Is it a night stoage heater...

EMF1

Hi (first post) ,

Well i am moving into a lovely little cottage on the 24th, and unfortunately it is on night storage heating, which after reading around on here and elsewhere, turns out to be far from the cheap option that some people have said(digressing)

There is a electric fire in the lounge (which looks like a wood burner minus the chimmney) i just want to make sure this doesn't use the night storage heating system?

Also would it be more efficient to use an oil filled radiato, as this has been suggested to me??

Cardew

The wood burner effect heater is not a storage heater.

No an oil filled radiator is not as effective as a storage heater.

The point you should remember is that all electrical heating has the same efficiency* at 100%. So storage heating, oil filled radiators, etc etc all produce exactly the same amount of heat for the electrical input.

The only advantage of storage heaters is that they use electricity that costs between a third, to a half, of daytime electricity. However they do have problems that some of the heat they produce can be wasted.

However even if you use storage heaters during the day, topped up with electricity at daytime rates, this costs no more than any other form of electrical heating.

* not heat pumps