Hi, we are thinking of getting joule therm heating for a three bed house we just bought. There is very old storage heaters in place. The cost is around 3k approx for 7 radiators. Wondering if anyone uses this system?how much is your electricity bill? How do you heat your water?
The alternative is gas;which cost around 5k plus we need gas company to supply to house.
Just trying to figure out which would have the cheaper running cost as i have two young children and we would be in house a fair amount.
Oil or gas will have significantly lower running costs. Take a look at the SEAI fuel cost [broken link removed]. Even LPG would have less than half the running costs of electric heating.
Electric heating should really only be a last resort in your own home unless you're incorporating electricity generating capacity.
Totally agree with this. Electric heating is expensive to run, so if your budget allows for switching to gas etc, go for that. I only meant that as far as electric options go, Lucht radiators are good - sorry for any confusion.
hi Fizzy - how are you getting on with your Lucht heaters. We have old storage heaters in our house which we bought recently and are going to replace them for modern electric heaters -I was looking at the EcoVolt, Lucht and Fahro heaters and can't figure out which if any is better than the other. Have you seen an improvement in your electric bills since you replaced your storage heaters?
I'm just looking forward to getting rid of the big ugly storage heaters and the electric panal heaters in the bedrooms. To be able to just flick on the heater as I would if I could this morning for half an hour will be blissful.
so I'll need to go through a Winter before I can assess properly, particularly as coincidentally I was in the midst of switching electricity provider when my storage heater broke, so I was getting cost savings from that anyway.
Any update on the comparison between Lucht or Fahro Heaters versus storage heaters?I'm just looking forward to getting rid of the big ugly storage heaters and the electric panal heaters in the bedrooms.
I looked in to these some time ago. I found a lot of threads discussing and comparing them on UK threads.
The summary seemed to be that they weren't really any different from standard electric heaters with thermostats and timers.
In cases where storage heaters are not working or unsuitable for example people out all day and a well insulated home then they may reduce costs through limited consumption and the removal of the second meter and using standard rates. As the poster above said the main improvement they saw was in the replacement of the panel heater rather than the storage heater.
Replacing storage heaters the recommendation seemed to be to check out dimplex quantum heaters. There are some development projects for electric heating in the next few years (see real value under eu funded horizon2020 project).Possibly there will be improved grants in the future for heat pumps etc so I'm living with the old heaters for another while yet
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