Cheapest way to heat one room during day???

[janmoomoo]

I am working from home at the mo.

Put heating on all day but turn off the radiators in all the other rooms (PITA)? Oil filled electric radiator? Probably not a fan heater? Any ideas what is cheapest?

I'd guess the oil-filled radiator - certainly its effective, as I used to do this and it was nice and cosy.

Oh, should have said, ours has a thermostat so it cuts in and out and not on all the time.

More clothes, a blanket over your knees and a hot water bottle.

(It's what I do - I share your cold!)

I tend to turn radiators off in rooms I'm not in during the day (i.e. bedrooms, dining room etc).

Mmm - oil-filled radiators are surprisingly expensive. I'd guess that cheapest is two hot-water bottle, a blanket, and wrist-warmers, followed by turning the radiator on in one room and off in all the others. A good long-term solution is to have a more sophisticated central heating controller, like we have, where you can control each room's temperature at any time of day, but that costs a lot up front.

Thanks all. Agree about hot water bottles (already wear thermals and dressed like the michelin man). But it feels so wrong to spend the day with hot water bottles and blankets when you are trying to work!!

I thought the oil filled radiators would be good but someone else told me they are expensive.