Storage Heaters!

ebixa82

Hi,
I'm moving back to a flat I used to live in years ago. It's about 10-12 years ago and like all flats back then was fitted with storage heaters.

I absolutely detest these things AS THEY COST AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE.

I would spend a max of 2-3 hours per day in my living room.

Storage heaters switch on from 11pm-8am (when I'm in bed) and release heat throughout the day (when I'm at work).

So the room is heated for essentially 24 hours a day, and I'm only in it for 3.

However, if I don't turn it on at night the place is an icebox in the evening. Anyway around this?

Thanks

gosuckonalemon

ebixa82 wrote: »

Hi,
I'm moving back to a flat I used to live in years ago. It's about 10-12 years ago and like all flats back then was fitted with storage heaters.

I absolutely detest these things AS THEY COST AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE.

I would spend a max of 2-3 hours per day in my living room.

Storage heaters switch on from 11pm-8am (when I'm in bed) and release heat throughout the day (when I'm at work).

So the room is heated for essentially 24 hours a day, and I'm only in it for 3.

However, if I don't turn it on at night the place is an icebox in the evening. Anyway around this?

Thanks

One of the worst inventions ever created.

The only problem is using an electric heaters for a few hours will probably be just as expensive.

Hot water bottles and blankets I reckon are your best bet!

djimi

We bought a plug in radiator last winter and it literally halved our electicity bills from the winter before where we were using the storage heater. Storage heaters are quite literally the most ridiculous contraptions and are completely useless for houses. Fine for an office where you are there during the day to get the benefit of the heat, but pointless for a home where noone is there when the majority of the heat is being released...

ebixa82

djimi wrote: »

We bought a plug in radiator last winter and it literally halved our electicity bills from the winter before where we were using the storage heater. Storage heaters are quite literally the most ridiculous contraptions and are completely useless for houses. Fine for an office where you are there during the day to get the benefit of the heat, but pointless for a home where noone is there when the majority of the heat is being released...

Hi. How long would you use the plug in radiator in the evening?

I'd only need it for 2 hours max I reckon but would be paranoid that it might end up being just as expensive.

djimi

Probably had it on for a max of 2-3 hours in the evening. The one we have you can turn it on for 20-30 minutes and it will stay hot for the guts of an hour so we didnt need to leave it turned on the whole time. It wont necessarily heat the whole room but if you have it beside the sofa when watching TV or whatever then its perfectly adequate.

um7y1h83ge06nx

I'm not an electric radiator expert but if you go down that route check the different technologies.

You have blow heaters, halogen and oil-filled. I believe that the blow and halogen heaters might be the quickest to get heat out so good for quick heat. However if you leaving the heater on for a while the oil-fired ones are more efficient, once they heat up they keep the heat for a while.

Most of that information is stuff I have just picked up from people so it would be best to do a search online about the technologies.

djimi

I think its an oil filled one that we have.