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Check with your energy provider what times the off peak power comes and goes. We've found (can hear the old radio 4 box clunking away day and night) that there are several heating periods, quite a few during day to top up those storage heaters. Would say storage type electric heaters only really relavent if your older (wake up at 5am) and stay home a lot, if your up late and then not home very much, the amount you save off peak/on peak costs is wiped out by heating an empty home.
We ended up just going direct regular electric panel heaters (have a concrete or oil core) as we are the latter category.
BrickMan-
the fused spur has an LED on it so i know the times.
Quantum storage heaters lose hardly any heat as it’s a fan that lets the heat out not a crude letterbox flap connected to a manual dial like the old fashioned ones, plus it’s controlled by a computer/thermostat and programmable with an ‘out all day’ setting.
I had old ones before and to get 22° on a winters evening it would be boiling hot in the morning even with the vent closed and then run out of heat late evening.don’t think you can even get the dumb heaters any more as they don’t pass regs and will not get you a C rated EPC.
Mr_Smyth
Or get quantum storage heaters, they retain heat better than old style heaters and are computer controlled so learn how much to charge up based on ambient temps. You can tell them if you are in or out and program the times to suit you. New ones run on an app (I have the older version) don’t think you can even buy heaters without a proper timer now and you will not get a C grade on EPC