Hallo zusammen, ich überlege, eine Wohnung mit Nachtspeicherheizung, Energieklasse B, zu mieten.
Wie teuer und komfortabel ist es für einen 2-Personen-Haushalt mit einem Neugeborenen im wirklichen Leben? Irgendwelche Vor- und Nachteile oder Dinge, auf die man achten sollte?
Dank im Voraus!
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Von Super-Tough0513
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Bad. Don’t do it.
Very Very expensive
Do you like to pay twice your income for electricity bills?
If yes, go for it.
it’s definitely more comfortable and far more expensive than being homeless with a child.
If you have an actual choice, pick the other option. Unless the actual rent of appartment is much mich lower than the other place to off set the extra electricity cost.
Hell no. It’s an outdated, expensive system.
absoluetly bad idea. this shit is expensive as fuck
If you have option B go with it otherwise get ready to pay x2 for electricity
They are expensive to run. Check the water heater situation. If that’s electric and an older boiler that will also be expensive to run. If it’s not been properly maintained it will cost you a bomb.
We never used our storage heaters, just bought a couple of plug in radiators from Bauhaus and used those. We were warm enough but we did end up with mould in the main bedroom which was probably from not keeping it warm enough. But the bedroom did also have 3 external walls due to the shape of the balconies. If we’d realised this in advance we possibly could have kept the heater on in that room only.
The main issue with having storage heaters is you get stuck on the tariff that allows dual pricing and can’t switch to better offers.
If the rent is cheap and the water boiler situation isn’t horrible, it might be worth it. If the rent is market rate then you’ll be paying more than you would somewhere with different heating.
I do have this kind of heating for my 1 person household, i have a 150€ /month electricity bill. Also the entire kitchen and warm water is electricity based.
Also i only heat the living room and i additionally insulated all the doors and windows, always keep all doors closed.
My living room is always well above 20°C, everything else more like 15.
If that’s the only available heating source, don’t do it.
I have an Appartement with Nachtspeicheröfen. I never use them, because a have wood ovens as well, which heat up my place enough.
I used the Nachtspeicheröfen for one night, because I had to. Now check this out:
Two Nachtspeicheröfen, heat level 2 (3 is highest), for one night:
11€ for a single night.
Wasn’t enough heat for the whole next day, by the way.
I’m paying 200€ each month for heating electricity and I’m quite sure that wouldn’t be enough.
If you’re heating an entire apartment on a level, that a newborn feels cozy, I would say that’s easily 30-40€ PER NIGHT. Because I bet that apartment isn’t well isolated. Probably an old house, otherwise it would have central heating (Oil, gas, Wärmepumpe…) and not this ugly heating nightmare.
Don’t do it. Sorry.
I have an apartment with these. They suck up a lot of engery. However, it‘s not gas and that keeps it relatively okay. During the transitional times I also use infrared heating. It’s doable and you’re independent from gas prices.
Oh, it is very, very expensive. We used to live in an apartment with this kind of heating—a 95 sqm flat with two bedrooms. We were only heating the living room and our daughter’s bedroom, and we still paid a lot of money every month, plus even more at the end of the year.
Don’t do it. We have also…
Ca.: 1000- 2000 kwh / month
Nachtspeicher is quite expensive, my apartment has similar ones.
If the rent is cheap and you can not get a better flat, it is okay-ish.
I mean what you would pay for heating you will pay for electricity. We have 260 eur per month for a 2 people household and 78 m2 with 3 of these. I have 3 servers plus several pcs running though at all times so go figure. If possible I would of course choose not to gave them as they take wall space in a large way.
I rented a house with this type of heating. It was super expensive (heating costs would be at least double in comparison to a gas heated place) and a pain in the butt to manage, but the landlord offered us cheap rent in exchange. I don’t regret living there, but I also had no other offers.
For a Nachtspeicherheizung you have to make an electricity contract with a specific night tariff. During the night (and only during the night) you buy electricity for a heavily reduced price, which charges the stones inside heater. The heater then gives off heat over the course of the day.
I have lived with a Nachtspeicherheizung. It takes a full night to heat up – so if you want to have it warm, you have to set it on the day before. You can’t turn it on on demand. You also can’t turn it off on demand. Once the heater is charged it will always give off heat. It is a very reliable source of heat. There is close to 0% of it ever needing a repair and electricity is almost always available in Germany (very few outages).
Compared to legacy burner units like gas or oil, these are massive advantages for the landlord – no maintenance costs ever!! The drawback is the operating costs. As a tenant you do not benefit from the advantages but carry the full drawback of the operating costs. This can get expensive.
There are online tariff calculators, you can compare the prices. However it is important to note, that fossil fuels will only ever get more expensive – eventually they will become much more expensive than electricity is right now. This means that in the long run it is definitely cheaper to heat with electricity – no matter how. However a heat pump is also run by electricity and is 3-5 times more efficient than a Nachtspeicherheizung. So while a Nachtspeicherheizung might be a better option against gas or oil, it definitely loses against a heat pump, which is simply king on the market.
Mother in law used to warm her 80-90m² apartment with these (old ones from 70s to 90s). I think it was about 3800€ total electricity bill for 2024. Exluding warm water.
I‘ve lived with this heating system for 20 years (1,5 bed rooms, 1 person household). It used to be affordable but in recent years electricity costs have gone up. I‘m paying almost triple the amount of what it was 5 years ago.
2 things to consider as well: having Nachtspeicherheizung you need to think ahead. You can‘t just turn up the heat any time in the day and expect your apartment to feel warm within half an hour.
I always make sure to check the weather report in the winter and remember to turn the heaters on in the evening. I only have the heaters run continously if the temperatures hit below 0 degree Celsius for a longer period of time.
Only rent this apartment if the building is insulated well. Otherwise your apartment will never feel warm and it will cost you a lot of money. When I first moved in the building was quite drafty. My heating bill was high, a couple of years in one side of the building was fixed and properly insulated and new windows got installed. It made such a difference in costs up until the Ukraine war started and electricity costs skyrocketed.
that’s the most expensive kind of heating you can get. it’s extremely outdated and will cost a fortune. don’t move there!
Its not as expensive as people make it sound. You can also get cheaper electricity tariffs for night storage heaters if you choose the right plan. It’s worth comparing providers on Verivox.
You’re probably looking at around 150 – 200 eur per month for electricity.
For comparison, I personally pay about 170 eur per month for natural gas.