Electric Storage Heaters

[wintersdreams]

Hi All!

Could do with some tips or advice- in October I moved into an electric only 2 bed terrace with storage heaters and my electric bill is topping £170 a month! I wouldn’t begrudge paying £170 as much if the house was warm but I’m absolutely freezing all the time. I’ve got an electric blanket, hot water bottles, wear jumpers etc… but it’s just a bit miserable and I dread to think what it’s going to end up being like in April when the energy prices rise.

I’ve recently changed from a prepayment to a credit meter to see if this would help but last night I put 1 storage heater on downstairs in the living room and 1 upstairs in the bedroom and it’s cost almost £7 to charge them overnight (and by the time the evening comes you can barely tell they’ve be on at all)

I don’t know if it’s the storage heaters that are rubbish or the fact the house isn’t well insulated or if I don’t have them set correctly!. I’ve heard oil filled radiators are good so I don’t know whether to just turn off the storage heaters and invest in a couple of those instead?

Is this just what storage heaters are like and I’m doomed to live in the cold forever more?!

I'm very sorry. We had storage heaters in our first flat and they really, really are not much good

They are supposed to heat up overnight on low electricity rates and discharge heat all day. In face, Ubers is little control so that by the end of the day when you need heat the most there is none left

We used them as background heating then had oil filled radiators to provide more heat. But very expensive on top

Sorry, no good news there.

We stopped using ours this winter and will look at getting them taken out completely and replaced next winter. We just use a stand alone fan heater or a wall mounted electric heater when we need it. Our storage heaters barely makes a difference to the temperature of the room and are SO costly. Especially because we are out most of the day and only need heating in the evenings.

I have these too. I've turned them off except for the one in the hall which is actually quite good at keeping the house warm. I turn that one off in milder weather, but you do need to keep an eye on weather forecasts with this kind of heating - I've been caught out a few time when the weather has been hot and I've forgotten to turn it off and vice versa.

What's really helped us a very powerful dehumidifier to suck out all the damp, which I run constantly (it turns itself on and off to keep the house at a set humidity level) and I use plug in heaters for short blasts of heat as needed. It's a horrible system with no cheap, easy fix.