Nothing on the walls. Heat only the rooms you use. Slim white PowerBoard panels on the ceiling warm people and everything in the room directly, instead of heating the air first. Supplied and installed across the UK.
Most people never sit down and work this out, so here it is plainly. A 3.4kW storage heater taking a full seven hour Economy 7 charge uses about 23.8 units of electricity a night. Across a five month heating season that is roughly 3,600 units for one heater.
Economy 7 night rates currently run from about 12.5p per unit on the cheapest deal available up to around 16p on a default tariff. That puts a single storage heater at roughly £450 to £580 for the season. A three bedroom house rarely has just the one.
In fairness, that is the top of the range. Modern heaters with automatic charge control stop once the core is full, so they will not always pull the whole seven hours. But it is the figure worth knowing, because it is what you pay through the cold weeks when they do.
Economy 7 is not a discount. It is a trade. You get cheaper electricity for seven hours overnight, and in return you pay a higher rate for the other seventeen.
Economy 7 daytime rates currently sit at roughly 28p to 34p a unit. The standard single rate price cap was 26.32p in October 2026. So an Economy 7 household pays more than everyone else for the kettle, the lights, the washing machine and the television. The usual rule of thumb is that Economy 7 only pays if you can shift about 40% of everything you use into the night window.
Then there is the timing. Storage heaters charge overnight and start giving heat back the moment they are full, so a good part of it goes into an empty house before anyone is home. Which is why so many storage heater households reach for the boost switch at teatime, and the boost runs at that higher daytime rate. You end up paying the peak price for warmth you should have had already.
Economy 7 rates checked August 2026; price cap updated for October 2026. Economy 7 rates vary by region, supplier and payment method, so check your own bill for your exact figures.
Storage heaters are large boxes that dictate where your furniture goes. PowerBoard panels sit on the ceiling, so they use no wall space and no floor space. These are photographs from a real installation, not visualisations.
The same bedroom, before and after. Mounting frames and cabling go up first, then the panels fit onto them. No pipework, no wet trades, and no replastering.
Photographs from a whole-home installation in Newport Pagnell. Read the full case study.
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Yes. Infrared panels can provide complete whole-house heating as the sole heat source. Unlike storage heaters which require 'charging' overnight, infrared works on demand, providing heat whenever you need it without the bulk of traditional heaters.
While storage heaters use cheap overnight electricity, they often run out of heat by the afternoon, requiring expensive 'boost' heating. Infrared is more efficient at warming people directly and, when paired with a smart tariff or solar panels, typically results in lower overall energy bills and significantly better comfort.
In most cases, the existing wiring for storage heaters can be repurposed for infrared panels, though an electrician will need to modify the consumer unit (fuse box) to move the circuits from an 'off-peak only' supply to a 24-hour supply.
You can, but it is rarely the most efficient way. Infrared works best on demand. We recommend switching to a 'Smart' off-peak tariff (like Octopus Agile or Go) which allows you to run infrared panels at low-cost times or use them whenever needed for a flat, fair rate.
It depends on the room, not the heater. A storage heater's kW rating is how fast it charges overnight, not how much heat it gives out: a 3.4kW heater takes in about 23.8 units over the seven hour Economy 7 window, then lets that heat out slowly through the day. Infrared panels only run when you want heat, so we size them from the room's heat loss instead. As a guide, a 20m² living room needs about 1.2kW in a modern, cavity-insulated home and up to about 2.6kW in an older home with solid walls, which is two to four of our 750W panels. A free remote heat loss check gives you the exact number for your room.