Desperately seeking some sensible advice here!!!
I am refurbishing a house out in the middle of nowhere and coupled to that the house is so small I only have room for storage heating!
The house is so small I am only fitting one combi storage/convector heater which should serve the whole house. I do have a multifuel stove tho which will be the main source of heat. To complete the picture I am also fitting panel heaters in the bedrooms, (tho I anticipate they will not be required).
The tricky bit is the bathroom where I am fitting electric underfloor heating. (The walls and floor are well insulated so I should be OK.)
I have been in e-mail communications with the so called "customer services" team at Scottish Power and am now on my 5th customer service advisor, and each time they don't answer my questions directly and usually say something in conflict with the previous advisor!!!!! Very frustrating!!!!!
What I would like to know is whether there is anyway I can wangle things to take advantage of the "White Meter ComfortPlus" package that I am on, with respect to the underfloor heating. The heating will probably be on 24/7, tho at different heat levels across the day, so could I maybe have a dual feed, (one from the ordinary fuse box and one from the heating fuse box), going into a Economy 7 time switch (like a Horstmann Electronic 7), with the timer set to run 24 hours a day?
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I don't know if Scottish Power are evading my questions, or are just staffed with people fortunate enough to have gas central heating and not trained enough to understand the foibles of their own services, but I would be chuffed to bits if someone can advise me of anyway to not have this heating costing me a fortune to run!!
Had a look at the pics in the WIKI when I was checking this out.....they're incredible!
P.S. When I say "wangle", I mean 'creatively'. I'm not interested in doing anything dodgy, as I will no doubt have to print off any advice here to give my electrician a steer in the right direction!
Thanks.
I am refurbishing a house out in the middle of nowhere and coupled to that the house is so small I only have room for storage heating!
The house is so small I am only fitting one combi storage/convector heater which should serve the whole house. I do have a multifuel stove tho which will be the main source of heat. To complete the picture I am also fitting panel heaters in the bedrooms, (tho I anticipate they will not be required).
The tricky bit is the bathroom where I am fitting electric underfloor heating. (The walls and floor are well insulated so I should be OK.)
I have been in e-mail communications with the so called "customer services" team at Scottish Power and am now on my 5th customer service advisor, and each time they don't answer my questions directly and usually say something in conflict with the previous advisor!!!!! Very frustrating!!!!!
What I would like to know is whether there is anyway I can wangle things to take advantage of the "White Meter ComfortPlus" package that I am on, with respect to the underfloor heating. The heating will probably be on 24/7, tho at different heat levels across the day, so could I maybe have a dual feed, (one from the ordinary fuse box and one from the heating fuse box), going into a Economy 7 time switch (like a Horstmann Electronic 7), with the timer set to run 24 hours a day?
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I don't know if Scottish Power are evading my questions, or are just staffed with people fortunate enough to have gas central heating and not trained enough to understand the foibles of their own services, but I would be chuffed to bits if someone can advise me of anyway to not have this heating costing me a fortune to run!!
Had a look at the pics in the WIKI when I was checking this out.....they're incredible!
P.S. When I say "wangle", I mean 'creatively'. I'm not interested in doing anything dodgy, as I will no doubt have to print off any advice here to give my electrician a steer in the right direction!
Thanks.