Electrical — Heating
Convector heaters from the nineteen-eighties warm the ceiling and scorch the dust. In most cases they can be replaced without major work — the supply is already there; it only needs checking.
Time
Half a day for an apartment
Benefit
Control to a tenth of a degree
Area
Paris 6th, 7th, 14th, 15th, 16th
Four cases, and what lies behind the old heater.
Same position, same supply: removal and fitting take an hour per heater. The comfort genuinely changes — the warmth is gentle rather than dry.
Many old convectors are wired straight into the wall, sometimes with no box at all. It is the moment to fit a compliant, accessible one, ready for the next replacement.
A burnt-out element or a failed control board: on recent models the part often costs half the price of a new rail. I give you both prices and you choose.
If the old heaters had none, it must be run from the consumer unit. It is what makes programming possible and genuinely lowers the bill — more than the radiator itself.
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Behind an old convector one often finds a 1.5 mm² supply for a heater that needed 2.5, or a loose terminal-block connection. The replacement is the only moment this fault is visible — and the only moment correcting it costs almost nothing.
Five arrondissements — the Left Bank, and the 16th just across the river — covered neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Each arrondissement has its own page, as does each neighbourhood.
Paris 6th Luxembourg · Rue de Rennes · Saint Sulpice · Mabillon · Raspail · Notre Dame des Champs · Odéon · Montparnasse · Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Paris 7th Champ-de-Mars · La Tour-Maubourg · Saint-François-Xavier · Rue du Bac · Saint-Germain · Solférino · Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin · Invalides · Ecole Militaire · Gros Caillou
Paris 14th Brune · Didot · Montsouris · Denfert Rochereau · Mouton Duvernet · Plaisance · Pernety · Montparnasse · Alésia
Paris 15th Necker · Saint Lambert · Vaugirard · Croix Nivert · Lecourbe · Convention · Commerce · Javel · Beaugrenelle · Grenelle
Paris 16th Trocadéro · Passy · Auteuil · La Muette · Victor Hugo · Porte Dauphine · Chaillot · Ranelagh · Exelmans · Porte de Saint-Cloud
Beyond these five arrondissements: elsewhere in Paris and the Île-de-France, depending on the project.
Tell me about the situation, with a photo if you have one. I reply the same day.