DENISE WALTERS

Has anyone used these, would appreciate your views

megmet

If you mean the flat panel wall heaters then yes!
I have one here in my office and it's very effective, the panel gets very hot and it stays that way long after you turn it off, just make sure you buy the correct size for the room.

When we bought ours a couple of weeks ago they were selling like hot cakes, I wish we had bought one last winter when we first looked at them!

Highly Recommended

cymruambyth

One is OK in a small(ish) room, a larger room (of lounge size) would require more than one. Heats the wall up behind it, so don't put on an outside wall (or you'll be heating the outside world!). Takes the chill off, rather than heats, supposedly cheap to run. (IMHO)

lovingthesun

Would they be suitable in a bathroom? We have a problem with condenation in there and are wondering what would be the best form of heating that's economical.

Plus - any opinion on heated towel rails?

Lynn R

I have a heat/light fitting in my bathroom - not the prettiest of things, but it's effective, heats the room up quickly and most of all very easy to fit without having to damage tiling to fit a panel heater or heated towel rail if you don't already have a suitable socket. We bought in the UK (have never seen them on sale here) and two Spanish neighbours were so impressed with it that they asked if we could get them one too (a friend brought them over as hand luggage and my OH fitted them, muchos brownie points for us!).

I bought two spare heating elements for ours before we left the UK but the original one is still going strong after eight years (but is only used for short periods on winter days).

cymruambyth

Something like this:



See; http://www.scottsofstow.co.uk/Heat-L...-1_58763_10551

or; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swan-Electri.../dp/B002MF4LGK

DENISE WALTERS

Do you need an electrician to install these aki fires or do you just plug in?????
How much are they new 30x30 approx.

Lynn R

Yes, ugly as sin but they do work well.

cymruambyth

The one's I've experienced were the Econo ones (most likely very similar). they simply plug into a socket;



Details here: http://econoheat.es/low-consumption-wall-panel-heaters

megmet

Yes that's the sort we have. my husband fixed it to the wall in ten minutes and it then just plugs into the socket.

We bought the smaller twenty three inch one as my office is only small, we paid 49€ for it, as far as I recall the larger model was 99€.

Yes they would be suitable for a bathroom as all the electrical elements are encased inside the metal panel.
We actually have a heated towel rail in our bathroom, but it takes forever to heat up and is not that effective in warming even our small bathroom, when we revamp it next year we will change to the panel heater.

Hope that helps.

Fred James

Just remember that any claims they make to being "efficient" or "economical" are basically rubbish.

They are no more efficient than any other heater and the only reason they are economical is because the heat output is low and hence it costs less to run.

That said, they are a perfectly reasonable way of warming up a small space.

Dxf

Hi

Cheap to run they ain´t !!! mine is 1/2 Kw so if run 24X7 that´s 12Kw or say 1-50 per day, 45 euros a month very rough figures.

Got a friend who was "taken in" by the blurb and installed FIVE. Total electric bill for the month was over 300 euros much to their horror; they don´t run them any more.

Davexf

jimenato

Yes - glad someone has said that. You will find that they won't advertise "more efficient" or "more economical" than other heaters in British ads because they ain't and the ASA demands evidence for such claims in ads and there isn't any.

A 500 watt electric heater is a 500 watt electric heater.

anonimouse

Unless you have upgraded electrics the problem may ocur when you try to put the kettle on at the same time as them

Fred James

They have such a small output that it probably wouldn't make much difference. The small one is only 250w.

The most effective electric heaters are fan assisted convector heaters with a thermostat and variable power ratings. They cost just as much per kilowatt to run but they get the heat round the room quickly rather than heating up the wall. Not a good idea in a bathroom but pretty good anywhere else and of course they are portable.

AKI do one for far less than a wall panel.

http://catalogo.aki.es/calefaccion/c...ermico/idp8818