How do i heat one room all day cheaply?

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Ds is studying at home, hes cold during the day. We're in Scotland. I put the heating on yesterday but it heats all the house including radiators that are broken and I can't turn them down.
So is it cheaper to buy him a wee heater for his room alone? Rather than turn the house heating on all day?

Some thing like this is what I use at home to heat my office:

https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/dragonplus11-2.5w/electriq-dragonplus112.5w-heater?refsource=apadwords&mkwid=sCkv4q1EBdm&pcrid=444691490308&product=DragonPlus11-2.5W&pgrid=101649715886&ptaid=pla-838660100560&channel=googlesearch&gclid=CjwKCAjw49qKBhAoEiwAHQVTozi8PuxSnNXmrPdMxzmkhBCffRCQkOK6DAGZUGRPQYLPjBg77Nvk6BoCpLMQAvDBwE

Microwaveable slippers and a good fleece blanket have worked really well for me.

That one costs about 47p an hour but I don't have it on constantly by any means as once hot it stays hot quite a while.

Depending on the size of the room you could get a lower kw one which would be less per hour. Really depends on how many gas radiators you have in your house too as to when the oil radiator option becomes significantly cheaper.

We have Honeywell heating and control each radiator on its own individual thermostat, so often only heat one room at a time.

The system came with the house so not sure how much it costs though.

Last winter I wfh the whole time and used layers, wrist warmers and a heated throw to keep warm. I didn't turn the heating on till the children got home from school. It seemed wasteful to heat the whole house all day just for me. Admittedly it was a pretty mild winter though.

Infrared heater, my dad has one in his workshop says it keeps him nice and warm and doesn't cost the earth.

Kotatsu or a brasero, usually around 500-900w. You heat a space under for example a table with a blanket over it, which you pull over your legs and lower body. Very cheap, very efficient and deliciously warm.

Blanket must reach floor on all sides of the table and if you lose your cats, they will be underneath, purring madly!!

For those of you using a blanket to help keep warm, it’s far far better to actually lay the blanket on the chair then sit on the blanket and wrap it up over your legs / middle. That way, any cold draughts at floor level won’t creep up into the blanket.
For the pp who moaned at suggestions about wearing layers, you’re wrong. Having good layers ensures that the warmth your body generates is trapped in, thus you become a self-heating mechanism.

My DS works from home at a computer desk wearing a slanket! They are great and very cosy warm with a pocket for feet and pouch in the front you can pop a hot water bottle in.

The system came with the house so not sure how much it costs though.

The individual radiator thermostats are about 60 quid each. We looked in to it and it was going to be about 800 quid just to do our radiators. That’s on top of the cost for the main thermostat.

All electric heaters, regardless of type, are 100% efficient and will cost the same to run for a given heat output.

But an oil filled radiator warms a room for longer, after it has stopped taking power from the mains as it continues to radiate heat.

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

You can also put a couple of clippy hangers on a fleece blanket and hang it from the top of your doorframe — really helpful if you have draughts coming in.

Such a good idea, I can't believe I hadn't thought of this.

@user1486723488

Kotatsu or a brasero, usually around 500-900w. You heat a space under for example a table with a blanket over it, which you pull over your legs and lower body. Very cheap, very efficient and deliciously warm.

I live in a country where braseros are a big thing. I hate them, everything not under the blanket is cold. Cold upper body, cold hands, cold nose.

Dh uses an oil filled radiator when he works from home.

Good old fashioned jumper usually works for me

I wouldn't expect my child to be sat in a wooly hat in the house because he was so cold

But an oil filled radiator warms a room for longer, after it has stopped taking power from the mains as it continues to radiate heat.

It still puts the same amount of heat into the room as any other electric heater. It takes longer to warm up when you switch it on and takes longer to cool down.

Oil filled radiator and/or electric blanket

I would go for an oil filled electric heater plus a thick onesie, thick socks and maybe fingerless gloves. Being sedentary makes you colder and hands in particular get very cold even in a heated room. A onesie is just like having a blanket over you but without the limitations of a blanket,especially the not wanting to move because it's warm underneath but not once you move it.

I want his room to be warm. Ive judt remembered we have a halogen patio heater, a tall thing, would this be cheap to run i wonder?

Good old fashioned jumper usually works for me

Won’t keep my legs and feet warm.

It still puts the same amount of heat into the room as any other electric heater. It takes longer to warm up when you switch it on and takes longer to cool down.

It doesn’t take that long to heat up, and as it takes longer to cool down, it is still heating the room when it is no longer using electricity. It’s a fairly basic principle of physics.

Seems many people miss the point of oil filled radiators, which is, you don’t need to have them taking power from the mains to have them giving out heat.

"Good old fashioned jumper usually works for me"*

@BoredZelda
Won’t keep my legs and feet warm.

Perhaps some woolly trousers, woolly socks and a pair of slippers, just a suggestion

use a lakeland heated clothes airer to heat my office ( single room sized). Low cost and with the door closed it is warm (sometimes even too hot)

Came on to recommend this. Heats my largeish bedroom in the winter, no probs.

@christmassausages

Oil filled not pills filled obviously

I was wondering, had never heard of pill-filled radiators!