Don't forget that unless you keep a room door closed your little heater will try to heat the entire building. Another thing to consider is that when you heat the entire building you are heating the structure which will require energy but it will also feed that back to you. A building where the fixtures and fittings are cold will absorb heat. Older homes up here anyway had doors all over the place. It is still very common in England for similar reasons. Often before central heating people did only heat the rooms they were using while they were using them. they might have a fire place in each room and you close the door to keep the heat in that room. It drives me crazy, my in-laws have wonderful central heating but they have all these doors closed all of the time, tradition I suppose.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jesus Is the Answer To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:39 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re:electric heaters They have 1500-watt quartz heaters for around $40 at Walmart. Yesterday I bought a regular 1500-watt one for $13. Not knowing what quartz is, I took the cheaper route. Wished I had waited a day. Now I know. Thanks for the info. I noticed that in the instructions, it talks about a hot plug being a sign that the the recepticle is not delivering enough amps. If the house wiring leading up to the recepticle isn't tight or is too small, then this will cause resistance. The heat caused by the resistance will travel to the plug and make it hot. Every year we have in the news cases of house fires caused by electric space heaters, but I didn't know what their cause was. This could be one of them. Here's what I think about savings: A lot of your air from gas space heaters and central air goes to the ceiling. If you are home by yourself with a little electric space heater, you can have heat directed right at you, and save having to heat everything, including the ceiling. When you're sleeping, you could heat only the bedroom and not the whole house, except when it gets really cold and freezing pipes in the kitchen and bathroom might be a factor. ---Anthony [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
