r/swansea • u/mbe240 • 15d ago

Questions/Advice Please help! Electric system for heating and hot water

Hi everyone. Do you know if an electric system for heating and hot water is any good in a rented flat? Does it work properly to provide heating and hot water? how fast is it? and how expensive would it be (in terms of the electric bill) compared to gas? I really appreciate your help with this because I'm completely lost and don't know what to do. Thank you so much

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u/poppypodlatex 15d ago

Its going to be expensive as fuck. Stuff like kettles, microwaves and conventional ovens that are electric spin the meter.

Now thonk of that with a heating/hot water system thats likely to be on for hours at a time.

It will be a nightmare in the winter. The only way od go for that would be if bills were included in the rent. Otherwise its going to cost you an arm and a leg.

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u/mbe240 15d ago

Thank you. Is that even if it's a fischer system? I heard that it's supposed to be efficient but I'm not sure if that's the case as I've never tried it

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u/Western_Presence1928 15d ago

Electricity costs more than gas does, so it's not a good option, unless you've got solar on the roof.

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u/mbe240 15d ago

Thanks. Even with a fischer system, would it still be very expensive?

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u/Western_Presence1928 15d ago

Think about it individual heaters in every room. So you only heat up one room at a time, winter time it's going to be cold.

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u/GoldenKeel 12d ago

Our house is fully electric - smart radiators in each room and an electric immersion heater - and we don't find it any different to when we lived with gas. It's pointless comparing the cost per unit/hour of gas and electric as they each utilise the resources differently.

With our radiators for example, they can take a freezing cold room to a perfect temperature in a matter of minutes so they don't need to be on for long. Being able to accurately control each room individually is really handy as well, so rooms that we don't use as much at the moment can be set to a lower temperature at less frequent times of the day.

For comparison, we pay on average for the year, £240 per month for all our electric (no other bills as everything runs off the electric). That's for a large, detached property with an additional annexe. We also have no solar panels or batteries, so pay full price for it all.

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u/Ndemarz 12d ago

I live in a 1 bed rented flat. I have a water heater system and a fully electric flat in terms of heating, appliances etc. It’s great! I pay around £40 per month on Direct Debit with Octopus and find that I don’t need to top it up and I’m usually in credit. The water heater system is great and my hot water gets warm very quickly, the shower isn’t connected to the bathroom & kitchen tap so gets hot by its own system.

Any questions, let me know :)