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?

Here is a magic trick for insta-warmth. Add layers and then get someone to put their open mouth on your upper back and blow hard. It's amazing.

@user1486723488

To the anti-brasero person, most countries I have ever lived in (except UK) heat the person space not the room. Possibly to do with wealth etc. If you are cold when your entire body is wrapped in the huge fug of hot air surrounding your feet legs, waist and upper torso from a brasero, there might be something wrong with your circulation!! Or the blankets don't reach the floor all the way round. My circulation is fucked (heavy smoker) and I regularly have to get up and go outside simply to cool down again.

I am the anti brasero person. You can't work at a computer with a brasero system because you need your hands free and it only really works if everything except your head is under the blanket. Even then your face and nose is cold.

Hi has anyone got a 2k oil filled radiator, and if so how much does it cost per hour please (obvs depends on the provider I guess)

@TheUnquestionedAnswer

Hi has anyone got a 2k oil filled radiator, and if so how much does it cost per hour please (obvs depends on the provider I guess)

actually, it depends how cold the room is. If the room is cold, draughty and badly insulated, and the night is cold, it will be on most or all of the time.

If the room is cosy, well-insulated and draught free, and the occupant shuts the door, the thermostat will turn it off most of the time. When it is off it uses no electricity.

Electricity usually costs around 17p per kWh.

So if you put the heater outside, in a field, on a frosty night, and it was continually on, it would cost 34p per hour

if it was in your bedroom, it might cost 5p an hour.

@Gwenhwyfar

I'm a bit disgusted with all the people suggesting he just puts on an extra layer. That doesn't work as it doesn't heat the air around you. Get him a heater, halogen ones are supposed to be quite efficient.

Back in the old days before central heating that’s what people did.

In my last house we didn’t have central heating.

My top tip is to get a fleece blanket and pin it over the door frame. Keep the door shut as much as you can.

Those little oil filled radiators are great. We had one as the only source of heat in the bedroom. I would turn it on about an hour before bed and the room would be warm enough.