A customer had an old electric storage heater which no longer works. No product markings on it so we're assuming asbestos content given the age.

Can anyone recommend an up to date storage heater or if not just a reasonable quality electric radiator to be used when required?

Thanks

Aargh! What rubbish that Lot 20 seems to be!

Misusing a basic and important word such as 'efficiency' for some arbitrary scale of unwanted complication and expense seems like something that should be punished by a firing squad IMHO.

All on demand electric rads and fan heaters are 100% efficient. Having "cores" made of fancy materials makes no difference. So if you really must switch from storage to on demand/instant don't pay the really silly money some companies ask.

PS I mean 100% efficient as in all the electricity going in is turned into heat. Not the useless Lot 20 definition.

Tony, agreed.

We run one in the wifes shop. But as this is a single room application I can't see how this would be justified.

What about for storage heaters?

Or just go with point of use?

Posted By: WillInAberdeenThey had individual digital thermostats and time clocks which are also important. Despite its obvious faults this Lot20 seems to be making those mandatory which is good.

I disagree. I agree that an appropriate control system is a very good idea, but there's no reason why the control system must be part of the heater. None of mine are, for example. Lumping control systems into heaters simply results in duplication and also a more severe operating environment for the control system in most cases. I'd much rather have separate components.

But you were still (thinking of?) selling a unit with an integrated control system. I have complete separation. For example, a simple radiant bar heater powered by a separate fused connection unit that includes the control electronics. Or my post heater that is powered via a separate wifi-controlled plug, that is in turn controlled by a Raspberry Pi. So the parts are completely separate, bought at different times in different places from different people. And can be replaced separately if my needs change or if one part fails.

I don't have any problem with making integrated products for people that do want them, but I don't and consequently I'm opposed to legislation that makes integration mandatory.

Nothing stopping you using a house thermostat to switch the radiator circuits - just set their internal thermostats to a high temperature and the clocks to be on 24/7, and they will henceforth be remotely controlled!

But that's missing the point, as the selling point for electric radiators is you can heat each room independently at a time and temperature profile that best suits that room's function. That's why they used to come with nasty mechanical thermostats and clocks, which will apparently be digital under the new system. I see that some are also controllable by Alexa over the wifi.

However if heaters are available more cheaply without controls, then cheaper installers will fit them in houses without switched radial circuits. The customer then ends up leaving them on for hours uncontrolled.

Apparently the new system doesn't apply to post heaters, or storage heaters.