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Electric heater
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:40 pm
Looking for the best 110 electric heater on the market. Anyone know of one out there that can heat a large room?
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:41 pm to Dolemite
Why not a wood burning heater?
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:43 pm to Traffic Circle
Bought one for the wife last year. Our bathroom is over 500sqft and that bitch doesn't have a heater built in. This thing solved the prob. Gimme a sec and I'll see if I can google it
ETA: bitch referring to the bathroom, not the wife
ETA: bitch referring to the bathroom, not the wife
This post was edited on 11/16/14 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:54 pm to Schmelly
My bath has cold arse tile floors & 12 ft ceiling. Takes about 10 minutes to turn it into a sauna
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:55 pm to Schmelly
If you're getting it for a bedroom to sleep with, you'll be lowering the heat during the night if you max it out
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:57 pm to Dolemite
Do you want to warm the air or warm objects in the room? Big difference between those two when selecting electric heaters. Best type I recommend are the oil-radiator type. More efficient for large rooms and no risk of burning anything.
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:59 pm to Clames
The oil radiator type heat just as well? How big an area can they cover?
Posted on 11/16/14 at 10:01 pm to Dolemite
My bathroom has no auxillary heater so I bought one of these from the walmarks...
LINK
My bathroom is fairly large and this thing heats it up toasty warm within about 15 minutes...I also used it with a generator once during an ice storm and it did fairly well in the bedroom, but did struggle to keep up with no other heat source in the house...I would say that if you plan to try to heat something like a garage, this will not be large enough, but if you are looking for supplemental heat in a cold room of the house, this will do the trick....
be sure that whatever you get shuts off automatically if tipped over and also be sure that it doesn't draw too much power for the circuit that you plan to plug it in to.....
ETA: this is anchored because the title is too short...
LINK
My bathroom is fairly large and this thing heats it up toasty warm within about 15 minutes...I also used it with a generator once during an ice storm and it did fairly well in the bedroom, but did struggle to keep up with no other heat source in the house...I would say that if you plan to try to heat something like a garage, this will not be large enough, but if you are looking for supplemental heat in a cold room of the house, this will do the trick....
be sure that whatever you get shuts off automatically if tipped over and also be sure that it doesn't draw too much power for the circuit that you plan to plug it in to.....
ETA: this is anchored because the title is too short...
This post was edited on 11/16/14 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 11/16/14 at 10:11 pm to Dolemite
Few hundred sqft depending on the model. GF uses a 1500W one for her living room in her apartment.
Posted on 11/16/14 at 10:13 pm to Spankum
Its been in the 20's and 30's lately and am heating a 900 square foot room with a oil radiator. Its 1500 watts/12.5 amps and heats better than two shitty coil space heaters.
The trick with the radiators is to have slow air circulation in the room. Like a box fan on low. The objects in the middle of the room are warm to the touch and the ends of the room are heated by the air circulation. Much cheaper than a typical fan driven space heater and much less risk of fire.
Space heaters constantly consume energy to keep the coils hot. The radiators heat up the oil and then shut down until the oil needs to be heated again.
The trick with the radiators is to have slow air circulation in the room. Like a box fan on low. The objects in the middle of the room are warm to the touch and the ends of the room are heated by the air circulation. Much cheaper than a typical fan driven space heater and much less risk of fire.
Space heaters constantly consume energy to keep the coils hot. The radiators heat up the oil and then shut down until the oil needs to be heated again.
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