alternative heating systems

[njm]

i live on an all electric estate and ran heating off storage heaters, but to be honest, the are going getting took out because they are old and basicly unreliable

i just wondered if any body had any reasonable alternative heating systems for a house which cannot recieve gas

thanx

 

[Dan Robinson]

An Amptec electric boiler with traditional wet radiator system.

 

[njm]

An Amptec electric boiler with traditional wet radiator system.

many many thanx Dan have you a little bit more info

 

[Dan Robinson]

Well you have a traditional heating system with radiators and indirect cylinder. The Amptec boiler comes in various outputs and is essentially a dirty big kettle. But the system works like it would with a gas boiler.

It heats the water that is circulated round the system.

You could also look at thermal storage where a very large cylinder is heated using immersions (possibly taking advantage of economy seven). This heat is then stored and deceminated in various ways - Gledhill made them before they went belly up recently. I am not sure if the manufacturing arm is still operating.

 

[muggles]

You could have a boiler that runs off bottled gas...

 

[clf-gas]

Here have a butchers at this http://www.dealec.co.uk/acatalog/pdf/heatrae/Amptec.pdf

Use the link on last page for prices

 

[njm]

You could have a boiler that runs off bottled gas...

i have that system at the moment(calor) and its mega mega expensive, thats why i was looking at some cheaper electric alternatives

 

[Deleted member 105431]

gshp or ashp?

 

[oilman]

It is unusual for storage heaters to be unreliable. The best option would be to replace the heaters. The maintenance costs are much lower than other heating methods, and you do not inflict yourself with the problems of wet systems.

If anyone wants to check on the problems of wet systems, just trawl this forum.

 

[njm]

gshp or ashp?

47kg LPG

 

[BigBurner]

Best go for an all electric heat bank/ Thermal store that runs the rads.

Look at the Pulsacoil:
http://www.gledhill.net/building-products/bp-index.htm

 

[Deleted member 105431]

gshp or ashp?

47kg LPG

what has lpg got to do with ground source heat pumps and air source heat pumps?

 

[Dan Robinson]

BB they gone bust don't yah know?

 

[Norcon]

Came across this recently. Has Bigburner written all over it.
Well its close on 60kw.
Note the chair. That's for the dude sitting down trying too figure out what the 200 odd parameters in the controller are for.

 

[Dan Robinson]

tidy...