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Completely O/T - night storage heating
Sorry this has nothing to do with babies and can't see an O/T section!
We are moving house in a couple of weeks and the house is perfect except the village it's in is not connected to gas mains. This means the house is heated by electric night storage heaters.
I have never had these before so any tips/advice etc would be great. My understanding is that they heat up overnight on a cheap electricity rate and released heat in the day depending on how much you set the 'output' to. So if you have them on max they let out lots of heat but quickly run out and then you've lost your heating for the day (unless you 'boost' which I guess is very expensive).
How effective are they? What's the best way to use them? How expensive are they really?
Each heater has it's own power switch so I guess the rooms we don't use much can be totally switched off which would save on cash.
Even though a cold house is not ideal, I know we will get used to being cold. When I was a child we lived in a listed building which had no heating what so ever and although it was horrible at first we soon adapted and just wrapped up really warm! I love snuggling under a big fleecy blanket and duvet anyway and I'd much rather be too cold than too hot!
Any info welcome
We are moving house in a couple of weeks and the house is perfect except the village it's in is not connected to gas mains. This means the house is heated by electric night storage heaters.
I have never had these before so any tips/advice etc would be great. My understanding is that they heat up overnight on a cheap electricity rate and released heat in the day depending on how much you set the 'output' to. So if you have them on max they let out lots of heat but quickly run out and then you've lost your heating for the day (unless you 'boost' which I guess is very expensive).
How effective are they? What's the best way to use them? How expensive are they really?
Each heater has it's own power switch so I guess the rooms we don't use much can be totally switched off which would save on cash.
Even though a cold house is not ideal, I know we will get used to being cold. When I was a child we lived in a listed building which had no heating what so ever and although it was horrible at first we soon adapted and just wrapped up really warm! I love snuggling under a big fleecy blanket and duvet anyway and I'd much rather be too cold than too hot!
Any info welcome
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The house has a log-burning fire which I guess will help a bit but it's a 3-bed so quite large.
Oh bloody hell ... panicking now we've made a bad decision. Well at least we're renting so we can move in 6 months if it's terrible. Mind, that will be after the winter!
The whole point of moving is to get more space for a LO in the future and now I feel terrible that it's going to be too cold for them ( But surely people cope all over the UK in houses like this?!
Thanks for the truthful replies though x
Hallo.
I've bought a 1000w oil filled radiator. I've had it on very low for the last couple of nights, so now baby's room is not cold but not hot! Perfect! Thanks for Advice...