Seen a flat that looks terrible to heat

Scot_39

Its personal choices.

Heating is only part of the cost.

If you can afford the projected costs - and everything else suits - do not simply let one aspect like heating drive the decision.

Its personal choices.

Swings and roundabouts - your flat maybe close enough to walk or cycle to work - a more efficient home or flat might mean a car, bus or rail fares.

Top floor - flat not without issues - but some allow drying space for laundry - and means no noise through ceilings etc.

If their are positives attracting you - they will still hopefully attract others.

And electric heating is the future.

Just be prepared to maybe invest - or for your building freeholder to invest and charge for more efficeint heating in future (Scottish greens were pushing gas to communal heat or at least per close style small scale commercial GSHP type wet installs as part of their domestic building decarbonisation)  

If your already in all electric block though more likely your choice.

And a lifestyle type tariff (Cosy or one of the multirate Tomato / other challenger deals - might get you lower bills for several hours per day / night - in combination with some thermal store in floor tiles etc)

EssexHebridean

Are you in a reasonable physical condition to be able to sprint? If so, I would lace up your running shoes and run as fast as you can away from the place… sorry! 

Having lived in a place suffering from damp and mould I am fully aware quite how tricky it is to deal with - you would have the very devils own job even if you were able to sort the damp of stopping the mould keeping reappearing. Honestly, I wouldn’t tough the place you describe with someone else’s barge pole! 

binstore

Gerry1 said:

Many of today's downsizers will have good Defined Benefit (final salary) pensions and expensive detached houses to sell.  They will observe the energy bills rather than worry about them.

Many of tomorrow's downsizers are likely to have far inferior Defined Contribution pensions and relatively modest properties to sell.

And almost everyone will then be much more aware that electric heating will be expensive or cripplingly expensive, especially if tariffs such as E7 and E10 have been withdrawn or made uncompetitive because of the push to heat pumps.

Caveat Emptor.

Good point. A lot of the owners of these flats seem to be are already solving this by under heating.

Working in the industry, I'm fairly sure that as long as demand, and so wholesale prices, are lower overnight, there will be tariffs that are cheaper then. Though the spread between day and night wholesale prices will be eroded by demand increasing during or shifting to overnight. Eg smart appliances, EVs. And by electricity storage, if that ever happens in size.

Ildhund

Would you be able to install an A2A heat pump on that flat roof? If so, that could provide a good heating solution for what otherwise looks particularly unattractive.  

binstore

Ildhund said:

Would you be able to install an A2A heat pump on that flat roof? If so, that could provide a good heating solution for what otherwise looks particularly unattractive.  

Not sure about roof as communal. Somebody did suggest a2a in the walls though. Will have to look into as know nothing about that.

FreeBear

binstore said:

Ildhund said:

Would you be able to install an A2A heat pump on that flat roof? If so, that could provide a good heating solution for what otherwise looks particularly unattractive.  

Not sure about roof as communal. Somebody did suggest a2a in the walls though. Will have to look into as know nothing about that.

You may well need consent from the freeholder to punch holes through the wall - Something else for you to check.