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11-25-2008, 12:23 AM
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Heating a small room
What's more cost effective in a small room lets say 15ft x 10ft. I just moved into my new place and have electric baseboard heat with a digital thermostat to control the room temp. I was wondering would it be better for cost wise for me to use a oil filled heater plus the rooms electric heat or just one of them.
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11-25-2008, 12:45 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
I think trial and error is the only way to know for sure.
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11-25-2008, 12:57 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
For me, I use a large oil space heater, and set a $10 fan behind it. I turn the space heater on high, and the fan on low, and it keeps the room right about 80.
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11-25-2008, 01:01 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
Propane heat all the way.
on low it stays around the 70's on high will cook me out.
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11-25-2008, 04:41 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
We have propane\electric\woodstove and any of the three keep the house and large rooms at 70. for reptile rooms we use a fan that blows warm air in there and they all have their own enclosure with heat so they stay at the right temp. Propane seems to be the cheaspest though.
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11-25-2008, 04:54 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
I would recommend an oil space heater as well. They work very well and you generally wouldn't need to use your central heating. You can get them at Lowe's/Home Depot for about $30-40.
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11-25-2008, 05:14 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
I have an oil space heater (Lowes) that I use in the winter time. I have found it very efficient. I haven't even noticed a change on my heating bill.
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11-25-2008, 06:05 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
I've never heard of an oil space heater. How do those work?
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Re: Heating a small room
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I've never heard of an oil space heater. How do those work?
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They have oil in them which is heated up and produces radiant heat. Supposedly, they are safer than electric space heaters.
Here's a link to the kind I have:
DeLonghi at Lowe's: Oil-Filled Radiator Electric Heater
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11-25-2008, 06:24 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
The oil should be fine but you still use UTH though right?
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11-25-2008, 11:50 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
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The oil should be fine but you still use UTH though right? |
Oh yeah of course, I have a rack with belly heat. I'm just trying to find the best way to heat up the room for a good ambient room temp without skyrocketing the bill. Right now with the baseboard heat it's set at 80 degrees and stays there within .5 degrees.
I think I might lower that down to mid to low 70's and bring in one of my oil filled space heaters today.
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11-27-2008, 01:44 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
Depending on the size of the room with the oil heater going you could probably turn the baseboard heater off.
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11-27-2008, 02:31 AM
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Re: Heating a small room
I have an oil space heater as well. (Although, goon that I am, I never knew it was oil, thought it was water in there...so I was all what? Oil? Mine has water in it.) It heats a room about 15 x 15 quite nicely, and the room even has a huge sliding glass door. Heats it fine anyway. So I'm sure it would probably work fine for you.
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11-27-2008, 04:21 PM
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Re: Heating a small room
It's official, I brought from home my oil filled heater that I had in my parents basement when I lived down there and it works like magic. I have my baseboard heat on 68 which I probably can just shut it off but kept on just incase the heater broke and I was not home.
I have the oil filled heater on low and my room is staying about 83-84, I love it. I'm going to turn it down a little and see if I can get it about 82ish.
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