(edit title) Direct el heating cost What should I expect? Options

[gregovce]

I'm in the proces of moving form Skane to Smaland. In Skane I lived in rented apartment, nothing fancy but cheap like hell (less than 4.000 including heating, el, water). Here in Smaland I have an option to rent a house, nothing special either, but stil cosy. The only thing that really bothers me is heating, since it only had direct el radiators installed.
House has ground and first floor, something like 120m2, looks like 30-40 years old, wooden farmhouse. I know I can not get straight answers, but if someone has any experience regarding heating costs of something alike would help me a lot.
Btw, the owner agreed to instal new windows.

[Puffin]

Direct el can be really really expensive if there is a bad winter

Have you asked the Landlord/previous tennants for copies of actual electricity bills?

[johnjohn]

I live in Småland, used to own 120 kvm house very much like you described and kept it abut 15 degrees and payed 5000 per month to heat with el.

[skogsbo]

john, that's probably our worst month, yours sounds a little high. Ours is about 180m2, old(150yrs ish) uninsulated (this summers job) solid wood walls, old style secondary windows (the type you put in and remove yourself each winter), until november there was no insulation in the attic, it's a little better now after 27 rolls! We do however run a wood stove and leave the doors open to radiate the heat. 4000kr was probably our worse month, it's less now.

There are many variables, like choosing fixed or variable rate. We also pump and clean our own water and have a few machines that use 3phase power in the barn, but not a vast amount. We have slowly switched most of the bulbs to energy saving and most of the extra window and xmas lights are LED.

[Puffin]

It can work out much better if you have another heating source such as a wood burning stove

A lot also depends on room dimensions of how hard the place is to heat - if the owner is intending to install triple glazing that will make a difference - if it is only single pane (summer house standard) then I would be wary

As I said I would be pushing to know the actual bills as you don't want a huge shock - remembering the shock of a poster on here a few years back who had a fairly new, but poorly heated 100 sqm house and suddenly got a bill of 11,000 for 2 months

[BritVik]

My house is of 144m², heated by electricity - albeit not direct, but water-borne, and is from 1980, well insulated and triple-glazed, and caters for two. Our indoor temperature is usually around 19°C, and we help out with a wood-fired stove during extreme low outdoor temps, and as now, instead of raising the thermostats on the radiators. The diagram reflects the whole year and the annual average, plus the figure for the preceding year, and is for all our electricity usage . The costs here are all-in. That is to say for 'transport' and consumption fed into the data on a daily basis. As you know, there is the cost of getting the electricity to you, and then what you actually consume. In this diagram nothing is left out, and is the complete overall cost per month and year, if it is of help.

[Puffin]

The water based electric heating is cheaper

I assumed that OP was talking about those little electric heaters on the wall and not water based central heating

[BritVik]

Quite agree, but submitted the data for both reference and help. Every little helps as you know.