Infrared Heating Panels....Again!

Cardew

Offshore is presumably Jersey or Channel Islands.

Firstly all electrical heating is expensive! As you say all electrical heaters have the same efficiency - 100% - and that includes infrared. The pros and cons of Infrared are rehearsed in this thread and elsewhere on MSE. It is also important to note that we frequently get posters who have a vested interest in stating 'product X' is fantastic and cuts my costs by xx%!

Dimplex Quantum are combined storage heating and conventional heating and would be the cheapest to run on the Mainland(but very expensive to buy). The effectiveness of these heaters in Jersey will depend of the various off-peak tariffs offered by JEC.

I can't think why your husband is thinking of getting a Heat Pump just for hot water. Producing water hot enough for baths/showers will see a heat pump at its least efficient! - not to mention the cost.

Have you considered getting an Air to Air heat pump that can be used as air conditioning in summer? Certainly worth investigating - high COP and relatively cheap to install. Used extensively abroad e.g southern states in USA.

lstar337

I was going to say air-air heat pump, or even ground source if you could manage it. Or it will have to be Quantum.

On the plus side, if you are getting solar anyway, then Quantum hub has the ability to send your excess generation to both the quantum heaters (for storage), and the Quantum water tank (for hot water).

I was also thinking of an Oil combi boiler, but if you don't want pipes (or I'm guessing, radiators), then that isn't really an option.

Maybe in your case you need to get an independent heating engineer to give you a few options.

perrierjouet

Unfortunately, we have had to ditch the solar panels idea. We have a flat roof not designed for weight bearing so we would have to reinforce the roof to carry the weight of the panels and the cost is coming in, with the batteries, at around £40K! This would not end up washing its face so not viable.

Will look further in the Quantum solution. I cannot find one person who has actually installed infrared (aside from a blog and he seems to love them).

Thanks for the replies.

Susan4

Hi I enquiring if anyone has had any bother with their infrared panel heaters.My mum bought four last year from Ultimate Home Solutions and has never been happy with them as they are not giving out the heat that she requires as she is in the house a lot and has arthritis and feels the cold a lot.She paid cash for these.

Cardew

Susan4 wrote: »

Hi I enquiring if anyone has had any bother with their infrared panel heaters.My mum bought four last year from Ultimate Home Solutions and has never been happy with them as they are not giving out the heat that she requires as she is in the house a lot and has arthritis and feels the cold a lot.She paid cash for these.

How much did she pay?

Electricjohn

So do I, she would do a much better job of keeping me warm!
We have been living in a new house since the beginning of September built by a new building company that installed infrared panels supplied by Warm4Less. To put it simply THEY DON'T WORK!!

Electricjohn

Hello Emma
My experience of infrared is a bit jaded I'm afraid because we bought a new house at the end of September 2017 and lived in it for just over 3 months now.
We use it for 8 hours through the day in all the rooms, problem is it never reaches 21 degrees C in any of the rooms and never switches off on the thermostat. At 4pm we light the log burner to heat the house and turn off the infrared.
For the 8 hours its on it uses 68 KWH at 14.43 pence per KW total cost £9.81 supplied by British Gas, yes they sell electricity as well which is ironic since there's no gas in this village.
We have tried to discuss this with the builder and the supplier with no success, the builders not interested and the supplier says he sold the infrared panels to the builder so any warranty is with the builder even though I own the house.The supplier wrote to the builder and said we should micro manage our house only using rooms we are using so we don't heat the bedrooms through the day.
But its an open plan house with vaulted ceilings and we want to keep warm .
The house all day has achieved no better than 18 degrees C with the heating on and we don't really get warm until we light the wood burner which also has a cost of about £4.00 per evening, we let it go out about 10pm most nights.
SO, in my opinion you might as well use fan heaters because at least they are quick to heat a room and switch off.
Bottom line is I would have the builder remove this crap and put an oil fired boiler in he would do it.
But I won't hold my breath!

jk0

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