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Electric only heating and hot water

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  • Freakum86
    Freakum86 Posts: 13 Forumite
    day is 13.07 and night 5.16.

    i just thought there must be something to get better heat is an electric boiler is no go. i need heat more so in the evenings
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Freakum86 wrote: »
    day is 13.07 and night 5.16.

    i just thought there must be something to get better heat is an electric boiler is no go. i need heat more so in the evenings

    So I was wrong! It's only going to be 253% more expensive then!
    Yes, if you want total control, an electric boiler will do that, but at a great premium.
    Otherwise you need more controllabe storage heaters-have you set yours up properly? Modern ones do offer more control.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • HappyMJ
    HappyMJ Posts: 21,115 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 15 August 2013 at 9:42PM
    Freakum86 wrote: »
    day is 13.07 and night 5.16.

    i just thought there must be something to get better heat is an electric boiler is no go. i need heat more so in the evenings
    So use a convector heater when the storage heater runs out of heat. Much cheaper than installing any form of wet electric heating...same heat output for the same money too.

    On the storage heater....If you turn the input dial to max and the output dial to minimum you should still have heat in the evening.

    Oh...and another thing don't go upgrading a property you don't own. When you sell any improvements that have increased the value of the property will be shared between you and the housing association. You don't get your money back.
    :footie:
    :p Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) :p Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. :p
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