Portable Electric heaters?

glittermonster

Any suggetions on the best electrical heaters?

Halagon/oil/fan/convection?

We have electric ceiling heatig - don't ask!! - in out 2 bed maisonette!

We use it in the living area last winter and it's expensive and takes a good couple of hours to warm up, with no timer facility!

We used an oil filled electric radiator downstairs in our bedroom and a fan heater for the bathroom or spare room to help dry the washing!

So this winter am thinking of gettig a couple
more heaters to save on the ceilig heatig and keep us warm!

The halogen will be too bright for the bedroom and a fan too noisy when we are sleeping!

Just wondered if anyone had any recommendation?

Katie-Kat-Kins

I think for your lounge you won't go wrong with a fan heater, you get very instant results so you can just click it on when you go in and you feel the benefit immediately. They are also small and portable and cheap to buy.

They generally have a built in thermostat so that you can regulate the temperature and you can use a plug in timer if you want to set it to come on for a certain time.

I'm currently using one in our lounge as it isn't really cold enough to justify the massive storage heater in there at the moment especially not just for 3 hours in the evening. When I was at uni I had one in my bedroom that I used in conjunction with a time switch. The time switch would turn it on about half an hour before my alarm went off so the room was warm before i got up - brilliant! The thermostat meant that it only came on if the room was cold enough to need it.

Personally the noise of one doesn't bother me but it does bother some.

For the lounge a haologen would be my second choice for many of the same reasons, instant direct heat that you feel. But as you say too bright for the bedroom.

I don't like oil filled electric heaters much, they take ages to warm up and don't feel like they give off much but they would work for the bedroom, just bear in mind that you need to turn them on earlier than you need them so that they can warm up and then turn them off earlier so you can utilise the residual heat.

We have a wall mounted wired in panel heater in the bedroom but we only use it in the absolute depths of winter, most of the year we manage with extra blankets and warm PJs and the heat from the rest of the house. This is because it doesn't have a timer and it is waaay to easy to forget and leave it on in the morning, and you can have it on for when you go to bed without it staying on all night, so it is a bit useless. If it had a timer it would be ok, so we might look at getting one this winter.

glittermonster

thank you for your reply - a very interesting read.