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Choosing a new heating system advice.... please
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 236302" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>My advice for heating a rental property is completely different to what you would want to do for your own house.</p><p></p><p>What you want is something reliable, that needs no, or infrequent servicing, and is safe.</p><p></p><p>And the winner of that is electric heating, usually in a combination of storage heaters and panel heaters.</p><p></p><p>We have two rental properties, and the one with storage heaters never gives any trouble whatsoever. The other with oil fired central heating needs annual servicing and breaks down about once a year.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps as you have radiators already you might want to consider an electric boiler. That heats the water when needed in just the same way as a gas or oil boiler. you need to combine that with an Economy 7, or preferably Economy 10 tariff if that's available from your supplier.</p><p></p><p>Unlike storage heaters, you would only need the one feed from the meter to your flat, so no major rework, and it just need the meter in the cupboard downstairs changed for a dual rate E10 tariff.</p><p></p><p>you then set the boilers time switch to heat the flat in the morning while it's still on the cheap rate, and (if you have E10) set it again to heat up during the mid day cheap period. Most of the evening heating will unfortunately be at the peak rate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 236302, member: 6969"] My advice for heating a rental property is completely different to what you would want to do for your own house. What you want is something reliable, that needs no, or infrequent servicing, and is safe. And the winner of that is electric heating, usually in a combination of storage heaters and panel heaters. We have two rental properties, and the one with storage heaters never gives any trouble whatsoever. The other with oil fired central heating needs annual servicing and breaks down about once a year. Perhaps as you have radiators already you might want to consider an electric boiler. That heats the water when needed in just the same way as a gas or oil boiler. you need to combine that with an Economy 7, or preferably Economy 10 tariff if that's available from your supplier. Unlike storage heaters, you would only need the one feed from the meter to your flat, so no major rework, and it just need the meter in the cupboard downstairs changed for a dual rate E10 tariff. you then set the boilers time switch to heat the flat in the morning while it's still on the cheap rate, and (if you have E10) set it again to heat up during the mid day cheap period. Most of the evening heating will unfortunately be at the peak rate. [/QUOTE]
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