storage heaters/electric central heating or gas?

magic_roundabout_2

Thanks arithriticdigit. I am beginning to feel incapable of making a decision, it seems the more information I have the less I know!

ronoc

Hello all,
well what an interesting read this thread has been, and please let me add to it.
I have a one bedroom flat, there is no gas supply at all.
I am thinking of the storage heater option, I am a 9-5 guy but also I don't need to feel my flat is in the Amazon jungle with its heat. I just want a warmish flat when I get up and when I come home from work.
Are the modern day storage heaters capable of holding in the heat created over night until 6-9 the next evening?
Thanks for all the help before this post and any after it.
Conor

Cardew

ronoc wrote: »

Hello all,
well what an interesting read this thread has been, and please let me add to it.
I have a one bedroom flat, there is no gas supply at all.
I am thinking of the storage heater option, I am a 9-5 guy but also I don't need to feel my flat is in the Amazon jungle with its heat. I just want a warmish flat when I get up and when I come home from work.
Are the modern day storage heaters capable of holding in the heat created over night until 6-9 the next evening?
Thanks for all the help before this post and any after it.
Conor

In a word 'No' if reports from users are to be believed; albeit they are better than models of yesteryear!

Lee_Rees_2

I spent most of my 20's living in properties with storage heaters.

They can work but you have to set them up properly. The reason people go wrong is because they try to adjust them to the weather. Set the input to max and the output to min and then leave them alone.

If your house is too warm, open the window.

If one of your rooms gets too cold in the evenings then there are 2 options, get a bigger storage heater for that room or switch to economy 10 which gives you a short blast of cheap electricity in the evening.

In one of the properties I lived at the landlord would not upgrade the storage heater in the front room so I instead brought a calor gas portable heater for evening heat. The running cost for the calor gas heater was about £40 per month, todays prices would be £70.