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AIBU?

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to hate E7 heating!!!

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TinyPawz · 01/12/2009 13:30

I cannot get my flat to a comfortable heat. It is either freezing cold or boiling hot.

There a 3 E7 heaters downstairs (2 in sitting room - I think this used to be 2 rooms- and 1 in the hall) The kitchen has a small wall mounted blow heater as does the bathroom. The 2 bedrooms have much larger blow heaters.

I try not to put the heater on in my room unless very very bitter cold when I am getting ready for bed. I put DD room heater on when I come in out of work (about 6.30) and then her room in nice and cosy for her going to bed at 7.30-8ish.

During the week (Mon -Thurs) I only have one heater on downstairs in the sitting room (warm for when DD gets up and she is at my mums allday & I work FT). The other days I have all 3 on so nice and warm and to dry clothes.

Kitchen & Bathroom are always brass money territory.

So anyway the weekend when the 3 heaters are on, it is uncomfortably stuffy/hot in the morning but by the afternoon it is just nice and the evenings it is freezing and I have to put on an oilfilled heater thingy.

Any ideas on how to control the temp abit more?

ps this is my 1st winter in the this flat

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pjmama · 01/12/2009 13:58

I had to put up with E7 heaters for 3 Pennine winters, they are bloody rubbish!! My house was lovely and warm in the morning and all day (while I was out at work) and had gone cold by the time I got home and positively Arctic by the time I went to bed. Plus because you have to put it on or off the night before you want it, if you get an unseasonably hot or cold day your house temperature is all wrong. Hated it with a passion but couldn't afford to install proper central heating!

I bought a portable fan heater and just used to carry it from room to room with me in the depths of winter.

OtterInaSkoda · 01/12/2009 17:34

YANBU - E7 is beyond crap. I ended up not using any of the radiators other than the one in the sitting room. Fortunately I'd already got a couple of portable radiators that I used instead, having moved from a flat with no heating at all.

ruddynorah · 01/12/2009 17:38

eugh. i had e7 in my old flat. hated it. never could figure out how to work it properly. i had ice on the inside of my bathroom window. put up with it for a year before i moved out.

ImSoNotTelling · 01/12/2009 17:46

Yes it is a nightmare. In my flat I was always pleased that it was lovely and toasty when I left for work in the morning, and all day while I was at work, then by the time I got home and actually wanted to sit around in the place it was sub-zero. paying to heat an empty flat always made me .

I also used to often switch the convection heater thing on in the evenings and then forget I'd done it and wake up in the AM to a boiling hot flat and £££ down the drain.

YANBU at all.

TheFoosa · 01/12/2009 17:50

yanbu they are shite, you have to plan what settings you want the day before you want it

boiling in the morning and freezing at night

I can't afford ch either, but have removed most of the e7 heaters and have oil filled radiaters on as and when needed

AKMD · 01/12/2009 18:02

YANBU, the only time I've turned my heaters on was in February when it was snowing. It is freezing but that's what nice, snuggly jumpers and DHs are for

roulade · 01/12/2009 18:13

Oil filled radiators are great. We have warm air heating in our flat except in the bedrooms where there is nothing so we bought one for each bedroom with timers on so it's a bit like ch in those rooms at least.

OtterInaSkoda · 01/12/2009 18:19

My flat was HA/council. I developed an almighty chip on my shoulder that whoever decided that E7 was the way forward for their housing stock must've assumed that we all sat on our arses all day, hence needed the heat then. And perhaps either streetwalked (younger tenants) or supped milk stout in the club (older ones) all evening, every evening. I suspect I was being a little U. But wtf were they thinking - toasty by day, frosted by night?
Do they still fit it these days? My flat had been last "improved" many years before I got it.

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TinyPawz · 01/12/2009 18:37

The block was built in the 60s but I bought my flat in the summer. I have used E7 before and I am so not impressed.

Otter that would be my opinion too.

There is no gas lines in the street and because I am a top flat, I can't have oil. So basically I'm screwed.

Jumpers/layers are the way forward until I can afford to buy elsewhere.

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TheFoosa · 01/12/2009 19:42

yes, my house is ex council too

laloue · 01/12/2009 20:03

What a relief! I'd never encountered it until I started renting this flat 2 odd years ago. I've spent two winters twiddling input and output knobs to no avail,hot when we're ou, cold when we're in, fabulous! I really though I was missing something! So, fleecy blankets and oil filled heater for another winter then!

ImSoNotTelling · 01/12/2009 20:04

My flat isn't ex council, and was built in the 80's. It's a cheap thing to install, so the people building the developments liked it. They don't give a monkeys that everyone who lives there will be randomly hot/cold and heat will be wasted on empty spaces, with inhabitants paying £££ for the privilege!

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