WIBO electric heaters

Does anyone on this forum have any experience of WIBO electric heaters? I am thinking of installing them in my one bed Victotain conversion and would like to know any opinions about their preformance etc. They are very expensive!

thanks

Bryan

I am thinking about substituting WIBO for my rusty old electric storage heaters in my small period cottage. Has anyone done this. My cottage will not accommodate conventional boiler and radiators. If you have, how efficient have they been?

Haven't actually had them installed yet - although we have ordered 2 for our flat. They are very expensive though but from what I have read from customer comments that the salesman showed us they are very good, but not necessarily as efficient as they might make you think.

I think the main advantage for us is the ability to just plug them in to a normal socket - but be careful if you are installing quite a few as you may overload your 30 amp rating for your socket circuit. Also the digital thermostat and control system seems to be far far far better than storage heaters are, with accurate control of temperature throughout the whole of the day.

I did notice that a similar system has been developed by Dimplex recently - called duo heat, it is a combination of a storage heater and convection heater. They are cheaper than WIBO heaters, but still require separate wiring and economy seven meter for the storage part of the heater, which WIBO does not need.

Hope this helps!

Bry

I'm about to spend over 8 grand on them...so I hope they are good! Well, it means that I don't have to put a separate oil boiler into the cottage of the main house plus pipe work and rads etc...

Before I commit (this Saturday) I would really appreciate it if someone does have constructive comments about them..

Thanks!

Do a search on posts by Aidan, he has provided excellent information on the relative efficiency of electric heating generally.

Geoffrey

Thanks Geoffrey - searched and found sound advice... Lynne

Hi Lynne

To save me time searching, what did you find out from these posts about electric heating?

Thanks

Bryan

Why not get the WIBO rep to give you names and addresses of existing WIBO customers who have direct experience for you to contact?

If you have any problems, then contact me and I can give you some.

I am SW Regional Manager for WIBO and know WIBO from my 30 years spent in Germany before I joined them. The heaters do all that they say they will, especially if you use the thermostat correctly.

Oh hello! - I thought I had the only period cottage with wibo heating! I am new to the system installed by a Dutch lady who revamped my cottage before selling. No space for boilers - miss my gas heating from my old flat. Any tips / advice / help if it all goes wrong greatfully received!

We blought a Wibo 2kw "power-pack" some 4 years ago, principally to heat a 17th century shop.

The sales talk was very convincing, and the technician adamant that the Wibo heater would be more than adequate for this premise.....just what we wanted to hear, of course.

4 years later, we are very disillusioned. This heater is far from adequate, and having recently taken it to bits...one of the heating elements failed....it is very difficult to see why Wibo charges such an enormous amount for what is simply another convection heater,albeit with a thermostat. The miracle components, the fire-clay core, which we expected to see inside the unit are not there, just two heating elements.

Worth the money? Think how many other convector heaters you can buy for the same price.

Can you give me the contact details of WIBO

We have recently purchased a small house equipped with a WIBO electric heater.

We are having difficulty in getting it to work and as this is now winter and we live in NE Scotland could anyone help with a contact for a local WIBO technician please?

The uk WIBO website is here (it's cr*p by the way):

http://www.wibo-werk.com/eng/sites/index_ger.htm

The uk office number is:

0208 795 4733

Bry

Bry,

many thanks, we shall speak to them and see if we gain any support.

Best regards

Dave

Hello Michael.
Just been searching for info on wibo heaters & found your message. I live near portsmouth & am looking for wibo spares. Can you help me please.
Many Thanks, Paul Harris.

the wibo customer service ADDRESS:

WIBO U.K. YORK HOUSE,EMPIRE WAY,WEMBLEY ,MIDDX HA9 0PA
TEL;02087954733/ FAX:02087954648

Hi
I saw your message ew. Wibo heaters, and I wondered if you had found anything out about them as I am also interested in installing them.

I have a brochure for them, but when I requested a price list it was not forthcoming and they said that I have to have a consultant out. Not too keen on that idea and so trying to find out prices etc. by other means.

Many thanks

Angie

Hello Angie

I have indeed had 2 WIBO heaters installed in my flat. The cost was £2000 in total which I will say is rather expensive really, but the installation is a hell of a lot cheaper (it's free) than having gas central heating and radiators etc installed, or having a new fusebox installed and the wiring replaced in our flat for storage heaters.

The heaters are pretty good - the wireless thermostats being the best bit, but they are not necessarily as efficient as the salesman might make out. In the winter we were playing about £120 a quarter to run the pair (granted it was rather cold) which is probably twice as expensive as gas I reckon, and also more than an equivalent storage heater (but they are better than storage heaters due to more control over the heat output). But then you have to take into account servicing etc which is not really needed with WIBO.

Conclusion is that they are a good quick option if you don't want your house rewiring for storage heaters (wibo just plug into a normal socket) or plumbed for gas. They are fairly expensive to run, but cheap to maintain.

If you do not require a new fusebox or rewiring in your house then it might be worth looking at Dimplex Duoheat storage heaters that run on economy seven at night (unlike wibo). These are around £500 each and it sounds like they are similar to WIBO but also store heat at night:

http://www.dimplex.co.uk/consumer/duoheat.htm

Bryan



Dimplex Duoheat

2.5 00 watt per hour 1418 uk pounds
1.6 k w h 1277
1 k w h 998
this is is after discount
looks like a good piece of kit but pricy
running costs look a bit high

4 X WIBO ELECTRIC HEATERS FOR SALE WITH THERMOSTAT CONTROLLERS FOR EACH
EXCELLENT CONDITION
WHOLE HOUSE REVAMP FORCES SALE
£1500 FOR ALL FOUR
WILL SELL SEPERATELY