electric heater or central heating for cold homeworker

[CleverClogg]

One adult in the household works from home most days and gets cold. Last year they used an electric heater in their room, to economise on central heating. Our electricity provider is charging 30p per unit now. So on paper that looks like putting the central heating on would be cheaper. Surely that cant be right? Condensation boiler in a 3 bed property.

A heated throw wrapped around you would be cheapest.

Heated throw... simply blissful!

How about an oil filled radiator? Also remember if a heater/oil filled radiator is on a thermometer and only heating one room it won’t be on all the time. A room will heat up quickly. My oil filled radiator is off more than it clicks on.

It is an oilfilled radiator that we are using. I've been running it for a few hours to see if it is any use at half power ( 500 W) we normally run it at 1kW - but that costs 30p and hour now! easily £50 extra a month. But running it at 500 W doesn't seem to be lifting the room about 15 degrees 🙄it has been on for 3 hours. I am about to turn the heating on and see what difference an hour of central heating makes, but it really does seem like it will be cheaper than the oil radiator.

love the user name by the way!

I am going to try a heatedthrow though