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Not sure if this would be better in electrics - please move if so. I've searched the forum but not come up with anything recent to answer my questions.
My very elderly mother lives in a small one bedroom flat in a purpose built 1980s-vintage retirement block. She has two wall mounted storage heaters, probably the original ones, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. Nothing in the hall or kitchen and a wall mounted fan heater in the bathroom which she finds she doesn't need to use as the bathroom wall is back to back with the living room storage heater and it stays warm.
She's like most elderly people, worries about her bills and keeps the place a bit on the cold side. I think she also sometimes forgets to adjust the heating for what the weather's going to do the next day. She's been using two fan heaters to top-up the living room and bedroom, mostly in the evenings.
She would like to replace the two storage heaters - they're very bulky and ugly. I've seen pics of modern storage heaters and they're certainly more attractive but are they any more efficient/flexible? Would wall-mounted oil-filled rads be a better solution? Or something else (there's no gas in the block). I want to find whatever it is that will keep her most comfortable with least fiddling/intervention. Thanks in advance!
Edit - forgot to add that the storage heaters are on the Economy 7 tariff.
My very elderly mother lives in a small one bedroom flat in a purpose built 1980s-vintage retirement block. She has two wall mounted storage heaters, probably the original ones, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. Nothing in the hall or kitchen and a wall mounted fan heater in the bathroom which she finds she doesn't need to use as the bathroom wall is back to back with the living room storage heater and it stays warm.
She's like most elderly people, worries about her bills and keeps the place a bit on the cold side. I think she also sometimes forgets to adjust the heating for what the weather's going to do the next day. She's been using two fan heaters to top-up the living room and bedroom, mostly in the evenings.
She would like to replace the two storage heaters - they're very bulky and ugly. I've seen pics of modern storage heaters and they're certainly more attractive but are they any more efficient/flexible? Would wall-mounted oil-filled rads be a better solution? Or something else (there's no gas in the block). I want to find whatever it is that will keep her most comfortable with least fiddling/intervention. Thanks in advance!
Edit - forgot to add that the storage heaters are on the Economy 7 tariff.
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