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It's a 200 odd year old, stone built farmhouse in quite an exposed rural location. The infra red will be a secondary form of heating alongside a couple of log burners. Just a bit stuck with what other form of heating to use. I don't like the idea of oil filled radiators, the property lacks insulation for an air source heat pump, worried electric radiators might be heinously expensive.
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We have radiators connected to a lasian 45kw wood boiler. If wood is free?
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Nothing will work very well if it isn’t insulated. Heating using electricity is expensive, probably even if you have a heat pump to multiply the kWs of electricity you put in. Even more so if you’re just converting electricity to heat (infrared panel or any electric heater).
Putting in any form of water-based central heating will be more expensive to install. Air pumps and ground pumps the same. IR panels are much cheaper to install. They’re good-ish but weird, they don’t exactly heat the air up in the same way as a radiator, but radiate heat from the panel to heat “things” ie you.
An alternative / addition is electric storage heaters - older ones are too hot at the start of the day and cold by the evenings, but I’m told the new ones are much better. That requires the installation of economy 7 (use cheaper overnight electricity to heat up the bricks in the heater, slowly let it out all day/evening).
If there was economy 7 installed in the past and the circuit is still there, get new storage heaters + IR panels. Get both with timers or ideally smart, so you can turn them on and off remotely. If no econo 7, IR panels seem fairly good to me. I have a combination of smart electric convection radiators and IR panels, and will have some storage heaters too. I didn’t get all IR, because they were more expensive and I didn’t fancy it in bedrooms personally.
Now wait for someone to disagree with everything I’ve said!
skinny
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I think they could be right, but most economical is a tough one, as in a 1850s flat would "want" heating ~5-6+ months a year but a 2012 build 5-6 days per year