Renting a flat with no central heating.

ManuelG

Lived with storage heaters most of my life, and quite like them tbh!

Economy 7 and an eye on the weather forecast helps.

Also lived in a flat with storage heaters where I didn't need to turn them on as we were the middle flat, and everyone else did the heating for me - just needed to remind downstairs how cold it was whenever I met him on the stairs, and put the thought in his head it was time he turned *his* heating on.

That said, I also lived in a flat in a roof and boy, was that cold. No storage heaters there and the inept electric ones they supplied just couldn't cope. Also had one of those little water heaters and to be perfectly honest it was fine as living alone, all I needed was an electric shower and somewhere that'd give me hot water to do the washing up. Not ideal, but you learned to live with it. If I had a choice I probably wouldn'd do it again, but it wouldn't be a deal breaker.

PopeSock

Thanks for the advice. Those hot water taps - which I'd hitherto seen only in staff rooms etc - did bother me. I'll give this one a miss. I've just looked at a ground floor flat which, while being electric, has a proper centrally controlled heading system, and there's another I'm looking at soon which has gas central heating.

It did look cool, but it's now pretty obvious from the way things were with the heating it was originally some storage room or something.

jillard-house

if its only a small flat i would say stick with what's there as getting a new heating system will not be cheap or hassle free