Help Please - Night storage Heaters

footyguy

justjohn wrote: »

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I have to put a timer on the night storage heater anyway as it will not be used at weekends.

Don't forget to turn off all water at the mains and drain down the entire water system in the property.

Have you ever seen the mess a frozen water pipe can cause? Not something you would want to find first thing on a Monday morning.

(not something you want to find at any time to be honest)

I'm leaving you at this point as I don't think this is kosher... :cool:

justjohn

footyguy wrote: »

Therein probably lies the answer


If you look in almost any bank, you will usually see heaters (not necessarily NSHs) on both sides i.e. the teller side & the public side, especially with older style banks with security shield permanently in place wall to ceiling.

Yup that's exactly how it was. the bank was open and running a few months ago. I bought it from the bank.
The security shield(just over head height )/teller stations have been ripped out.


The heaters that are in there are what the bank used(creda NSH's and the dimplex convectors. (mind you I have pulled one of the heaters out that would have kept the tellers warm lol )


There were originaly 5 creda NSH and 3 dimplex convectors I have pulled out 1 creda 79162.

justjohn

footyguy wrote: »

I'm leaving you at this point as I don't think this is kosher... :cool:

lol why not kosher lol ... pipes are all lagged so hopefully will be fine

justjohn

office - dimplex convector and 1 NSH
main area 3 NSH and 2 dimplex (now only 2 NSH/2 dimplex)
kitchen one NSH
book room/ walk in safe - no heating


That's what they were originally running on

Richie-from-the-Boro

justjohn wrote: »

its actually a commercial property. has a main area ,office,toilet, kitchen. office is the main working area. I have put blinds on the windows and put draft excluders on the office doors.


I don't mind freezing when I am NOT in the office. lol


It was originally a bank and main teller area is now open plan.

- its three banks, one is the [function] building, the second is the bank of cheap stored heat in the heater and the third is the residual heat in the walls fabric etc
- replace the creda 79162 or put in a newer more efficient 3+kW storage heater replacement unit, heat only the living area with NSH use panels for other areas
- heater input to full whack output damper firmly closed [and never ever opened] and left that way for a week will 'soak' the area in cheap[er] heat
- at that point the input costs will begin to reduce as each successive charge period of the 7 cheap hours in relation to residual heat in the three banks

If you started with 5 banks of cheap heat and ripped one [creda 79162 3.36kw x 7 = 23.52kWh] out you now have only 4 ways to bank cheap heat and must now make up that 20% or 23.52kWh of cheap [off-peak] banked heat you have thrown away with convected or radiated [core-rate] heat costing 3 times more per kW.