Do you use space heaters?

[Road Runner]

I love them.  I can keep my den and kitchen warm and toasty while the rest of the house remains cool and thrifty.  I have one in the bathroom, too, for bathroom stuff.  

My favorite style is the oil-filled heater, as shown below.  No fire or burn danger, just warm and friendly.  I like to drape my socks and other intimate apparel over top of them about ten minutes prior to donning them.  Warm socks on cold feet is an orgasmic experience.    

 

[Airehead]

No, this house is warm and toasty. I never found those oil filled ones out off enough heat. 

[Road Runner]

4 minutes ago, Airehead said:

No, this house is warm and toasty. I never found those oil filled ones put off enough heat. 

You don't use them to heat your whole house.  Just one room.  They put out about 5000 BTUs.

[Airehead]

2 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

You don't use them to heat your whole house.  Just one room.  They put out about 5000 BTUs.

I think it is the heat up time that made me not like them. 

[Parsnip Totin Jack]

Nope. 

[2Far]

 Nope. We had a coupla those oil filled units is SA b/c we didn’t have central heat in the house. 

[2Far]

I have a little one in the garage somewhere, I think I brought it home from a project. 

[Further]

We have one of those but haven't used it since installing the pellet stove. I liked it, but the pellet stove is better.

[Road Runner]

3 minutes ago, Airehead said:

I think it is the heat up time that made me not like them. 

The only drawback.  They probably need about 15 minutes to start putting out maximum heat.

[Guest]

Just the four-footed furry kind.

[Road Runner]

I feel bad that so many of you are missing out on the warm sock orgasm thing.  

[shootingstar]

No. If we had to use a space heater in a condo, then there's something wrong with the building itself....since we're paying fees.

[donkpow]

Yes, in one room. The radiant heat is more effective than the convective heat. It allows me to keep the room temperature about five degrees lower.

[ChrisL]

Space heaters, hee hee. My furnace crapped out 2 years ago and I haven’t missed it.

[jdc2000]

I have several of these.  I run them on the 750 watt setting, so there is no danger of overheating or setting anything on fire.

 

[Allen]

I did in the old farmhouse. It’s heated with a wood stove and I kept one in the bathroom and one in the darkroom. 

I don’t use one at Springwood. Central heat works well  

 

 

[Road Runner]

3 minutes ago, ChrisL said:

Space heaters, hee hee. My furnace crapped out 2 years ago and I haven’t missed it.

I remember a night I spent in San Diego without any heat and I almost froze to death.  Okay, maybe that is an exaggeration, but I was certainly cold!

[Road Runner]

9 minutes ago, Allen said:

I don’t use one at Springwood. Central heat works well

Youse guys are missing the point.  The space heater allows you to keep your central heat set low, saving you money and doing your share to reduce your carbon footprint.  The space heater, along with closing doors, allows you to keep your main living space warm without wasting heat on mostly unused spaces, such as dining rooms, bedrooms, fancy living rooms, etc.  

[Zephyr]

One in our half basement as there is  no heater on there, just the washer and dryer

[Longjohn]

37 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

I feel bad that so many of you are missing out on the warm sock orgasm thing.  

Just where are you wearing that heated sock? 

[Square Wheels]

We have a couple, use them every now and then when it gets super cold.  haven't needed them this year.

[groupw]

We use a quartz heater for the family room as air circulation isn’t great back here. It does let us keep the rest of the house a couple degrees cooler. 

[groupw]

1 hour ago, Road Runner said:

Warm socks on cold feet is an orgasmic experience.    

 

Do they have their own load in the laundry? 

[Kirby]

yes.  It can heat up a room quickly prior to the house heat kicking into full gear.

[Wilbur]

No, in floor heat keeps the place toasty and feet warm. 

[maddmaxx]

We have one fake fire with fan insert in the fireplace.  It gets used just a couple of time during the year when it gets really cold.  That way we don't have to turn the heat up in the whole house.

[JerrySTL]

Oil space heater in the bathroom at night. The rest of the house is at 62F.

[Airehead]

I think @Longjohn uses a space heater if it gets below 80 in his house. 

[jsharr]

I have never been to space.

[BuffJim]

Bought this guy for $5 at a garage sale.  Works pretty well, and doesn’t hurt the electric bill. 

[Longjohn]

I took a bunch of them to the twice blessed store in town. I don’t know how we got so many of them. I know my wife bought one for the master bathroom and decided it was too big. She put it back in the box and bought a smaller one. She bought one for her cubicle at work and didn’t like it so she bought another one. Then work banned space heaters because they were tripping the breakers and messing up the computers. I think several people gave her theirs because they didn’t need them at home. I think her mom gave her one or two when she was trying to get rid of extra stuff. I left the one in the bathroom and donated all the others. We haven’t used the little one in the bathroom for several years.

[Ralphie]

We just keep the hoose cold and deal with it. No sock orgasms.

 

[Randomguy]

I would use one, if I needed it.

[smudge]

I have one in the downstairs bathroom for really cold days. I also have one in the workout room in the basement.

Then of course there is the Me. Heater Big Buddy as my only heat source in the shed.

[Bikeguy]

At our hone, the heat gets turned on when it gets down to 59F inside the home, in the fall.   Then the thermostat is set for 63F until the spring.  That’s with a 97% efficient gas furnace.

Electric space heater..., how many hours do you use them per day?   How many watts?  How much is the cost per kilowatt hour for power?  It probably is cheaper just to turn up your heat a few degrees. 

At least where I live natural gas is a lot cheaper than using electricity for heat.

[Longjohn]

13 minutes ago, Bikeguy said:

At our hone, the heat gets turned on when it gets down to 59F inside the home, in the fall.   Then the thermostat is set for 63F until the spring.  That’s with a 97% efficient gas furnace.

Electric space heater..., how many hours do you use them per day?   How many watts?  How much is the cost per kilowatt hour for power?  It probably is cheaper just to turn up your heat a few degrees. 

At least where I live natural gas is a lot cheaper than using electricity for heat.

Not everyone has access to gas. It’s great if you can get it.

[bikeman564™]

I have a tiny one that I sometimes use to keep warm when I'm at my 'puter. Works very well for a small room.

[MoseySusan]

I like our oil heater. And I have a foot warmer beneath my desk. 

[MickinMD]

Several years ago - for the first time - a bird fell down the chimney, crawled to the gas furnace exhaust fan, causing a sensor to prevent the furnace from firing up. It was a Winter, Saturday late afternoon, I couldn't call my furnace's installer until Monday, so I went out and bought two 1500W, rotating nichrome-wire type space heaters to keep my TV room and kitchen warm.

I still have them in case of emergency.  A very frugal cousin said I should use one in the early fall to keep the TV room warm and leave the rest of the house at it's unheated 55-60°, but I told her the extra $100 I might spend instead to heat the house isn't going to drive me into poverty or accelerate Global Warming.

I do keep my 2nd floor cool during the winter unless I have guests using the upstairs bedrooms.  If I ever get around to using my Soloflex machine - set up on the 2nd floor in the Winter, I'll use the space heaters just as I've used a window air conditioner in the summer.  But since my 2015 shoulder problems began, I haven't used it.

[Bikeguy]

13 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Not everyone has access to gas.

OK… that’s true.  In that case, space heaters probably are a good idea.

One thing to add about warm feet.  My daughter’s home has heated floors in the bathrooms.   I just LOVE how toasty warm the floor on my feet.  

[donkpow]

9 hours ago, MickinMD said:

Several years ago - for the first time - a bird fell down the chimney,

Did you install a wire screen and cap over the chimney?

[Indy]

I've got four kerosene heaters, a salamander kerosene heater, probably around four heaters of different types.

No, I don't like space heaters.

Though with the new house, have a gas fireplace, so we only use that and an electric fireplace heater I have in a bonus room upstairs.  But if I got cold, I've got plenty of heaters to warm up with.

[Airehead]

We have propane heat and the house is very warm because it is not drafty at all. If I get a chill, I turn the fireplace on in the main room. 

[12string]

Stop using space heaters!  It's bad enough we're warming up the globe, do you really want to also screw up the galaxy?

[sheep_herder]

Two of the type Paul Harvey advertised, one in the 3-season room and one in the shop. Dog's crates are in the 3-season room, and the freezer, paint, etc. are in the shop.