These mini plug in wall heaters...

[Carvalho Diablo]

Intrigued, does anyone have one?

 

Any good?

[VladimirIlyich]

What do they look like?

[Carvalho Diablo]

48 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

What do they look like?

Daewoo HEA1710 500W Plug In Powerful Mini Heater with LED Display and Digital Thermostat, 2 Fan Speed Settings and Adjustable Timer, Indicator Light and Overheat Protection- White https://amzn.eu/d/fCgwbaK

[Captain Howdy]

I got one and wasn’t impressed, could barely feel any heat from it at all, I’d avoid if I were you. I bought one of those halogen heaters which has proved useful. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Bought one but we don’t use it, unimpressed too.

[John102]

I bought an old school electric heater. Does the job quite well and only costs £300 a month on the leccy.

[Bob]

The plug in things can’t be any good other than in very small spaces where a little bit of localised heat would be noticeable.

 

500W isn’t a lot of heat, and it can only have a very small fan in there given it’s size, so it can’t throw the heat out to very far. 
 

I’d expect in most scenarios it would make negligible impact.

 

On cold days lately I’ve been using my old plug in heater to add heat into my little box room office. Chuck it on for 10-15 minutes, get a bit of a boost and then knock it off again until I am noticeably cold again.

[Mook]

1 hour ago, Captain Howdy said:

I got one and wasn’t impressed, could barely feel any heat from it at all, I’d avoid if I were you. I bought one of those halogen heaters which has proved useful. 

 

I got one of the halogen heaters for £20 off Ebay and it heats my living room fine.

[manwiththestick]

Just before Christmas our boiler died and for two weeks we were without heating and hot water which was a nightmare.

 

During this time week had a couple of basic convector heaters which did the job for whatever room you were in but the MiL brought us one of these plug in things (I did see them in B&M for about 15 quid) and said to me I could use it to heat up my box room/office whilst I was working.

 

May aswell as just struck a match and got warm of that for all the good it done. The wife noticed I wasn't using it and said I was ungrateful as her mam had bought it for us. I said I wasn't ungrateful but I didn't ask for it and I'd rather put on an extra layer than having the plug-in thing chonging on the leccy and giving off little or no extra heat.

[Welsh]

They are crap.

 

My Mum bought one and gave it to me to try the other day. They don't produce much heat and you need to be in sitting directly in front of it to feel anything)

 

Works out to being about £0.17p per hour for nothing.

 

Save your money.

[VladimirIlyich]

The housing has given us 4 of those small fan heaters for free as our boiler kept conking out before the fitted our new boiler.

[Captain Turdseye]

Our living room has been freezing this winter after we replaced the carpet with tile flooring. I went to Argos with the intention of buying a fan heater, a bigger one, but they had none in store. Ended up getting a little radiator type one for £30. It only takes five minutes to have the living room toasty as fuck. 

[Bob]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Our living room has been freezing this winter after we replaced the carpet with tile flooring. I went to Argos with the intention of buying a fan heater, a bigger one, but they had none in store. Ended up getting a little radiator type one for £30. It only takes five minutes to have the living room toasty as fuck. 

And a rug?

[Captain Turdseye]

7 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

And a rug?

Got a couple of rugs. Makes no difference. She’s already moaning that we should rip it all up and get a carpet again. 

[Harry's Lad]

6 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Got a couple of rugs. Makes no difference. She’s already moaning that we should rip it all up and get a carpet again. 

My Mrs was talking about getting porcelain tiles throughout the downstairs a couple of years back but it's gone quiet on that front thank fuck.

 

It was pie in the sky anyway, the cost alone I imagine to be stupidly expensive and I had to use that money to pay for my stairlift anyway, but the cost of keeping the place warm in winter with them wouldn't have crossed her mind.

[sir roger]

Got one of those oil-filled ones for about £50, not bad to warm the place up, but a bit dear to leave on for too long. We are in the middle of a renovation and have no kitchen at present, so we tend to heat the bedroom and sit up in bed to keep costs down.

[Strontium]

I also have an electric oil heater, which is fine for heating one room, but with the cost of electricity being what it is, I'm not convinced it's any cheaper than the gas central heating.

[Gnasher]

I was thinking of buying one of these things but no disrespect to other posters but sorry I think I'll wait to hear the opinions of the two energy big boys, Dockers and Rico.

 

It'll start with three pages of sparing over technical jargon and the effects these things have on  smart meters, move onto calling each other cunts for the cars they drove twenty years ago then quickly decend into extreme threats of violence involving smashing each others skulls in with a Christmas stocking full of billiard balls. 

 

Only then do B&M bargains get my money.

[Captain Howdy]

4 hours ago, Strontium said:

I also have an electric oil heater, which is fine for heating one room, but with the cost of electricity being what it is, I'm not convinced it's any cheaper than the gas central heating.

I have a four bedroom house with 6 adults living in it. Central heating is fucking eye wateringly expensive, completely out of the question. Something has gone horribly wrong in that industry and it’s not all down to Ukraine, that of course is a wonderful excuse for them.

[Lee909]

I bought 2 for work during that cold snap. Proved useful and seeing as it wasn't my electric I didn't really care of the cost