Help, heating confusion!

Hi all - this is amazing - thank you so much for all your ongoing advice....

Freebear - thats really useful intel about both, the price of pellets and in terms of storage...clearly have underestimated the amount of space I would need. Guess that means multi-fuel of any sort is out for me which leaves me with electric...the property already has double glazing so will check the loft re insulation to try and limit the amouunt that is lost...although I have also read that you need to let these old places ‘breathe’ but not over-sealing them?

FrugalMacdugal - thanks very for the name of the heater for the bathroom. The one in the bedroom is way too wide to fit in there so this size would be ideal. The same storage heater is already in the sitting room so the bedroom one would be wasted if I took it out, which seems a shame and I’d hate to chuck something that still works...so maybe I should live with it - and maybe keeping leaving it on the lowest setting during the day - even if i am not in the room - would mean the house isn’t constantly going back to zero before starting to reheat again from scratch...wdyt?

EnerdyRookie - thanks v much for your thoughts - yes I think you’re right about reading on the internet - so much contradictory info that you can go a bit loopy...and much of it just personal opinions. I have no reason to think the current heating was problematic for the elderly lady who lived there (newish storage heaters, newish double glazing and newish carpets by looks of it) it’s just that lots of places say electric is super expensive (and I’ve no idea if the £100 per month the last owner paid for electric in total (lighting, heating and hot water) was from her using it a lot all day every day, or being frugal....plus am keen to be as eco-friendly as I can afford...

Coffeehound - thank you! it’s really reassuring to know these are decent storage heaters - same with silver coloured immersion tank....I had no idea about this sort of thing (I fear I know nothing! :eek:)


— thank you all again! without sounding melodramatic, it is pretty daunting / scary doing all this on my own so it’s so lovely to get support, especially from strangers — which always restores faith in the human race :j

Hi Frugalmacdugal - oh I see, you mean have two storage heaters in the sitting room. Yes that would be a good idea but the sitting room (whole house) is small, with currenrly only two walls where you could put anything against it (sideboard/sofa) and from what I understand, you need more distance around a storage heater than a usual radiator so should really have things in front of it...(I think!)

And out of interest, does anyone have any experience with the new-ish electric combi boilers? I will keep the immersion tank and most of what’s there for this winter, as you all quite rightly suggest, to see the lie of the land but I had wondered about one of these as a possible alternative to immersion....purely because it heats what you need - rather then a whole tank (most of which will go cold on the days I am not in) - but as the technology seems new am not sure if there are good or not..