Electric Heater for single room

wintergirl

Hi. Wonder if anyone can advise best on the following please?

My elderly mother (88) had a (very) old gas fire in her open plan kitchen/living space. Only source of heat. (Storage heaters in other rooms.) This gas fire has now just packed up.

She did have a gas fire in her small living room until last year. That stopped working, so we replaced it with another. However, either the combination of her arthritis and/or her dementia meant that she could not get on with the new gas fire, or manage to light it, so in the end it was causing her such concern that we had to take it out and put a small electric heater in instead. (There is a storage heater in that room, so this was just secondary heating.)

So, my problem is that now this old gas fire in her back room come kitchen has broke, and she is adamant that she does not want a new gas fire to replace it, what is the best form of electric heater to put in?
I know that electric is way more expensive than gas, but if she really can't get on with it, a new gas fire will just end up being an ornament in the fire place, along with a cold room that has no other form of heat. I am just concerned at what type of electric fire might heat the room up reasonably quickly on a cold morning, and then give a constant heat to keep an 88 year old warm enough, (without having to rob a bank to pay the electricity bills!!!)
Any ideas please???

macman

All electric heaters are 100% efficient, so it makes no difference what you fit in terms of running costs. And it will cost approx 350%-400 more than gas to run, since she is already on an E7 tariff and so will be running it on the expensive day rate.
Why can't you just mend the existing fire(s)? Gas fires are fairly basic and robust devices, they don't just 'break'. If parts are available, they can usually be mended.
Or put in a storage heater instead on the E7 circuit?