How to Heat One Room Cheaply?

anotheruser

My bedroom gets quite chilly at night. When I'm in bed I'm fine but the air is jusg cold.
I know the obvious is to have the heating on overnight but I don't want to heat the whole house as that's usually fine for a few hours in the morning only.

I was thinking an electric strip heater (IE, not a fan one) but don't know if this would be fairly expensive? Or maybe have a timer plug and have it come on and off every few hours?

Any ideas on what's best?

Gloomendoom

An electric convection heater with a thermostat is probably your best bet.

If you are in bed it is a luxury though.

RedFraggle

For low level constant heat I'd go with an oil filled radiator

Grenage

I use an oil-filled radiator in our living room - we've got a parrot. Relatively expensive to run, but cheaper than heating the whole house.

Kiran

Oil rad with stat is a cheap and pretty efficient solution. When we moved house before we had the windows etc. done and my son was a baby we used to put an oil rad in his room to maintain temperature over night. I can't stand sleeping with the heating on so this solution worked out well

stator

There is no real difference in running costs, no electric heaters are more efficient than others.
Just make sure you get one with a timer and a thermostat. If you want to leave it unattended or whilst you sleep, then get an oil filled radiator as these are the only safe ones for that purpose.

thickasabrick

We have a far infrared heating panel in the bedroom to give a boost "on demand".

Reason is that we prefer a cooler bedroom to sleep in but prefer to "go to bed" and "get out of bed" at average temperatures. The TRV on the radiator (gas central heating) is usually set to a lower temperature than other rooms in the house which means that when we do retire to the bedroom it can seem cold.

The instant warmth from the far infrared panel means you can get to the bedroom turn it and within a minute the temperature feels comfortable enough to get changed. Also if you want to sit in bed and read for a while before sleeping you don't have to boost the central heating for the whole house.

The panel we have is a 700 watt one, which replaced a 2 kilowatt fan heater which we used in the living room for a boost on those occasions when coming home before the central heating had come on. It worked so well there that we now have one for the bedroom.

I prefer the way it heats compared to traditional convection heaters. Theoretically it should be cheaper to run as it is supposed to be more efficient.

You could probably use a smaller panel if it's just to boost the room to remove the chill rather than creating an "instant on" normal temperature zone.

anotheruser wrote: »

My bedroom gets quite chilly at night. When I'm in bed I'm fine but the air is jusg cold.
I know the obvious is to have the heating on overnight but I don't want to heat the whole house as that's usually fine for a few hours in the morning only.

I was thinking an electric strip heater (IE, not a fan one) but don't know if this would be fairly expensive? Or maybe have a timer plug and have it come on and off every few hours?

Any ideas on what's best?

pollypenny

Our heating goes off around 9pm. The bedroom does feel a bit cool when I go in and want to read in bed, so I just use an electric fire with a thermostat to give it a boost.

anotheruser

Hmm.
Many thoughts to be thinking about.
We did give the heating a boost for an hour before getting into bed, which seemed to work a bit but not perfect.

Thanks for the replies ��