Storage heater reflectors

bigoliver

Hi all,

Hopefully someone will have some experience or ideas about installing radiator reflectors behind storage heaters.
Would it be possible to fit them behind a storage heater?
Would it be efficient? Or would the bricks in your wall just help to store the heat more efficiently overnight?
At very least they might help protect the wall paint from getting burnt.
Could just glueing tin fold to the wall (or foam installation then to the wall) be more efficient or easier?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice

Oliver

penrhyn

The bricks in the storage heater are already surrounded by an inch or so of insulation, a bit of tin foil would make no difference at all.

bigoliver

That makes sense, thanks.

The marketing would have you believe that the foil rebounds the heat back into your room rather that being absorbed by the wall, but that would probably only happen with a lot of heat like from gch rather than the slow prolonged lower heat of storage heaters. Thanks for your post and putting the idea into perspective.

Oliver