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A few years ago I built a detached building in my garden for work. A single course of bricks thick with a flat wood roof and foam insulated walls. Plastered, painted, the whole nine yards.
The local council consider it to be a shed because it has no bed or fixed heat source.
Up until I've been using an electric oil-free radiator to heat the room in the winter. The problem is that while the heater does manage to heat the room nicely it does take a few hours to heat up the room from a cold start. The unit comes with a timer but the real issue is that as soon as I've turned off the heater the room loses its heat very quickly.
My house actually has electric storage heaters since there is no gas supply to the property. I recently began to think about the possibility of installing a storage heater in my garden room as a way of producing more heat at a cheaper cost.
Here's the rub; my electricity is supplied to my garden room via an armoured cable taken from my house socket wiring circuit. The room has its own mini consumer unit.
If I were to fit a storage heater how would I get it to take advantage of my economy 7 tariff?
My house heaters are on their own seperate circuit for the Economy 7. I'm unwilling to dig up my patio and install a seperate supply cable and plug socket.
Could I fit a plug to the garden room heater's cable and plug this into a timer and plug that into an existing plug socket?
Finally, how to I fix the heater to the wall since there is nothing behind the plaster but foam insulation for a couple of inches.
The local council consider it to be a shed because it has no bed or fixed heat source.
Up until I've been using an electric oil-free radiator to heat the room in the winter. The problem is that while the heater does manage to heat the room nicely it does take a few hours to heat up the room from a cold start. The unit comes with a timer but the real issue is that as soon as I've turned off the heater the room loses its heat very quickly.
My house actually has electric storage heaters since there is no gas supply to the property. I recently began to think about the possibility of installing a storage heater in my garden room as a way of producing more heat at a cheaper cost.
Here's the rub; my electricity is supplied to my garden room via an armoured cable taken from my house socket wiring circuit. The room has its own mini consumer unit.
If I were to fit a storage heater how would I get it to take advantage of my economy 7 tariff?
My house heaters are on their own seperate circuit for the Economy 7. I'm unwilling to dig up my patio and install a seperate supply cable and plug socket.
Could I fit a plug to the garden room heater's cable and plug this into a timer and plug that into an existing plug socket?
Finally, how to I fix the heater to the wall since there is nothing behind the plaster but foam insulation for a couple of inches.