Night Storage Heaters
Discussion
Might be worth a browse: http://www.dealec.co.uk/acatalog/Storage_Heaters.h...
Georgiegirl said:
True, but lots of people won't touch a place with night storage
Interesting, why not? I've been letting for a while now, and never had a problem with finding tenants for places with night storage heaters. In fact, many flats don't have a gas supply, so there is very little choice. Expensive? No - they are a very good value way to heat your home.
Oli.
zcacogp said:
Expensive? No - they are a very good value way to heat your home.
You must live in a different country!Electricity is the most expensive way to have CH/HW, you wake up to a hot house with a desiccating atmosphere and in the evening it gets too cold. Top up with normal rate leccy at your peril. Sudden cold spell? You freeze. Sudden hot spell? You boil. Having lived with storage heaters in the past, I'd never do it again.
If I was a prospective tenant and two properties were similar, gas CH would clinch it for me. Although the property I let has storage heaters, it's a nice house in a nice location and at a sensible price got two prospects virtually bidding against each other to win it.
Edited by Simpo Two on Monday 8th November 16:48
Mr GrimNasty said:
Might be worth a browse: http://www.dealec.co.uk/acatalog/Storage_Heaters.h...
Useful, thanks 
Not cheap, are they
zcacogp said:
Expensive? No - they are a very good value way to heat your home.
You must either have exceptional insulation or have never had to run one.They are s
te too, always hot when you don't need them and cold when you do.Still, if no one complains..
I'd still go for an oil filled with thermostat.
SimpoTwo,
Night-time unit of electricity costs how much? A lot less than a day-time unit of electricity.
And, I think, comparable with the cost of a unit of gas. (But I'm not sure about this.)
Yes, you do have the problem that the heaters are a bit hotter first thing in the day but the idea isn't that they are a small thermal mass that gets roasting hot, more that they are a large thermal mass that gets warm, and remains warm during the day.
The flat we rent has them in, and they work well. No complaints from the tenants, and they served us perfectly well during the 5 years we lived there ...
Oli.
Night-time unit of electricity costs how much? A lot less than a day-time unit of electricity.
And, I think, comparable with the cost of a unit of gas. (But I'm not sure about this.)
Yes, you do have the problem that the heaters are a bit hotter first thing in the day but the idea isn't that they are a small thermal mass that gets roasting hot, more that they are a large thermal mass that gets warm, and remains warm during the day.
The flat we rent has them in, and they work well. No complaints from the tenants, and they served us perfectly well during the 5 years we lived there ...
Oli.
zcacogp said:
SimpoTwo,
Night-time unit of electricity costs how much? A lot less than a day-time unit of electricity.
And, I think, comparable with the cost of a unit of gas. (But I'm not sure about this.)
Yes, you do have the problem that the heaters are a bit hotter first thing in the day but the idea isn't that they are a small thermal mass that gets roasting hot, more that they are a large thermal mass that gets warm, and remains warm during the day.
The flat we rent has them in, and they work well. No complaints from the tenants, and they served us perfectly well during the 5 years we lived there ...
Oli.
Do you remember who made yours? I have them in my flat and they are hateful things - I'm currently sitting here cold as I didn't guess correctly what I'd have to set them to last night...Night-time unit of electricity costs how much? A lot less than a day-time unit of electricity.
And, I think, comparable with the cost of a unit of gas. (But I'm not sure about this.)
Yes, you do have the problem that the heaters are a bit hotter first thing in the day but the idea isn't that they are a small thermal mass that gets roasting hot, more that they are a large thermal mass that gets warm, and remains warm during the day.
The flat we rent has them in, and they work well. No complaints from the tenants, and they served us perfectly well during the 5 years we lived there ...
Oli.
zcacogp said:
The flat we rent has them in, and they work well. No complaints from the tenants, and they served us perfectly well during the 5 years we lived there ...
Well I'll grant you they don't need maintenance, unlike combi-boilers that seem to go bang every few years. But my tenant is complaining about the cost of a 100% electric house - something like £800 for the last winter quarter (mind you she's a woman with two kids and you know how hot they like it!)EM, No, I don't know. Sorry. They are the huge, ugly brown things filled with bricks that were installed when the flats were new in the early 80's. Look ugly, but (I maintain) do the job just right.
SimpoTwo, The flat in question is pretty well insulated, and never cost much to heat. 2-bed, 2 people living there. It may have been cheaper to heat on gas, but overall cost (as you rightly pointed out) is very low. I suspect that you have put your finger on the problem; the people who live in the house. Very hot, lots of hot water, probably leaving lights on pretty much all day long, couple of playstations, it will soon mount up. (Did they open the windows when it got too hot as well?)
Oli.
SimpoTwo, The flat in question is pretty well insulated, and never cost much to heat. 2-bed, 2 people living there. It may have been cheaper to heat on gas, but overall cost (as you rightly pointed out) is very low. I suspect that you have put your finger on the problem; the people who live in the house. Very hot, lots of hot water, probably leaving lights on pretty much all day long, couple of playstations, it will soon mount up. (Did they open the windows when it got too hot as well?)
Oli.
Edited by zcacogp on Monday 8th November 22:33
zcacogp said:
SimpoTwo,
Night-time unit of electricity costs how much? A lot less than a day-time unit of electricity.
My house has nightstore heaters. The night-time rate is 4.3p/unit. There is no mains gas up here.Night-time unit of electricity costs how much? A lot less than a day-time unit of electricity.
Ok,they're not ideal but do the job. Dimplex are probably some of the best and the more modern slimline ones are far better than the "old brown box of bricks."
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