On 13/01/2021 13:44, Andrew wrote:
On 13/01/2021 06:01, Funny Lingus wrote:
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

You should tell the housing association to spend the money on better
insulation and more modern storage heaters, which is *FAR* more cost
effective.

Fitting a new wet radiator system, heated by electricity to an existing
(not perticularly new) property could only be dreamed up by a
completely clueless greenie numpty. An utterly expensive folly, only
made possible by the fact that they are spending other peoples taxes.


+1

Replacing the existing storage heaters with modern ones in living rooms
and fitting panel radiators in bedrooms is the optimum solution and
should be the cheapest to install as the circuits are already in place.