Electric heating

kb1956

FrugaiMacDugal said:

Hope you get a qualifying survey, and be cosy next winter, too late for now.

You may have higher usage for about 3 months over the cold winter months, but usage will taper down, so think about the yearly cost per month, it's not going to cost you £££s evert month.

Thank you I hope I get it as well. I will update my post once they have been 🙂

kb1956

Scot_39 said:

kb1956 said:

wrf12345 said:

There was another thread on storage heaters where the new heaters were automatically going into boost mode and using expensive daytime electric to maintain the temperature so if you do get a grant make sure that is turned off when it is set up by the installers, or you will be back where you started.

Thanks very much I will make sure of this 🙂

Come back with their proposed model(s) and wiring setup - single live feed or low power live feed and meter restricted feed for main charge elements ?

What meter do you currently have - has it been replaced when you went live panels ?

Survey should check and build that into report / offer.



Beware different manufacturers combi heaters (Quantums, Elnur Ecombi etc) use daytime boost / live 24/7 feed so day rate cost heating components differently.

And its not necassarily best to disable completely - but instead maybe worth turning to min - on some Elnurs - as disables the charge learning iirc if set to 0 hrs / off.

Come back if going ahead and hopefully a user can share their setup advice in more detail.

My current meter is like a box of tricks. Two consumer units one for storage heaters and another for the rest of the electrics. The electrician who tried to sell me oil filled rads said I need a new consumer unit. EON also came round as I wanted the current key meter replaced with a smart meter but as the cupboard is so crowded EON said I would have to get an electrician in to sort the meter cupboard out as currently there isn't enough room to install a smart meter 🤷‍♀️