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Hi @pirate. I like the term effective heating as opposed to efficient heating.
I do get what your saying regards cost of installing gas.
Cost off installing gas combi with say 8 rads. £6000.
Or a few electric rads £1000.
If your yearly energy bill is £1200 as electric and by converting to gas it could drop to £900. It would take 20 years to get your money back and then you would probably have to have a new boiler fitted due to age.
Under those conditions electric is more financially viable.
I agree that off peak storage heaters are not efficient, because you have them on when you don’t need to heat the house and controlling the output during the day is nigh on impossible. By 5-6pm when you get in from work there is no heat left so you have to turn on the day tariff electric heaters.
Rethink those figures. Gas is 1/3 of the price of electricity. (Look at your KwH cost on your bills).