Anyone in a newbuild with electric heating?

[ginghamstarfish]

Looking to buy (possibly) a new build which has 'smart' electric heating and solar panels. No gas, no woodburners. It's a medium sized development, not a small builder.
Heaters are wall panel heaters by Rointe, the 'smart' thing is that you control it by app. Still waiting for details of solar panel Kw etc. Looks like 8 panels from the brochure pics.
However it doesn't seem like a good idea given current electricity prices, and I get the impression that the builders have skimped when they should have installed ASHPs instead. Obviously the house would have modern standards of insulation etc, but wondering if anyone has similar and how they find it?

We had electric radiators in our last house. This was way before the current energy crisis and our electricity was costing us around £600 per month over winter. This was with just heating the room we were in. I hate to think what it would cost is now at the current electricity pricing. I would never buy a house with electric heating again.

I'm not in a new build, I live in a small bungalow built round 1980. It was storage heaters when I moved in which I disliked intensely so I had Rointe panels heaters installed. They have proven to be extortionate and in the coldest months my bills are around £280-300. This is a one-bedroom bungalow so imagine how much a house would be.

I have solar panels and gas heating in an old house. In summer, I don’t pay anything for electricity (and regularly get paid £100+ for export).

In winter (when I use heating), I don’t generate enough electricity to even power my light bulbs, never mind my heating and so you’d be paying full price for heating.

I do have batteries though so I can charge them overnight on a cheap tariff and so only pay 7p for 99% of my electricity, but I don’t think I’d have enough battery capacity to run heating during the day at that rate too.

It's probably not so bad. It depends on really how well the house is insulated.

Which is something you are unlikely to find out until you live in it.

If the house is say a mid terrace, and has been insulated to within an inch of its life it will probably be fine. You may need a bit of heat on really cold days, and it will be expensive when you do use it, but most of the time you won't need them on at all.

The advantage of electric is there is pretty much zero maintenance (£100 a year to service a boiler), they are easy and cheap to replace if they break and no torrents of dirty radiator water if the radiators break. You can direct power much more on a room by room basis and lower your costs that way. The disadvantage of course is the heating will be expensive when you do use it.

Solar will be useless in winter when you really need the heat. But in spring and summer it will be fine. I would check and see whether it has one of those solar direct to hot water heaters, because they are quite good for most of the year and will decrease the electric bill spent on hot water significantly.

I have one panel heater like you mention, controlled by app. Like any other electric heater it is 100% efficient. So not much really more to say about it other than they are cheap to buy, easy to mount, look swish and cost a lot to run.

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"I have one panel heater like you mention, controlled by app. Like any other electric heater it is 100% efficient. So not much really more to say about it other than they are cheap to buy, easy to mount, look swish and cost a lot to run"

The app (if they are Rointe) is very useful and yes, they do look swish but my neighbours have ground source heating which I would much prefer.