please help with heating home

essexsi_2

Hi first post so please be gentle.

My sisters boiler has been condemned as it is leaking carbon monoxide. Until she can get a new boiler ( when money allows) what is the cheapest way to heat the house.
The immersion works for hot water so thats no problem , but the house is cold at the moment and she has a little boy. I was thinking along the lines of buying her electric heaters or maybe oil filled radiators but was wondering about the running cost.

Any help or advice gratefully recieved.
cheers Si

Horace

My flat only has electric heating and rather than put the convector heaters on that were supplied by my landlord, I use oil-filled radiators that have thermostats on them so they switch on and off and anyway once they are hot I switch them off and bask in the radiated heat. I don't think they cost any more or any less than the usual electric heaters.

eco123

I recommend using small oil filled radiators. I have a 1.5kw one & it gives off loads of heat, plus it has a thermostat fitted. I use the low setting of 500w.

newlywed

Our boiler is out of action at the moment and it's costing us about £1 and hour to heat the water on immersion (we are on prepay electric). Please encourage her to remember to turn it off again each time

We are opting for draft excluders, slippers, extra blankets, fleece blanket on the sofa, options and I plan to get some hot water bottles for the beds.

Thankfully we are in rented so it will be fixed soon.

essexsi_2

thank you for taking the trouble to reply.

Think I will look down the route of the oil filled radiators. However the draught proofing route is also worth doing anyway, no point heating the room and then losing it all!!

Thanks Si