I have lived alone in a three bedroomed association house for 17 years and
now there is a plan to replace all the storage heaters with a hot water
system. This seems to be initiated by a government directive to make home
heating more efficient by using a heat pipe. Any efficiency gain would
obviously be lost by transmitting heat using water, rather than direct
electricity.
I am proposing that the installation of new radiators are fitted behind
inward opening doors in the bedrooms and living room, this is all dead wall
space and doesn't interfere with existing fitments. The upstairs landing
will be housing the electric boiler and would facililitate short runs of
pipework to the bedrooms, making a cleaner, more compact job.

My wife, who lives in the next village has had such a conversion, but with
gas as the heat source instead of electricity. This keeps breaking down and
the (engineer) has to come out to fiddle with the boiler, at least a couple
of dozen times now since 2019.

Question: Does the team think that putting the heaters behind the doors
would have any detrimental effect on heat distribution. All the storage
heaters are under windows at the moment, so immediately lose a huge amount
of heat, although double glazed.

Best regards