Electric Heating

[Rogue Trader]

I bought a house recently, just moved in, it has electric heating and it's doing my nut, gas is available but probably stuck with electric this winter. We have solar panels too which I am also trying to work out which gives about £400 in free electricity, spending about a fiver a day without doing much on electric as a result (Light and heat). Has anyone got any past experience using it for their heating? Also waiting on the chimney to be cleaned before we can get the fire going, electric feels like such an expensive way to heat your home, guessing they used it when it was cheap and during the night and then lit the fire during the day but that is a guess.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I bought a house recently, just moved in, it has electric heating and it's doing my nut, gas is available but probably stuck with electric this winter. We have solar panels too which I am also trying to work out which gives about £400 in free electricity, spending about a fiver a day without doing much on electric as a result (Light and heat). Has anyone got any past experience using it for their heating? Also waiting on the chimney to be cleaned before we can get the fire going, electric feels like such an expensive way to heat your home, guessing they used it when it was cheap and during the night and then lit the fire during the day but that is a guess.

led light bulbs.
wear another layer that covers your arms.
only heat the immediate room you are in.
adequate fuel in you, 'tis the season for hearty stews and roast dinners.

 

[The binman chronicles]

I bought a house recently, just moved in, it has electric heating and it's doing my nut, gas is available but probably stuck with electric this winter. We have solar panels too which I am also trying to work out which gives about £400 in free electricity, spending about a fiver a day without doing much on electric as a result (Light and heat). Has anyone got any past experience using it for their heating? Also waiting on the chimney to be cleaned before we can get the fire going, electric feels like such an expensive way to heat your home, guessing they used it when it was cheap and during the night and then lit the fire during the day but that is a guess.

Have you got a battery system to go with the solar panels? If not worth investigating, you can then fill up the batteries using the cheap rates overnight and then run space heaters/electric fires in conjunction with what the panels pole out.

Relatively cheap to heat your home when in place. Granted it's a bit of an outlay to start with and that has to be weighed up.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Have you got a battery system to go with the solar panels? If not worth investigating, you can then fill up the batteries using the cheap rates overnight and then run space heaters/electric fires in conjunction with what the panels pole out.

Relatively cheap to heat your home when in place. Granted it's a bit of an outlay to start with and that has to be weighed up.

Thank you for the reply, mate I have a massive red knob that has over it written "Solar PV system point of a emergency switching", I have 2 meters one seems to be named a removed meter the other is referred to as the installed meter, they left us very little information on them and they are with an electrical supplier named outfox the market. Just scratching my head with it all, any ideas what I have is much appreciated.

 

[LostLegend]

I have a massive red knob

 

[The binman chronicles]

Thank you for the reply, mate I have a massive red knob that has over it written "Solar PV system point of a emergency switching", I have 2 meters one seems to be named a removed meter the other is referred to as the installed meter, they left us very little information on them and they are with an electrical supplier named outfox the market. Just scratching my head with it all, any ideas what I have is much appreciated.

Best to take some pictures and someone here might know. You should have an inverter somewhere (a fairly big unit, possibly in the loft) that turns the DC into AC for use. Batteries tend to be close by to that if you have any.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Come on someone, this account moved into a new home recently and didn't take the leccy and heating into account. How.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Best to take some pictures and someone here might know. You should have an inverter somewhere (a fairly big unit, possibly in the loft) that turns the DC into AC for use. Batteries tend to be close by to that if you have any.

Good man, will take a few pics and post on here, thanks mate.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Come on someone, this account moved into a new home recently and didn't take the leccy and heating into account. How.

Of course I did, just thought it would be a lot more straight forward than it is.

 

[heatmeiser]

I bought a house recently, just moved in, it has electric heating and it's doing my nut, gas is available but probably stuck with electric this winter. We have solar panels too which I am also trying to work out which gives about £400 in free electricity, spending about a fiver a day without doing much on electric as a result (Light and heat). Has anyone got any past experience using it for their heating? Also waiting on the chimney to be cleaned before we can get the fire going, electric feels like such an expensive way to heat your home, guessing they used it when it was cheap and during the night and then lit the fire during the day but that is a guess.

I agree with you there mate

 

[Bedfordblue]

Too much talk of big red knobs and large units for my liking

 

[Connor mcloud]

I know someone who can help with your problem

 

[PhilM]

Is it a relatively new home? If so, and it's well insulated, you could look for a heat pump and there are grants out there to help pay towards it.

The solar panels can help contribute to the electricity needed to run an air or ground source heat pump.