Storage heater bricks

Energy28

Hi

I have an automatic .85kw storage heater in a bedroom and its making the room too hot.

It has 8 bricks, 4 one side of the elemts and 4 behind

If we removed a couple of bricks to reduce the heat storage would it have any negative impact on its operation?

Thanks.

Gerry1

Unfortunately this is the forum for LPG, Heating Oil, Solid & Other Fuels.  Try re-posting in Energy.

QrizB

If its genuinely automatic you should be able to turn down the temperature setting and it will adjust to match.

Or try turning it off completely while the weather is mild?

theoretica

Removing bricks will - theoretically - mean the electric element generates the same amount of heat and costs the same, but more of the heat goes into the room during the night and less during the day.  It may also be bad for the heater.  Turning the heater down, or changing settings so it heats up for a shorter period of time would seem the better solution, and use less energy.

lohr500

It could end up costing more to run. With the bricks removed it may not reach the point where the core temperature is hot enough to switch off the element. So as  theoretica suggests, it could we'll spend most of the night leaking heat to the room and then have insufficient storage heat to keep the room warm the next day. Adjusting the settings would seem like a better option.

Swipe

It'll be cold again on Tuesday. Just turn it off until then

Energy28

Adjusting the settings would seem like a better option.

Thanks. The heater is an automatic with no dials or any way of changing the thermostat from the outside. Is there a way to change the thermostat from the inside that will make it take in less?

Thanks

coffeehound

It sounds like you have the littlest size with one element, normally found in bathrooms.  It may take in heat for the full 7 hours with just an over-temperature fusible link inside, so no thermostat as such.  If so, the only way to reduce the heat it gives out is to have it on a timer to limit the number of hours it receives power overnight.  You could have an electrician add a simmerstat type control to reduce the power intake, but rather than that, it would be easier to just replace it with a differen kind of heater; old-style night storage heaters don't usually make sense for bedrooms.  If you only need to maintain some warmth overnight then a plug-in heater can also take advantage of the off-peak rate on a timer

QrizB

Energy28 said:

Adjusting the settings would seem like a better option.

Thanks. The heater is an automatic with no dials or any way of changing the thermostat from the outside. Is there a way to change the thermostat from the inside that will make it take in less?

Exactly what make and model is it?

canaldumidi

Have you used duckduckgo to search for the make/model online? Manufacturer's instructions and/or utube vids?

coffeehound

Apparently Dimplex did make a version of the bathroom NSH with some level of temperature compensation and no user controls

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/DXXLS6N.html