- They don't offer any on-demand heating for guests (although none have really complained about that)
- Because we have storage heaters, our insurer mandates that we turn-off the water stop-cock during the winter when unoccupied.... because there is no 'frost-protection' setting or equivalent. This means we have to pay our managing agent to do this before and after lets during the winter months, which costs us £25 a time.
- We also have to pay our managing agent to read the meter from time to time. I would like to get a Smart Meter installed but these are not compatible with storage heaters and economy 7 . Therefore, I will need to continue to pay for meter readings at £25 a time.
- I cannot control the heating remotely so rely on guests or the managing agent to switch off the storage heaters when the property is unoccupied .... which either leads to it not being done or me having to pay for it to be done. We have a Hive installed to control heating in our other property
The property also has a stove in the living/dining/kitchen area and small wall-mounted convector heaters in each of the two bedrooms. We have a heated towel rail in the bathroom too. There is no gas in the area and we don't have room for an oil tank for an oil-fired heating system. The insulation is pretty good.
I asked here about under-floor heating 2.5 years ago. However, time and technology move on. Are there any better heating solutions available?
Our night usage is approx 5,000 KwH per annum. Day usage about 2,000 KwH. Costs about £1,000 per annum.
Thanks