The oil filled radiator style heater is the best all around electric style heater.
Quiet Heat and Even Heat
You will be amazed at the radiant heat these can deliver. Give it a few minutes to warm up and you will soon feel it from across a room. Nice quiet and even heat. This type of heater is not the cheapest you will find, nor the most portable, so not the best if you need a portable lightweight heater.
When my daughter was born, the room we put her crib in had 2 outside walls and was in corner of the house farthest from the furnace. Those factors made the room feel cold, and no one ever wanted to spend much time in it. I put an oil filled heater in her room and it was always filled with a nice comforting warm heat. It really changed the feel of the room.
My office is in the basement, which is always a little chilly. I originally bought myself a nice fan forced tower heater, it even had a remote control. The heater works very well, but I found I would get really warm, and shut if off, and within a few minutes felt cold again. It would heat a room well, but it did not provide a nice even heat for my work area.
I now use a Honeywell model that has 3 levels of heat (1500W, 900W, and 600W), a thermostat, and a timer. (The one in the picture looks identical to the one I use). One of the nice features of the oil is that it will stay warm for a very long time after it shuts off. The benefit of this is that if I start to feel too warm and shut it off, the heat still slowly radiates so there isn’t a sudden removal of heat, it is a slow decline.
Leave a Reply