Halogen Heaters

[Dris]

How cheap are they to run in your opinion?

I refuse to put the gas central heaing on -im in debit from last year and am now paying £86 a month - major considering i'm on my own most of the time.So i'm heating an empty house.Ive done the radiators but the heat still escapes.Thats sorted now -just dont use gas.

So decided to get 2 halogen heaters which I can use to heat the rooms I am using -like ones is in the lounge ATM the other is in my bedroom to take the cold air off.

What do you think?
Are they the modern day equivelent to the mobile gas heaters from years gone by?

[Count-A-Strong]

Roughly 6p per hour on full (assuming 1200w).

[The Builder]

DrisGirl ........ the attraction of the mobile gas heaters was that they were "pay as you go" ........ no bills. You'll still have a bill with any form of electric heating. If you can do it, it would be far more efficient to shut down ALL the rads you don't need, and just use the two you really want.
Perthshire's lovely ................. can you move down south for the winter though?

[Dris]

Thanks Count -relatively cheap then nice one !!

The Builder -true re cost but Gas is just extornionate .I usually do shut the radiators down -must check again that they are all off.
Hey thats nice of you say -Perthshire is indeed lovely but bl00dy cold -a migration would be tempting lol

[ummmm]

I hate central heating. It makes me feel sick. In the kitchen we have underfloor heating which costs about 18p a day to run. The bedrooms have electric blankets which costs about 4p and if the living room is cold I put the fire on but it only needs to be on for about 20mins.

[jamesnan]

Before we had central heating,on the upstairs landing we used a long small convector heater, which was exceptionally low wattage, but kept the chill off the place by having it on most of the time. A similar type is the tubular skirting heater ((sometimes used in greenhouses) which looks a long tubular bulb in a frame but is really a heater, and sits on the floor - again, very very low wattage but keeps the chill off. Cheap to run.

[Dris]

ummm-the underfloor heating sounds brilliant and very cheap to run.I also cant go central heating -it dries me out and makes me sleepy.Im flummoxed as to why my bill was so high from last winter -its just very expensive.Ive seen me putting a fleece on rather than out the heating on.

jamesnan-I know the convector heaters youre on about.My husband has several in the caravan he lives in when he works away.He has to keep them on 24/7 in the cold weather in case the pipes freeze (the owner covers thst though).

I left the halogens on yesterday afternoon while at work and it took the chill off for coming home and I didnt have them on the rest of the night so i'll run with them in the meantime.