Indoor Heating

[sad old git]

Hi. Has anyone heard of or had contact with Sunflow Electric Radiators?.Thinking of updating or replacing my existing storage heaters but am at a loss to find a decent alternative and saw this ad in a national mag which is why I would appreciate any feedback be it good or bad.Thank you All

[Buenchico]

Someone else searching for the same information seems to have sparked some big arguments here!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3595485
However I'd prefer to stay away from any company which, as that thread suggests, doesn't want to tell people their prices straight away.

[Buenchico]

SOG is a long-serving (UK) member of AB, Methyl, but here's your link anyway:
http://www.sunflowltd.co.uk/

[buildersmate]

I went through the thread from Chris` link and one person mentions that he was quoted £1400 for a single radiator. That post was dated Feb 2012.
I suspect what this company has done is think carefully about design, to make these blocks of firebricks look more sexy, plus engineering work to make the heating control more intelligent, plus using foreplay that packs more heat in per cubic metre of fireclay.

None of this impresses me if if drives the price up to that extent. Electric storage rads are the simplest of products, convert 100% of the electricity they consume into heat, and the big issue then is keeping that stored night heat inside the device long enough to allow it out at a controlled rate to warm the room. The company doesn't say much about the insulating layers around the fireclay.
Like Chris, I'm sceptical about companies that sell only via their own salesmen in your home. They are likely to sell the features hard, make claims about benefits it is hard to verify, and use these two to justify a higher price.

[buildersmate]

I went through the thread from Chris` link and one person mentions that he was quoted £1400 for a single radiator. That post was dated Feb 2012.
I suspect what this company has done is think carefully about design, to make these blocks of firebricks look more sexy, plus engineering work to make the heating control more intelligent, plus using foreplay that packs more heat in per cubic metre of fireclay.

None of this impresses me if if drives the price up to that extent. Electric storage rads are the simplest of products, convert 100% of the electricity they consume into heat, and the big issue then is keeping that stored night heat inside the device long enough to allow it out at a controlled rate to warm the room. The company doesn't say much about the insulating layers around the fireclay.
Like Chris, I'm sceptical about companies that sell only via their own salesmen in your home. They are likely to sell the features hard, make claims about benefits it is hard to verify, and use these two to justify a higher price.

[sad old git]

Thank you all very much for your helpfull replies.I guess I'll just stick to what I've got for the time being.