Electric heaters instead of central heating. Any experience?

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I viewed a house to rent yesterday and really like it, but it doesn't have central heating, just electric heaters in each room. It's a terraced house in the middle, and is a 2 bed. It would only be me & DS living there.
Is it much more expensive to run heaters? Do they heat up the house well?

it depends - are they night storage heaters? If so, these can work fairly well if a)reasonably modern so have good controls and b) used correctly with the correct tariff. However you are tied to the cheap rate times and always need to plan ahead.

if non-storage heaters then no.

electric heaters are close to 100% efficient but heating by electricity costs more per unit.

I have lived somewhere with electric heaters and the cost was a joke. I think there were quite old ones.
Im also looking for a house at the moment and i won't even consider one with storage heaters.
If the house is advertised with an estate agent it should have an energy report with it, this will give you a rough idea if heating costs.

Thanks for the replies. I'm not sure if they're storage heaters or not, I'll get onto the estate agent. I love the house but I'm just not sure about them!

Electric is loads more expensive. Storage heaters are shitola ime

Martin Lewis agrees with me!

expensive, and storage heaters fire out most of the heat during the day leaving you cold in the evening, despite all the flappy vent things to ajust.

More expensive than gas and less flexible.

I would avoid storage heaters - they pump out heat all night while you're in bed and don't need it then by 8pm the house is cold.

Gas. The only decent heating option bar renewables like a ground/air source heat pump or a wood burning stove.

We had storage heaters, they were awfull. I now have a full collection of thermal underwear from those days. It was that cold.

Oh my it is so much more expensive and so cold. We moved in last year, literally jumpers on to sleep, hot water bottles all the time. My son has little red feet when you take his socks off. The house is NEVER warm and the best bit... £280 per month for the privilege of being bloody cold ALWAYS. We have one heater on in the living room when its really cold, one in the bathroom and hand on heart that is it

Oh yeah i have a heater on to dry my washing on from 12-5am but everything else is off then. I stupidly thought it wouldnt be that bad, as surely its cheaper to heat one room then a whole house- apparently not!!! I have one convector and two oil filled radiators