Most economical (and safe) way to heat a bathroom

lostinrates

My advice would be to heat the room with a heater that plugs in outside the room and pull the door to, not maging the cord, it might for example, fit under the door when closed,then, remove the heater and close the door. The heat should last enough to keep you comfortable.
Sme portable heaters/radiators have timers, so you could set it to come on aout 45 mins before you plan to shower/bath.

heretolearn_2

I think it could be dangerous to use a normal heater you bring in on an extension, with the best intentions in the world it might just be tempting to leave it there one day while you are in the bath.

We used to have a wall electric heater, like a bar fire, wired directly into the wall, pull cord on and off, worked really well. Or those air blower ones linked to before look good.

safety is more important than being warm. Our bathrooms are unheated most of the time at the moment - it takes too long for the radiators to have an effect and we only want them warmed up for the few minutes we are in there, so we don't even put the radiators on at all. If the water's hot, it doesn't matter - you can always nip into a warm other room to get dry/dressed if you can't stand it.

samboette

Do you have a radiator on your landing?

If you shut your bedroom doors and leave your bathroom doop open it should warm up your bathroom as well as your landing.

We rarely use the bathroom radiator, the landing radiator (albeit on the outer bathroom wall) warms both areas enough for us not to feel chilly when getting out the shower and our bathroom is fairly big. I guess it would also depend the windows you have and how wll insulated your house is.

lostinrates

heretolearn wrote: »

I think it could be dangerous to use a normal heater you bring in on an extension, with the best intentions in the world it might just be tempting to leave it there one day while you are in the bath.

We used to have a wall electric heater, like a bar fire, wired directly into the wall, pull cord on and off, worked really well. Or those air blower ones linked to before look good.

safety is more important than being warm. Our bathrooms are unheated most of the time at the moment - it takes too long for the radiators to have an effect and we only want them warmed up for the few minutes we are in there, so we don't even put the radiators on at all. If the water's hot, it doesn't matter - you can always nip into a warm other room to get dry/dressed if you can't stand it.

I understand your point...but to me its like saying, best not to have a car in case you are tempted to driv ehaving has a drink or a gas oven lest one day you feel like putting your head in it!:D

We have no heating, and did just as described in precious posts, heating the room then removing the radiator and closing the door. Like most things, one has to be sensible and balance reward with safety. Clearly, i agree wi you that using the bathroom with a pluged in appliance would be foolhardy, and shouldn't be done.