Low risk
Your electric heater has stopped producing heat or will not turn on at all.
Your storage heater is not producing any heat or is barely warm during the day.
Your storage heater is not taking on heat during the night despite correct settings.
Caution
Your electric boiler has stopped producing hot water or heating your home.
Your electric boiler keeps tripping the RCD or MCB every time it tries to heat up.
Your electric underfloor heating has stopped warming the floor or will not switch on.
Your underfloor heating thermostat has a blank screen, shows errors, or is not controlling the heating.
Your electric radiator is plugged in or hardwired but not producing any heat.
Your electric radiator stays on constantly and will not respond to the thermostat or controls.
Your smart thermostat has gone offline, has a blank screen, or is not responding to the app.
Your smart thermostat appears to work but the heating does not respond to it.
Your immersion heater has stopped producing hot water.
Your immersion heater keeps tripping the RCD or MCB every time it turns on.
A panel heater not working usually means no heat from a wall-mounted or freestanding unit even when the room feels cold and the rest of the flat still has power. In UK flats and rentals that often shows up as a dead fused spur, a blown plug fuse on a freestanding heater, a thermostat that never calls for heat, or a thermal cutout that has tripped because dust blocked the air intake. Picture a rented bedroom in late September: the wall panel stays cold overnight, the tenant checks the spur neon is off, and nobody wants to open a hardwired heater with the supply still live. Confirm power at the spur or socket, check the thermostat and timer, clear blocked vents, and stop if you smell burning or see scorch marks - that is when you book an electrician.
Describe the job and get a fixed price from a local electrician.
