What electric heating device should I buy?

Veteransaver

How big is your boiler (kW) and how big is your house? Is it a combi boiler?
Sounds like either the boiler isn't setup right (flow temp is too low), your radiators are too small, pump if not working or set too low, or your pipework is sludged up so the boiler is cycling on and off, or a combination of those.
Are all the radiators getting properly hot? In this weather they should be nearly too hot to touch (if starting the system up from a cold start - though that isn't necessarily the most efficient way to run it, but if your rads are too small you'll need to run them quite hot)

snowqueen555

I'd say gas central heating is pretty cheap in comparison to electric heating.

Like a previous commenter, I use a targeted radiant heater when WFH, 300w setting and it is on and off a lot. I hate those fan heaters, the hot air tends to go up and gets wasted.

Rodders53

What electric heating device should I buy?  None.

Sort out the draught-proofing and insulation as much as possible. Plus sort out the heating system and controls.  (Read the manuals supplied with them, or google for them via make and model.)

Any home with a brand new boiler should be able to be heated via it unless something was woefully under-specified or an installation setting messed up.

saveallmymoney

If you are working at a desk, i find my heated desk pad to be remarkably effective.

Brie

Thank you for the time you've put in to commenting.  I know that electric is expensive.  I know that I should insulate, exclude drafts, heat the person.  I've tried to do as much of that as possible. 

I need to get my thermostat set so that the minimum temperature is always a bit higher than currently (16c) so that there's a chance that the house will approach the target temperature (20c) during the twice daily heating bursts.  The thermostat is in the hall by the door into the kitchen which is a completely unheated room and at least cool even during summer heat waves.  What the answer is to the other questions (boiler settings etc) I haven't a clue. 

So I'm left with needing to get something to plug in that will heat a room that I'm moving around in.  Still hoping for suggestions.  

Spoonie_Turtle

If you need the room to be warm, oil filled radiator.

If you need to be warm in the room, maybe infra-red heater.

Or a heated gilet, or a long hot water bottle that you can tie around you, or any other heat-the-person type things suitable for moving around. 

Presumably you need your hands to be uncovered and washable if you're working in the kitchen (and completely unheated sounds pretty grim), so if it were me I'd probably go for the oil-filled radiator.  I've experienced the infra-red heaters at train stations and if you can stand or sit in the beam, it's bliss.  As soon as you move out of it though, really not bliss any longer!

The oil filled radiator will have a thermostat so if the room gets up to the temp you set, it'll click on and off to maintain the temperature rather than continually drawing the high power.

MultiFuelBurner

Brie said:

Thank you for the time you've put in to commenting.  I know that electric is expensive.  I know that I should insulate, exclude drafts, heat the person.  I've tried to do as much of that as possible. 

I need to get my thermostat set so that the minimum temperature is always a bit higher than currently (16c) so that there's a chance that the house will approach the target temperature (20c) during the twice daily heating bursts.  The thermostat is in the hall by the door into the kitchen which is a completely unheated room and at least cool even during summer heat waves.  What the answer is to the other questions (boiler settings etc) I haven't a clue. 

So I'm left with needing to get something to plug in that will heat a room that I'm moving around in.  Still hoping for suggestions.  

You seem set on two daily burst and not actually seeing what is required to heat you home to a reasonable temperature for yourself.

Looking at additional expensive heating before finding out what what actually costs you in gas (which will be cheaper) is nuts to be honest.

Spoonie_Turtle

MultiFuelBurner said:

Brie said:

Thank you for the time you've put in to commenting.  I know that electric is expensive.  I know that I should insulate, exclude drafts, heat the person.  I've tried to do as much of that as possible. 

I need to get my thermostat set so that the minimum temperature is always a bit higher than currently (16c) so that there's a chance that the house will approach the target temperature (20c) during the twice daily heating bursts.  The thermostat is in the hall by the door into the kitchen which is a completely unheated room and at least cool even during summer heat waves.  What the answer is to the other questions (boiler settings etc) I haven't a clue. 

So I'm left with needing to get something to plug in that will heat a room that I'm moving around in.  Still hoping for suggestions.  

You seem set on two daily burst and not actually seeing what is required to heat you home to a reasonable temperature for yourself.

I don't know how that will solve the problem in a room without heating? 

Adequate heating elsewhere may reduce the heating requirements in the unheated room, but it's not going to make it *warm enough* without everywhere else being too warm.

dealyboy

I'll keep you warm Brie, maybe we could enjoy all those cheeses together ... especially extra mature like me. 

MultiFuelBurner

Spoonie_Turtle said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Brie said:

Thank you for the time you've put in to commenting.  I know that electric is expensive.  I know that I should insulate, exclude drafts, heat the person.  I've tried to do as much of that as possible. 

I need to get my thermostat set so that the minimum temperature is always a bit higher than currently (16c) so that there's a chance that the house will approach the target temperature (20c) during the twice daily heating bursts.  The thermostat is in the hall by the door into the kitchen which is a completely unheated room and at least cool even during summer heat waves.  What the answer is to the other questions (boiler settings etc) I haven't a clue. 

So I'm left with needing to get something to plug in that will heat a room that I'm moving around in.  Still hoping for suggestions.  

You seem set on two daily burst and not actually seeing what is required to heat you home to a reasonable temperature for yourself.

I don't know how that will solve the problem in a room without heating? 

Adequate heating elsewhere may reduce the heating requirements in the unheated room, but it's not going to make it *warm enough* without everywhere else being too warm.

I think I replied early on no point buying another heater if you don't know what it takes in gas to get your home to a comfortable temperature for yourself.

Most of the time (especially with gas) it will be cheaper to get the home (rooms with TRV's etc) to a comfortable temp rather than buying other devices.

As the OP seems to only want to do two bursts a day with heating I was questioning perhaps changing their attitude to this and trying something else and learning what it actually costs to heat their home to a comfortable level. Like baselining getting that data known and then you can make informed decisions from there especially financial ones.

They can of course ignore this and buy a supplementary electric heater