Have you heard of a heating plinth in the kitchen?

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Man in Magnet today was talking about them.

They go under the kitchen units and blow hot air around.

Any experience of them?

Do you mean plinth heater? I have one in my kitchen - no room for a standard radiator. It is connected to the central heating system, and has 3 settings - no air blowing, some air blowing, and lots of air blowing IYSWIM.

I like it.

That's the one!

Is it like having a fan heater under your kitchen units?

We had one in our old house. It was a great space-saver and heated up the (small) kitchen very quickly, but it was quite noisy. We were offered a brown one which we thought was very 1970s (in a bad way!) so we got a stainless steel one. We had underfloor heating as well so the room was never freezing. The kickspace heater was useful for taking the chill off the air.

hth

Oooh at underfloor heating. DH thinks we won't need it. I'm worried because we're having a tile floor and the room is cold anyway.

I think we'll deffo try to get one of these heater thingies.

Are they expensive to run?

we have 2 - the kitchen had a radiator but we put a conservatory on it and had to rearrange the units and then had no space for a radiator.

We have underfloor heating in the consertavory bit but not in the kitchen (which I regret!!), so put the plint heaters in the kitchen.

The floor does get cold (more because of the conservatory than the lack of a radiator) but I have one heater on 1 (out of 6) and the other on 2 but on a timer so just on in the day. They only really come on when it is really cold.

They do blow cold air aswell for in the summer, but I don't use that.

We took the view that they were only £60 each so they might as well go in at the beginning although at that stage we didn't know if we would need them or not.

I would prefer a radiator (or underfloor heating - it is lovely in the conservatory) but these do the job.

We used to have one - called a kickspace plinth heater

It was great when it was new, esp on really cold mornings, but it gradually got less & less hot (maybe needed bleeding like an actual radiator) & then conked out altogether.

They're not expensive to run, just part of your CH

Myson. That's the one the man was talking about. Thanks.

I was trying to spell "meissen" in google. Which didn't work.

£59 from B&Q

That one's electric though, CS - 2kw, about 25p per hour

Noisy and expensive but useful in a small kitchen if you can't fit underfloor heating.

it's what we have (well not that exact one, ours is 6 years old).
They are set as per my earlier post and I would say they are on max 1 hour a day for maybe max 2 months a year. So overall not that expensive.
Would prefer underfloor heating though.