Need advice on free standing heater

joelloo25

Hello,
I live in a flat that runs solely on electricity. I used to use the electric panel radiator and it was too expensive to run. I knew this by checking on my electric meter when i switched off the radiator. I have checked with the gas and it costs about £1000 to get the gas installed into this flat as nobody in this flat has gas.

So i'm running on free standing oil-radiator and it finally broke down. I just don't know what's the best and most efficient free standing radiator to get.This free standing radiator actually supplies the heat through the entire flat(it's a one bedroom flat)I surfed the Internet for some information and saw oil filled radiator that runs on 1KW or 2.5 KW, that does that mean?

I can't get a halogen as I have an Afghan hound. Can anyone please assist me. thank you

Garnet_Gem

If your flat's not in a high rise block a calor gas heater may be an answer for your heating problem. You get refills delivered to your door and pay for the gas in advance so you wouldn't get any high bills.

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

All electrical heating using daytime electricity costs exactly the same to run for the heat output.

So an Electrical panel heater, oil filled radiator, convector heater, halogen heater or your granny's old 1/2/3 bar electrical heater costs exactly the same for the heat they give out.

The only differeence is the way they deliver that heat; slowly and retain heat(oil filled radiator) or quickly with no residual heat(fan heater etc)

A 1kW or 2.5kW rating means the power they use. They will use 1 unit or 2.5 units(kWh) an hour when they are drawing power. As a unit of electricity cost between 6p and 10p a unit(kWh) you can work that out.

However the important point to note is the majority of electrical heaters have a thermostat so switch on and off as the set temperature is reached - so it is impossible to know how much they cost to run.

The important thing is that if you found the panel heater too expensive to run, then so will all other forms of electrical heating.

The only other method is to get a storage heating system fitted and run it off an Economy 7 tariff.