oil filled heater

I really, really doubt that. The pilot light would have outputted a few Watts max - this is not enough to keep a tiny cupboard warm, never mind a whole room.

More likely you were experiencing the overall heat leaked from the boiler when it's firing, which could amount to a couple of hundred Watts.

Yes, they work pretty well, and would do what you want. Alternatively, consider an electric towel rail. This would give you up to say 400W output, and some rails to hand stuff on.

Could you not plumb in a small radiator? An electric heater is going to cost a fair bit to run. You might even find that the incremental cost wipes out a significant part of the condensing boiler saving......

.andy

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Yes, your probably correct. I suspect that the firing periods and retained heat did the drying, but some of the heat was obviosly retained during the off periods and kept the room frost free. At the moment, I store my beer in there because its colder than the fridge.

Grunff wrote in news:bv6mrb$o64j0$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-152899.news.uni-berlin.de:

I know it sounds strange, Grunff, but my hot water is kept lukewarm, OK for hand and face washing, all through the summer, the heating is off and only the pilot light is running.

There's no other source of heat; lots of people, (well, one) have said the same as you, but it is really true

mike r

That's different. 10W in a well insulated boiler will cause the heat exchanger to reach maybe 35-40C over a few hours. When you pull water through it, you use up some of the energy stored in the heat exchanger to heat the water.

Do this simple experiment - run the hot water with your boiler turned off (but the pilot on). You'll get a few minutes worth of warm water (measure the temperature - that would be interesting to know), then it will go cold.

Is there any way you can run just a piece of pipe, say 22mm, along the length of the room, maybe at floor level ? This could be connected at each end to some 10mm to 22mm reducers and would let the small room have a little bit of heat from the rest of the system. Just like a small unobtrusive radiator really.

Adding a "radiator" from the house heating system seems like the best approach to me. As someone else said running an electric heater for the times mentioned is quite liekly to eat any of the savings the new boiler generates.

This length of pipe would need at least one valve somewhere so that the flow through can be controlled otherwise it might seriously unbalance the system.

Grunff wrote in news:bv6ppt$p3tbe$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-152899.news.uni-berlin.de:

I didn't realise it was all that different, perhaps it is, I've only got my own experience to go on, and my hovel hasn't got a utility room! Most people do tell me it's cobblers, so I'm a bit surprised at you (old septic) accepting it

I do it all through the summer; I've never tried measurements but it's nice and comfy for ablutions; you'll have to wait for the heating to be no longer required to get a proper scientific answer! But I imagine I get a pretty large bulk of lukewarm water for the weekly facewash

mike r