Are Ceramic Radiators any good

yorksguy11

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I was wondering if anyone on here has bought the new style ceramic radiators and how they rate them and their running costs.

I live in a small terrace house. I was thinking of replacing my Baxi fire back boiler and gas fire front and replacing it with a new energy saving gas fire and upstairs use a couple of electric ceramic radiators. Instead of replacing and relocating a new boiler. I know baxi do a new fire back boiler but you cant have a gas fire on the front of them. Which would mean moving the boiler.
The ones i have seen are quite expensive but have digital programers on them so i could regulate each room.
Thanks for any help on this.

tlh858

Electric radiators will cost 3 or 4 times as much to run as a gas system.

Doesn't matter what they are made from - the fact is that electricity is far more expensive then gas.
Certain websites do claim that their electric heaters are somehow much cheaper to run than others, but this is all lies. Usually it's the ones which have special gel inside / expensive ceramics / aluminium from Italy / and all sorts of other nonsense.

Unless your existing back boiler is broken and can't be repaired, then you will be far better just keeping it.

yangptangkipperbang

tlh858 wrote: »

Certain websites do claim that their electric heaters are somehow much cheaper to run than others, but this is all lies.

Not usually "lies" - just a play on words to trap the unwary.

I saw one "heater" advertised as costing less than 1p an hour to run. This claim was absolutely true - this so-called heater was rated at 60W !!

A 60W lightbulb was a fraction of the cost and would have given out as much heat, PLUS some light into the bargain

daveyjp

A £30 de longhi heater with a thermostat will do the same job as a ceramic radiator the manufacturers of which use snake oil physics to get you to part with hundreds of pounds.

Kernel_Sanders

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

A 60W lightbulb was a fraction of the cost and would have given out as much heat, PLUS some light into the bargain

Be wary of Yang here folks, he's trying to kid you that his 60W tungsten filament lightbulb gives out free light! It will produce a mere 56W of heat whilst the remaining 4W is squandered on light

cyclonebri1

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

Not usually "lies" - just a play on words to trap the unwary.

I saw one "heater" advertised as costing less than 1p an hour to run. This claim was absolutely true - this so-called heater was rated at 60W !!

A 60W lightbulb was a fraction of the cost and would have given out as much heat, PLUS some light into the bargain

Not quite, being pedantic, the 60w output would be split between heat and light.
The energy is being divided not multiplied, no such thing as a free lunch I'm afraid:D

yangptangkipperbang

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Be wary of Yang here folks, he's trying to kid you that his 60W tungsten filament lightbulb gives out free light! It will produce a mere 56W of heat whilst the remaining 4W is squandered on light

"The modern incandescent lightbulb, ................. Less than 3% of the input energy is converted into usable light. "

My incandescent lightbulbs are obviously better heaters than yours ....:rotfl:

fluffymuffy

If I lived in a terraced house I'd be getting a split air con unit capable of producing heat. Just the one on the back wall will heat the whole house.

Kernel_Sanders

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

"The modern incandescent lightbulb, ................. Less than 3% of the input energy is converted into usable light. "

I read it was 7%. Either way, it doesn't change the validity of the point that cyclonebri1 and I made,

Avoriaz

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Be wary of Yang here folks, he's trying to kid you that his 60W tungsten filament lightbulb gives out free light! It will produce a mere 56W of heat whilst the remaining 4W is squandered on light

But that light bounces around the room until its energy is absorbed as heat by the walls, floor, ceilings and any objects in the room. A small portion may escape out of the window but essentially a 60 watt lightbulb will provide 60 watts of heat.

Won't it?