Domestic

Electric heating
German manufactured electric radiators are clean, attractive, easy to install, with virtually no maintenance, and are cost effective to own and run. They also come with a 25 year warranty.

Spot heaters
Spot Heaters are called this because they are designed to heat a ‘cold spot’ in a room not the whole space. Spot heaters can include: fan heaters, two bar electric fires, oil and gel filled radiators, wall panel heaters and cheap convectors. You can tell that a heater is a spot heater because it gives out heat very quickly but when it’s turned off it gets cold very quickly too (and so is the air around it). This requires the spot heater to constantly draw power from the mains to maintain heat, making them cheap to buy but very expensive to run. A note of caution, do not use a spot heater to heat the whole space in a room – your bills will be enormous.

Night storage heaters
Night storage heaters are virtually impossible to control. They give out the maximum heat first thing in the morning when people tend to be most active and by the end of the day, when you wish to relax, there’s little heat left inside them. They run on a tariff called Economy 7 or Super Tariff which means cheaper electricity at night but very expensive during the day (typically over 25% more than ’standard tariffs’). This makes all your daytime electricity very expensive. It’s also virtually impossible to switch suppliers, thus you’re unable to take advantage of the market and better deals elsewhere.

Storage heaters
Storage heaters have very large kW as they need to try to store heat over the charging period and are switched on for seven hours, whether it’s needed or not. They don’t have room thermostats, so they can’t react to the outside temperature, and they don’t convect so often people complain of cold feet and hot ceilings. Many people install shelves over the top of their storage heaters in a vain attempt to stop them getting dirt from the top of the storage heater. This indicates how storage heaters are dirty and give a warm air heat that people find oppressive as it dries the air.

Wet systems
Gas and oil heating systems have their own disadvantages. Firstly, you need to be connected to the gas grid and that is not always possible in rural areas. Although oil fired heating can work in these locations, it still requires having oil tanks, pumps and piping just to get to your property. Both systems need piping to run round the home and connecting this to a central boiler. Piping looks awful and particularly ugly when running over solid floors across skirtings and down walls. There’s also a risk of possible leaks, noisy pipes and repairs, including general maintenance to boilers.

Choosing to have a boiler installed and fitted by North East Heating Solutions means you’ll get hot water in sufficient quantities, on demand and for a fraction of the cost. Our solutions for hot water are a pressurised system, so a header tank is not required. We can fit the boiler in just a day and use the existing pipework so there will be no upheaval or re-decorating in your home. It’s quick, simple, efficient and comes with a 10 year guarantee.