Is it worth getting a calor gas heater?

mancbird

Hello

Just wondering about whether or not I should get a calor gas heater?

We live in an old draughty house and I am starting to think about being warm this winter, especially as I am due a baby in 5 weeks time!

Our main source of heating is a wood burning stove in the front room (2 rooms knocked into 1 big room) and there is central heating in the house that is powered by this but the house never seems to get very warm.

Whilst on maternity leave, baby and me will spend most of our time on the house in the living room.

We have big French doors in this room leading to an unheated single glazed conservatory which have big thick velvet curtains up at them. The windows in the living room are sash windows and so get draughts around them. I am planning to make fleece curtain linings to try and keep out some of these draughts and also draught excluders for the doors.

The fire would be lit but I am worried about racing through wood and coal as they are expensive to get delivered here. If we got a calor gas heater we could also use it in the kitchen which is in a part of the house that used to be an outbuilding and so gets VERY cold!

Would a calor gas heater be fairly cheap to run? We have used oil filled radiators in the past to give extra heat but they haven't made much difference unless you are practically sat on top of them!

It is a rented house in an area that doesn't have gas as it is quite rural so we are limited in what we can do in the house.

Any help / advice appreciated!

Mancbird

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Calor gas heaters do give out lots of heat but smell awful and can cause horrendous condensation. I'd use one in a garage or outhouse/workshop but wouldn't consider using one in my house again. Plus the price of the bottles has rocketed. A decade ago they were a very cheap form of heating but not any more IMO.