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Ah in that case, yeah sounds good. Always wondered why no one had made a storage heater for this century, apparently they have I just didn't spot them.
We bought some Rointe/ecoheater things from a UK seller, so overpriced for what is a bit of cast alloy and some very basic electronics. The Rointe's are quiet, the other ones click and clunk as they heat up and down, which is basically constant during the hours of use, no good if your a light sleeper. Both brands we've had screen failures within a year, and apparently they fail constantly, warranty only covers them for 2 years, beyond that you have to keep buying them.
So setting up a macro on 'Tuya Smart Life' app, which is a pretty handy free android app, will run on just about anything, can stick a cheap android tablet on the wall and control everything through it from the building, or remotely via your wifi to each and every unit in your system, or setup some programmable blank switchs in your house, and just put a label on 'boost', set to 20c, set to off, hot water only etc. We've got a dehumidifier puking into a bucket and the immersion heater on it as well so can see whats going on at any one time, total overkill, but the inner geek wants to know if I accidentally left the hot water on 'boost' for a week at a time in an unused house, extra especially when your electric bill is £10 a day+
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the other ones click and clunk as they heat up and down, which is basically constant during the hours of use, no good if your a light sleeper
I wouldn’t have one in the bedroom as the fan might wake a light sleeper but the small amount of heat given off on an overnight charge will keep the chill off if you program it to come on at waking time but that kind of defeats the object of having a warm room to wake up to.
I just fitted an oil filled rad with a timer (and a setting to turn the beep off and dim the display for bedrooms) and leave the door open to hallway with it’s storage heater.£10+ a day?? think the highest bill i ever had was £200 a month when it was around freezing for the whole of january and -1º 0r -2º overnight.
people with gas CH have had it far too easy...
Mr_Smyth
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.