Portable Heater for Bedroom

Zoom7000

With the winter approaching, it's starting to get rather chilly in my bedroom. I live in a converted 2 bedroom ground floor flat (privately rented) and our bedroom is what would have been the living room in the full house. Unfortunately, it has a large set of double glazed windows on 1 whole side facing the street and 1 small radiator that doesn't quite cut it for the whole room. Seeing as my daughter is only 6 months old, we want to get something to warm the room up now as opposed to just wrapping up. Can someone please recommend what is the best solution. Obviously, I want something that is as low cost as possible in terms of electricity usage. I'm prepared to spend up to the region of £50 but ideally looking in the range of £20-£30. It also has to be quiet (preferably silent!) as myself, the wife and of course the baby will be trying to sleep through it.

There are a lot of options it seems in term of convector heaters, oil heaters etc. So, does anyone have any recommendations with what I should go for?

cattie

Personally I'd go for a convector heater with temp control and timer. It's something I've always kept as a standby for if the c.h fails or to give additional warmth to a room when the temperatures plunge during really cold and icy winters. And they are silent as per your request.

I know Lidl recently had some & think they were around £20-£25 , but they are freely available in places such as Argos or Robert Dyas etc.

By the way, do you have nice heavy curtains up at those big windows? Only good heavy curtains can really help keep the place warmer.