Anyone have electrastream radiator heating?

sandglyn

We are thinking of buying a brand new parkhome in Norwich 45x20. It has electrastream heating with radiators. We don’t know anything about this type of heating. 
We would be there all day & like to keep warm. Would we find it too expensive or not warm enough. 

Gerry1

If it uses daytime electricity it will be the most expensive form of heating you can find.  You'd probably find bottled gas would be cheaper: what do the other residents use?

Also, can you choose any energy supplier, or do you have to buy it from the site owner?  That can be problematic.

sandglyn

There is oil fired heating or bottled gas on the site as well. This home had it installed & as it’s new has never been used. Electric etc can be bought from your own power supplier. We thought it would be expensive as we can only get economy 7 here. Would it be expensive to have it changed to bottle gas after we moved in do you think?
many thanks. S. 

Gerry1

sandglyn said:

we can only get economy 7 here. Would it be expensive to have it changed to bottle gas after we moved in do you think?
many thanks. S. 

Don't understand that.  If you already have an E7 meter, many suppliers will happily sign you up to a single rate tariff.  If they're awkward (e.g. Bulb) you could always change the meter.  As to changing to bottled gas after you move in, you'd have to look at the capital costs and how often you'll be staying there so there's no easy answer.

But it might be better not to buy a place with a crazily expensive heating system !

macman

E7 is going to be cheaper than LPG...

Gerry1

macman said:

E7 is going to be cheaper than LPG...

But is the Electrastream a genuine storage system compatible with usage only on E7?

sandglyn

Thanks guys.  quess it’s answered my question. Don’t buy the ruddy place. People who sell these electrastream systems are going to praise them up. It would be a permanent residence so we will find one somewhere else with  gas central heating. 

matelodave

Electrastream uses a 9kw immersion heater to heat a hot water tank which then pumps the hot water through the radiators - it is possibly the most expensive way you can imagine to heat your house, home or even a caravan. As is uses energy whilst it's heating it does not work like a storage heat to take advantage of off-peak energy and so will use peak rate electricity all the time it's heating.
Oil will be much cheaper and even bottled gas (in big cylinders) is cheaper than peak rate leccy - although you've have to factor in the cost of installing and gas or oil boiler