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Gas central heating or Convection Heater?
Just wondering which is cheaper to run central heating on gas or a cheap convection heater and an oil filled plug in radiator?
2 rooms are used a lot, I have a convection heater in 1 room and an oil filled radiator in another room. Would it be cheaper if I heated the full house using the central heating? A couple of hours in the morning, afternoon and evening? Or carry on using the oil filled in 1 room and the convection heater in the other room, they are used 50% of the time.
I need the house to be warm at all times as I live with an elderly/bed bound person.
Any advice welcome as I don't know nothing about this sort of thing, except I feel I'm paying way too much.
2 rooms are used a lot, I have a convection heater in 1 room and an oil filled radiator in another room. Would it be cheaper if I heated the full house using the central heating? A couple of hours in the morning, afternoon and evening? Or carry on using the oil filled in 1 room and the convection heater in the other room, they are used 50% of the time.
I need the house to be warm at all times as I live with an elderly/bed bound person.
Any advice welcome as I don't know nothing about this sort of thing, except I feel I'm paying way too much.
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Always use gas CH, but turn off radiators in the rooms not in use.
Producing heat from electrical heaters costs between two and three times more than from gas - depending on the efficiency of your gas boiler.0
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