look at their site there is plenty of marketing bumf there.

Unfortunately there isn't a lot else on the subject and I would love help in understanding this better.

Thanks!

albyota

Electric per kWh (unit) is about 13p 100% efficient
Gas per kWh unit of heat is about 4.6p 90% efficient

Don't get taken in with fancy 700Watt mirror heaters etc, you will waste your money buying....and waste even more if you dare to switch them on.



Crikey...I've caught the Cardew bug.........:eek:

tberry6686

A quick look at their website would suggest that snake oil salesmen are making another comeback.
:rotfl::rotfl:

macman

Given a mains gas supply, anything other than gas CH would be madness. If you can't afford that, use cheap panel heaters or go for bog-standard E7 and storage heaters.
Don't spend £100's on 'high efficiency' electric heaters that are no more efficient than the ones you can get for a tenner down at Aldi or Lidl.
Allergic to radiators?!

Cardew

I really don't know how they are allowed to get away with the rubbish on their website. Take this:

This seems to be a known problem as some models of storage
heater now have a convector fan heater built in purely for that situation,
however running at a minimum of 2000 watts (approx. 32p/hr) it is a very
expensive and noisy solution.

So 16p/kWh apparently! Except they use a figure of 11p/kWh when it suits them.

This is even better:

http://www.infranomic-energysolutions.com/pdf/storageweb.pdf

Apparently a 3kW storage heater uses 21kWh every day, and they compare that with their )
heater that only uses an average of 5600 watts (5.6 kW or units)' (I assume they mean kWh!

They take storage heaters with a total capacity of 19kW and assume they will use 133kWh every night(19kW for 7 hours)

For their cost comparisons with storage heaters they use their heaters with a total capacity of 4.4kW and by a set of calculations worthy of April Fool's day they conclude that the storage heaters will use 15,960kWh a quarter and cost £957.60.

However their heaters, for comparison purposes, will only need 3,612kWh and cost a mere £397.32!!

You couldn't invent it!!!

Cardew

albyota wrote: »

Crikey...I've caught the Cardew bug.........:eek:

Which is demonstrated by the improved standard of your posts;)

BluHawk

What frightens me a little is, as a newbie their site looks awfully convincing.
I'd love the idea of a low cost alternate enegry solution and knowing nothing about prices of gas and elec, I was pretty much sold.

Shame.