So the radiator in the bathroom wasn’t really cutting it compared to the heating in the rest of the house. We could make good use of a remote-controlled, wall-mounted forced air heater above the bathroom door to take the shock out of the room following showers, etc. I’d seen quite a few suitable candidates last year, but we weren’t ready to think about fitting anything else at the time.
Enter Lot 20. This directive is designed to remove inefficient technologies and reduce the energy used by products that heat our homes, and has meant that a lot of old-school (very basic and inefficient) fan heaters can’t be manufactured for sale in the UK or the rest of the EU after 1st January 2018. I wholeheartedly embrace the concept of this, if not the current situation it leaves me in. I can’t get anything to fit my exact requirements now, until companies adapt their designs to comply. They’ve had quite a while to do so, but apparently not long enough yet. If I can find one that was made before 1st January, I can still legally buy it and fit it – I’m guessing that these things are like gold dust now.
So the hunt for a heater continues, and at least when I do find one, it’ll almost certainly be wifi-enabled (whether I like it or not). When the robots finally take over everything, at least I’ll have had a few years of being able to heat the bathroom for a few minutes before I got out of bed. A price worth paying, I’m sure.
Update: heater found and retrieved (pictured)