Okay, it is getting close to the cold part of Winter in California, and like last year I have to be concerned with heating my apartment. Last year, I purchased two cheapie ($25.00ea) Holmes space heaters from Target:
This heater is a heating element heater which works just like your electric stove does, or perhaps your electric blanket. It uses resistance to create heat in heating elements which then radiate heat. It works, but is highly energy inefficient. Running those little space heaters literally TRIPLED my electric bills for the Winter months. So, this year I decided to search for a lower cost alternative. I bought myself some men's onesie footed pajamas (I chose the USMC design ) this is not me, but this is the size I got and the jammies:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095UYHRS/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
COMFY AS HELL! When I first put them on, I did not want to take them off. You go commando underneath these, and you dont even need blankets on your bed. You can sleep on top and be perfectly toasty in these. The second thing I did was to buy a Redcore Concept R1 Infrared Heater from Best Buy:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/r1-infrared-room-heater/1775041.p?
id=1219063203990&skuId=1775041&st=infrared%20heater&cp=1&lp=1
Here it is in my living room:
Now THIS is what I call technology! The infrared heater does not heat the air or use heating elements, it uses a tube which emits infrared heat waves which work more like a microwave than a conventional space heater. The entire enclosure is made of plastic because it does not get hot. This little guy easily heats 1000sqft of room, and does it even if the windows or door is open! No heat is lost by escaping warm air. Speaking of which, last year those little space heaters heating up the air burned off all the moisture in the air and killed ALL of my houseplants during the Winter. My two indoor palm trees were literally cooked and dried by them. I would wake up with dry mouth and dry throat from breathing in the heated air.
Infrared heaters do not heat the air, they do not remove moisture from the air, and they only heat objects they touch (the denser, the more they are heated). I absolutely LOVE this thing. The thermostat on this shows the ambient temperature (actual), and the thing is dead on accurate when shutting off. But the best thing of all is that it takes only a fraction of what it takes to produce this heat using the cheap radiant heat space heaters I bought last year. Plus, it has a remote!
VERY happy with this purchase. Cost of heater was $149.00 plus tax bringing it to about $163.00 at Best Buy. My cats already love it as much as I do! The initial expense of this heater will be recouped in the first two months of use.
EDIT: My apartment has a gas fired wall heater and I refuse to have natural gas coming into my environment as I know somebody who was suffocated by a leak and died. My kitchen is all electric, so the only gas using unit would have been my heater. This is why I went with the infrared heater. Just sayin...
This heater is a heating element heater which works just like your electric stove does, or perhaps your electric blanket. It uses resistance to create heat in heating elements which then radiate heat. It works, but is highly energy inefficient. Running those little space heaters literally TRIPLED my electric bills for the Winter months. So, this year I decided to search for a lower cost alternative. I bought myself some men's onesie footed pajamas (I chose the USMC design ) this is not me, but this is the size I got and the jammies:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095UYHRS/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
COMFY AS HELL! When I first put them on, I did not want to take them off. You go commando underneath these, and you dont even need blankets on your bed. You can sleep on top and be perfectly toasty in these. The second thing I did was to buy a Redcore Concept R1 Infrared Heater from Best Buy:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/r1-infrared-room-heater/1775041.p?
id=1219063203990&skuId=1775041&st=infrared%20heater&cp=1&lp=1
Here it is in my living room:
Now THIS is what I call technology! The infrared heater does not heat the air or use heating elements, it uses a tube which emits infrared heat waves which work more like a microwave than a conventional space heater. The entire enclosure is made of plastic because it does not get hot. This little guy easily heats 1000sqft of room, and does it even if the windows or door is open! No heat is lost by escaping warm air. Speaking of which, last year those little space heaters heating up the air burned off all the moisture in the air and killed ALL of my houseplants during the Winter. My two indoor palm trees were literally cooked and dried by them. I would wake up with dry mouth and dry throat from breathing in the heated air.
Infrared heaters do not heat the air, they do not remove moisture from the air, and they only heat objects they touch (the denser, the more they are heated). I absolutely LOVE this thing. The thermostat on this shows the ambient temperature (actual), and the thing is dead on accurate when shutting off. But the best thing of all is that it takes only a fraction of what it takes to produce this heat using the cheap radiant heat space heaters I bought last year. Plus, it has a remote!
VERY happy with this purchase. Cost of heater was $149.00 plus tax bringing it to about $163.00 at Best Buy. My cats already love it as much as I do! The initial expense of this heater will be recouped in the first two months of use.
EDIT: My apartment has a gas fired wall heater and I refuse to have natural gas coming into my environment as I know somebody who was suffocated by a leak and died. My kitchen is all electric, so the only gas using unit would have been my heater. This is why I went with the infrared heater. Just sayin...
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