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Hi,
we currently have night storage heaters in our 3 bed semi, but I wish to replace this with a wet central heating system. Unfortunately, Gas isn't available and neither is oil/lpg due to the regulations and also access problems (but that's another story!). The roof slants East (rear is shaded by neighbour), so solar is out of the question. Not enough space for GSHP either
We are thus only left with electric. I have been looking at a thermal store type system, and have come across two companies who offer a combined thermal store that supplies wet radiators and hot water. They are the Electramate from Gledhill (under apartments) and the Etech-S from ACV .
However, I am a bit worried about the performance of these and whether they would be any better than night storage heaters. The Electramate seems better as it is designed for economy 7 (10 isn't available where we are), but it's recommended for 1-2 bed apartments, not 3 bed semis, so I'm worried about whether it is powerfull enough, and whether we'd have to keep boosting it using on-peak electricity tariffs.
The ETECH-S seems better, but isn't optimised for offf-peak usage. You can heat the thermal store overnight, but if you use it during the day, then it will reheat it up...kinda defeats the object really.
So, does anyone have any experience of these, or other systems? Does anyone know the 'best' way to have electric wet central heating?
Would appreciate some pointers and advice as it's all too complicated!!!!
we currently have night storage heaters in our 3 bed semi, but I wish to replace this with a wet central heating system. Unfortunately, Gas isn't available and neither is oil/lpg due to the regulations and also access problems (but that's another story!). The roof slants East (rear is shaded by neighbour), so solar is out of the question. Not enough space for GSHP either
We are thus only left with electric. I have been looking at a thermal store type system, and have come across two companies who offer a combined thermal store that supplies wet radiators and hot water. They are the Electramate from Gledhill (under apartments) and the Etech-S from ACV .
However, I am a bit worried about the performance of these and whether they would be any better than night storage heaters. The Electramate seems better as it is designed for economy 7 (10 isn't available where we are), but it's recommended for 1-2 bed apartments, not 3 bed semis, so I'm worried about whether it is powerfull enough, and whether we'd have to keep boosting it using on-peak electricity tariffs.
The ETECH-S seems better, but isn't optimised for offf-peak usage. You can heat the thermal store overnight, but if you use it during the day, then it will reheat it up...kinda defeats the object really.
So, does anyone have any experience of these, or other systems? Does anyone know the 'best' way to have electric wet central heating?
Would appreciate some pointers and advice as it's all too complicated!!!!
