Which is more economical

houseplant

Just wondering if I needed one room in the house kept above a certain temp what would be the most cost effective way to do it? I have gas heating and it's crippling me cost wise. Don't want babys room to drop too low on cold nights. I have zoned heating upstairs/downstairs. Fire on downstairs and we don't need heat in our room yet. Should I give it a blast every few hours overnight with the rest if the radiators turned off or does that make a difference? Thanks

houseplant

Anyone?

Stone Deaf 4evr

Hi,

we had a similar dilemma, in the end what we did was get an oil filled electric radiator for the babys room, it has its own thermostat so only comes on when the room gets cold. Our house is only 5 years old so the insulation in the walls is pretty good at retaining the heat. we've done this every winter for the last 3 years and to be honest, I dont really see any impact on the electricity bill.

Wearb

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Hi,

we had a similar dilemma, in the end what we did was get an oil filled electric radiator for the babys room, it has its own thermostat so only comes on when the room gets cold. Our house is only 5 years old so the insulation in the walls is pretty good at retaining the heat. we've done this every winter for the last 3 years and to be honest, I dont really see any impact on the electricity bill.

I agree and think that is your best bet OP.

Sorry I didn't read your post properly. With gas heating and the fact that a gas burner can modulate for the heating demand, it may work just as well to set this room up as a different zone and just control that room with a thermostat. You may be able to just leave the zone that that bedroom is already on switched on overnight (stat controlled of course) and turn off the other rads on that zone.

Maybe too complicated. Possibly elect rad best option after all.

houseplant

Thanks for your help folks

emg74

When our kids were little and in cots, we used a oil-filled radiator in the babies room. I bought a plug in thermostat and used that along with the oil-filled rad. Never noticed a big jump in the ESB bill and I was always happy knowing that even if they wriggled out from under the blankets that the room was still warm enough.

Lots here on eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/plug-in-thermostat

Wearb

emg74 wrote: »

When our kids were little and in cots, we used a oil-filled radiator in the babies room. I bought a plug in thermostat and used that along with the oil-filled rad. Never noticed a big jump in the ESB bill and I was always happy knowing that even if they wriggled out from under the blankets that the room was still warm enough.

Lots here on eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/plug-in-thermostat

Most of them have a built in thermostat.

emg74

I know they do now, ours was an old one and it is a few years ago when we used it