How to Heat Your Property

Finding a solution to heat your property without the use of gas can be challenging. Electric heating is the next most popular source after gas. Although gas boilers are now available, electric heating remains our primary option with over 12 different brands on offer.

Hot Water Only

The size of your property determines the options you have. Here are some ways to heat your property:

Instantaneous Heaters

Instantaneous heaters are compact, well-priced, and cheap to run. However, they do have a few disadvantages. This type of heater is perfect for a 1-bed apartment where all the outlets will be within 2m of the heater (without a bath). Instantaneous units also work well in isolated areas. For example, if you have a large property with a gas boiler on the ground floor and a bathroom on the 2nd floor, the water will reduce in temperature over that distance, so you could install an instantaneous unit to just supply that one bathroom.

Storage Type Heaters

Storage type heaters start as small as 5L and go as large as 300L as standard. With storage tanks operating at mains pressure, they are an ideal solution to serve multiple outlets at any one time. With storage tanks, there are two types: vented and unvented. Vented heaters are more commonly used for one basin with a vented tap or as an over sink heater with a spout on. Unvented heaters are used with normal mixer taps, so these can supply multiple outlets.

For larger units that supply a whole property from mains water, you would need an unvented direct cylinder.

Thermal Store Heaters

Thermal store heaters are common in flats and properties that do not have access to an outside wall. As unvented cylinders need to release outside, thermal store units become the only real option for a large property with no access to vent out of the property.

Heating Only

For heating only, we have a couple of options:

Flow Boilers

Flow boilers work as a sealed system that heats wet radiators like a gas boiler would. The flow boilers can also run underfloor heating.

Herschel Infrared Heaters

Another source of heating only that we offer is Herschel infrared heaters. These come in many different variants from wall panels to mirrors, outdoor space heaters and ceiling mounted domes that emit heat by using infrared waves.

Heating and Hot Water

For both heating and hot water, you can mix and match any of the last two categories to create a split system. If you go for a storage tank heater with a flow boiler, you can have them as two completely separate systems or you can link them together with an indirect cylinder.

Like gas combi boilers, electric boilers offer one complete system as an electric combi.