I'm Treasurer for a charity run preschool which has it's own building heated with cheap electric panel heaters, fitted by the builders about 4 years ago. It's 2 large rooms, plus small office and kitchen. As you can imagine, the electricity bill is buttock clenchingly high! This is not helped by the heaters being left on overnight this weather as they don't have time switches and it's the only way to have the building warm when people arrive.
There is no gas supply. We are looking to upgrade the heating and as the building is only used between 8am and 5pm, it occurred to me storage heaters on Economy 7 might be a good way forward. While the heating was obviously installed to a price, it has a massive hot water tank, which could also be on economy 7.
What I'd like to do is link the new heaters in 3 zones using central controls for charging, thermostats and timers. I see on the dimplex site they have central charge controllers, but it's not clear if you can use a single thermostat/timer for each zone (as with gas radiator heating), rather than individual controls on the heaters. I looked at Creda, etc, but go no further forward.
I'd be very grateful for advice!
Thanks, Barry
There is no gas supply. We are looking to upgrade the heating and as the building is only used between 8am and 5pm, it occurred to me storage heaters on Economy 7 might be a good way forward. While the heating was obviously installed to a price, it has a massive hot water tank, which could also be on economy 7.
What I'd like to do is link the new heaters in 3 zones using central controls for charging, thermostats and timers. I see on the dimplex site they have central charge controllers, but it's not clear if you can use a single thermostat/timer for each zone (as with gas radiator heating), rather than individual controls on the heaters. I looked at Creda, etc, but go no further forward.
I'd be very grateful for advice!
Thanks, Barry