Advantages
- Storage heaters, while often still more expensive than equivalent gas- or oil-fired heating systems, are cheaper than running the same amount of electrical heating using electricity at regular rates
- Users of gas central heating & some other systems often turn off the heating during the night as an economy measure, with the result that the house is cold at night and early morning; but because night storage heaters are on at night, the house is still warm at those times
- Using storage heaters allows houses to be sited in areas where natural-gas distribution systems are not available, without forcing the homeowners to pay high electrical-heating bills
- The capital cost of night storage heating is relatively low, and installation is far easier than the initial installation of gas-fired boilers, piping and radiators. This is an important advantage when renovating old buildings without existing central heating.
- As compared to gas central heating systems, night storage heaters require next to no maintenance, with a consequent reduction in running costs.
Read more about this topic: Storage Heater, Comparison To Other Heating Systems
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