Oil Filled Radiator Heaters Anyone have them?

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I'm looking at buying a oil Filled Radiator Heater for our bedroom.

Seems pointless keep putting the heating on just to warm the bedroom up early in the morning.

I was wondering if anyone uses them and what do they think of them and also if anyone knows how much they cost to run per hour?


Thanks.
 
They work quite well, had one last winter when the radiator in my room packed up.
I think they are 3kw hour, so just multiply how long they are on for, by the kW hour consumption by the cost per kW hour like 9p?

e.g. 3kW radiator on for 4 hours at 9p/kWh = £1.08 per day
 
used to have some years ago, still around somewhere, kick off a lot of heat, cheaper than a space heater if I remember rightly, but not sure how much they cost overall to run, but as long as it's not a massive room, you could cut the cost by just having it on an hour or so till the room's warm enough and turn it off, or perhaps burn some candles? usually get a bag of 200 tealites for a few quid, and they kick off a fair bit of heat and ambience :p
 
Had one years ago as well. Not sure how much it was to run but not as expensive as gas driven heating. Cats loved it too.

Something totally different. Depending how self sufficient you feel, also look at wood burning boilers/backboilers for central heating. Initial outlay is rather expensive (about a grand) but you make the money back in 1-2 years and from then on you're saving big bucks every month. Our gasbill went from something like £350 a winter to just under £40 and total money spent on gas for the year from around £800 to £130.

Pro's : Save quite a bit of money

Con's : Gotta keep stacking it with wood and cleaning it out is a pain in the rear.
 
Oil filled radiators are not on all the time, once the oil comes up to the right temperature the heating element kicks out until the thermostat tells it to kick back in. So you might have it on for 4 hours but it may only using energy for 2 of them hours.
 
Would the cost of buying and then running the radiator not outweigh the cost to put the heating on for an hour in the morning anyway? Especially as its only for winter?
 
Sukh said:
They work quite well, had one last winter when the radiator in my room packed up.
I think they are 3kw hour, so just multiply how long they are on for, by the kW hour consumption by the cost per kW hour like 9p?

e.g. 3kW radiator on for 4 hours at 9p/kWh = £1.08 per day
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Thanks for the info.

Think it was a 2000W Oil Filled Radiator Heater with Thermostatic Control we were looking at.

I don't think it helps in the bedroom as we have wooden floor in it should have had carpet but to late now!
 
Bennie-Mac said:
Would the cost of buying and then running the radiator not outweigh the cost to put the heating on for an hour in the morning anyway? Especially as its only for winter?
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Its just really for our bedroom plus we will have a baby in there soon with us ( Jan) so we want to keep the room warm at night without the whole house during night time.
 
I found the panel heaters to be much better... The oil heater I had hardly gave off any heat at all. :(
 
Ideal for single room heating. I use one to heat the spider room and it does the job perfectly. No idea on the consumption to be honest but it's a lot more efficient than running a load of heat mats and halogen bulbs which is what I used to use.
 
I bought this one last week.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produ...category_root|Home+and+furniture|14417894.htm They also do a bigger 800W one for a fiver more.

I done a search for oil heaters on here and someone recommended it a while back. (post 33 in this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17959979&highlight=bambino&page=1)

Does the job fine. The only pain was that it says in the instructions that you have to turn it on full blast for 8 hours in a ventilated room to get rid of the "new odour". I took mine to work and done it there (for about 5 hours). It does tend to "click" when its on so if you're a light sleeper that may disturb you.

Its quite small but heats up my bedroom more than adequately. Although ive only used it a couple of times in the past week or so and its not been THAT cold recently.

EDIT: If the link is not allowed and removed search for De'Longhi Bambino at your local catalogue shop.
 
i borrowed a 2kW oil radiator-heater from my landlady because my room's permanently cold. it kicks out BIBLICAL amounts of heat.
 
Anybody ever heard of oil-filled radiators exploding? At high temps it must raise the pressure inside the unit a fair bit.
 
Nossmayo said:
It does tend to "click" when its on so if you're a light sleeper that may disturb you.
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Seriously, I could never buy one for this reason alone. Slept round my mates next to one one night even after a few beers (very drunk and hence tired) and it still kept me up all night with the clicking.
 
Matrix said:
Really I've heard there pretty cheap to run ?


Thanks for everyone's info and input on this .
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Compared to other electric heating, they are pretty good. Panel heaters do nothing, storage heaters are rubbish.

Convectors burn the air and use a lot of leccy, heating oil is pretty decent as far as my limited knowledge goes. Have a look on the boxes for the different heaters for how many units each one uses.

I had a 2.5kw one and it kicks out a decent amount of heat. You can heat a conservatory with one.
 
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