kitchen kick board heaters

[valiumredhead]

Exciting topic I know

We have the option of having a normal radiator or kick board heaters in our kitchen.

Sounds good but have no experience of them, would appreciate some info on them please especially running costs as I understand a fan is fitted too so there would be the cost of the electric as well?

Thanks in advance

We used to have a hydro fan heater. It worked off the central heating. Basically the pipe work that ran around the radiators was also fed through the fan heater which would blow the air over the lattice of hot pipes. Very effective it was too

Oh that sounds promising, thank you. More expensive to run than a radiator? Gas man said it would use a tiny amount of electric but don't trust him completely

I think it was called a hydrothermal fan heater or something. Either way you might not even use it much, it depends how much you're in the kitchen i.e. do you have a kitchen table, do you sit in there when the oven isn't on etc?

We have no heating at all in the kitchen atm so it would need to do the job of a traditional radiator.

We were told that they were not v efficient, but I don't have personal experience because we decided against them.

So now we have huge radiators which stuggle to heat the large, high-ceilinged kitchen/diner and I cannot help but wonder whether something low down would've been a good idea .

Sorry, not v helpful.

Hmmmm interesting. Dh is keen on a rad but beside we have cold stone tiles I do wonder if something floor level might work better.

I will never have tiles again, they're bloody freezing!

Beside? phone has a life of its own!

Underfloor heating is the dogs for tiled floor apparently. And I bet your tiles look a lot nicer than my laminate op.

Sorry, it's not even laminate, it's vinyl.

We got rid of the radiator in the kitchen and have a plinth heater. I can't help you on running costs but I can say it heats the room very quickly and so I only switch it on for short periods.

We had the option of under floor heating when the tiles were put down but Dh was dead against it because you have to replace the whole floor when and if it stops working.

What's a plinth heater, one of those narrow skirting board heaters?

Just googled plinth heaters-yes that's exactly what gas bloke was on about!

We have no wall space in our new kitchen diner, so we're going for vertical radiators. I was told that kickboard heaters are pricey to run, and I don't really like the way they look anyway.

MummytoMog, we have vertical radiators, 2 of them, and they are really not v efficient . I curse the lovely, spectacular high ceiling on a cold winter's day...

Oh no really? We are about to put vertical radiators in another room!

We have 10ft ceilings in one part of the room and double-height 'cathedral' ceiling in the other half (open plan kitchen/diner).
Stunning to look at (well it would be without all our clutter ), but hellish to heat.
It may be ok with conventional ceilings and a less than stupid room size.

Ah my grandparent's house is like that,I know what you mean. My kitchen is more modest