Hallogen heater

silkkat50

Hi there,

My sisters house is like an ice box, even with heating.. it doesnt work very well.. And she's low on funds, but she's freezing and also thinking about her two year old son, so she's thinking about buying a hallogen heater from pound stretcher for £6.99. Its 800 watts. Im wondering how much this would be to run per hour, i coulnt find this info anywhere on the web. Her friend says she has one and that it costs her 1p an hour to run, i think this is a tad unrealistic! cant possibly be that little or else eveyone would be doing that... Any help would be appreciated Kat x

Lugh_Chronain

Just got this info off another site

.....based mine on just using the 400w setting which with roughly be about 4p per hour..... using e7 about 2p per hours, but not 100% sure........

As has been pointed out they don't heat up a room very well; but do heat what they're pointing at; the heat is instant also so they're very good for rooms you occasionally visit as you can turn it on when you go into the room and turn off on the way out.
Because of that they can be very cheap compared to an oil-filled radiator or similar that you'd need to leave on all the time.

Also depends on the model of course, and how much you pay for electric....

Very roughly though 1kw is at least 10p
so
100w lightbulb = 1p an hour
400w heater = 4p an hour
800w = 8p
1200w = 12p
etc

Hope this helps.

Wilkinson's also have one which can be switched on to 400w, 800w or 1200w. Costs £9.97.

silkkat50

800w = 8p

So i guess it'll be about8p an hour.. I hope!!

I think she saw that one at wilkinsons but decided to go for the cheaper option.. Thanks very much

Lugh_Chronain

I wonder if these heaters can be turned up and down. I have an electric oil heater which I use in my kitchen and bathroom which can be turned down, it goes on and off every 15mins or so, so hopefully shouldn't use too much electricity. I turn it off when I'm not using those rooms. It is 1000w altogether and can be set to 500w as well.

emmell

I have a halogen heater in my conservatory (where I sit all the time), 3 bars, so I think that's 1200w. Each bar works independent. They only heat directly in front of them so I have mine about 2ft from my chair. I think they are very expensive to run as I was in serious trouble last year when my husband opened the electric bill (£740) for one 1/4. I had it confiscated and he bought me a mobile gas heater but that worked out expensive too so I had that confiscated and I'm back on the halogen heater.
I don't think it was just the heater (tumble drier also), but I don't think it helps.
ML.

BargainGalore

You be surprised just how much it costs to run. I got a shock when we moved house and used one for a while my bill was 2 times as much as same time in following years for that period granted we cut back on old bulbs etc

They are great to give instant heat but for long periods I wouldn't recommend one unless there CH isnt working etc

Mine you had 4 settings think it was 200w 400 600 and 800. I would have it on high and then turn it down to 200-400w if you can


855kw 06/03/07 - 21/04/07 now its around 380 -450 for two years since



Just looked at my meter readings for same period

pupmaster

First find out how much she is paying x=kwph (kilo watts per hour)this will be on her bill

Then 1kw fire =x per hour x 7 days x 3 months gives roughly price per quarter.