The little ones on wheels you can get from argos etc
Are they any good ?
With the energy bills as they are was thinking of grabbing a couple instead of firing up the central heating
Cheaper to run ?
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The little ones on wheels you can get from argos etc
Are they any good ?
With the energy bills as they are was thinking of grabbing a couple instead of firing up the central heating
Cheaper to run ?
I’ve got one which I use in the room which doesn’t have a radiator. It’s a small room, so it’s good for that, but I wouldn’t use it instead of a radiator in one of the bigger rooms in the house. When I first moved in up here, there was no working boiler so I used the oil radiator a lot for a few weeks - it was in the spring, so it wasn’t too bad, but looking at my electric bill for that time, it was quite expensive,
I’ve got one of these , which appear fairly economical , that said I find more useful in the summer as it offers cool airflow and I know you have complained of heat in the past.
https://www.dyson.co.uk/fans-and-hea...l/white-nickel
According to Ben Gallizzi, energy expert at Uswitch, it'll cost you 19.8p to keep it running for 12 hours straight. If you had it on for 24 hours a day during a week-long heatwave it would set you back £2.77.
I am going to argos in Bridgend
And I am going now
Onwards
I’ve got one for my little office in the house and it does just enough to keep me warm. As I’ve got a 3 story house if I put the heating on it warms two floors when all I need is a bit of warmth in the smallest office room. It’s decent enough.
electricity is about 3.5 times as expensive as gas for the same amount of energy, but then you have to also factor in how large the area you are heating I.e. 1 room Vs 1 house and also the efficiency of the heaters.
for 1 room only electric is probably fine
When Council / housing associations / MOD ( ive worked for all 3 ) houses lost heating, we always used to supply these
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ch-2000m-...st-2000w/716fy
ive got 2 in the shed for emergencies, they work well and while 2000 W will not be as cheap as 1000 W, they do work well
I fitted one of these
https://www.screwfix.com/p/blyss-sar...te-1500w/195jk
in the mancave / games room, I went with 1500 W as its slightly cheaper to run, I can run all the power ( with this heater included ) from a 13A fixed spur unit ( or a plug if needed ) as its all under 3 KW of power
it heats a 5 M X 3M well insulated space really , last week it was Minus 4 C outside and I was sat in there with a hoodie and some joggers on, when I started boxing ( in VR ) I had to take the Hoodie off, so the heater was well upto the job and cost 40p per hour to run
this site has a calculator with all the tariffs
https://www.sust-it.net/heating-energy-calculator.php
select the size of your heater and away you go
I had a small 800 W oil filled rad ( smallest I could find ), used to use it in the caravan or the VW splity all the time, they used to say it used to cost 2p a hour to run, which I was more than happy with
I used in the conservatory in the milder evenings, it was no good in the depths of winter and it was freezing out there
the only downside is that it just heats the air around it, so if you are 10ft away, you might to feel the warmth for a few hours ( depending on the output of the heater ) , leave it on all the time and it'll keep a room warm though, its just slow as it has no fan
they do, I always like to stay under 2KW, as we know the UK plug can handle that in one it without getting too hot
the 500 W Skirting rad's are fairly low cost to buy and run
maybe try one of them, if its not warm enough, you could get a 2nd to put in the room, even out the heat on 2 sides ( depends on the size of your room, you could just leave it on 24/7 )
https://www.screwfix.com/p/glen-2150...-x-211mm/992hv
500 W costs 14p a hour to run
the 1500 or 1800 W heater would be my choice though
https://www.toolstation.com/airmaste...-heater/p75252
https://www.toolstation.com/airmaste...-heater/p37573
Airmaster are a good brand
its free standing, under 2KW, plug in and feel the warmth
Been through all this.
Oil-filled rads are more expensive to run in one small room than a halogen heater (around £24 to buy, and about 13p an hour to run on lowest setting ).
Having researched the Dyson AM, and prepared to shell out £400, I am not convinced they are economical. The promoted running cost seems to be based on the cooling phase not heating. If this was exceptionally cheap to heat a room, it would be trumpeted all over the internet. It isn't. There's a reason for that. Also, there is still an issue with noise at the higher settings.
Do not use an electrical fire - far too expensive.
We have a blast of central heating all through the house first thing in the morning cos I am concerned about the fabric of the house and condensation. There is also the option of using TRVs to turn off the heating in individual rooms not used. Then, we use either the gas fire and/or the halogen heater depending whether one or two rooms are being used.
We also 'Karcher' the windows in the morning to get rid the condensation. Takes five mins.
To be warm is so important for one's physical and mental wellbeing, and we need to bite the bullet of high fuel bills.
We installed a new heating system and gas fire about a year ago which are super efficient and I also renewed the loft insulation about the same time.
Taking all these steps is pretty obvious. The alternative is hot water bottles, multiple layers of clothing, blankets and bobble hats. Three or four months of that a year is a living nightmare IMO.
Those heaters have mixed reviews on the sites Blue Matt posted. They look like electric heaters, what's the oil component?