Best Space Heaters

Confused about how to find the best space heater for you?

The First Question to Ask
Do you want a portable space heater or one that is permanently affixed to the area being heated?

The Best Space Heaters that are Permanently Affixed
There are two types of permanently attached heaters: electric and fuel burning (natural gas, propane, or wood).

Electric heaters that are permanently attached are hard-wired to a building's wiring.  These are the large, commercial heaters you see hanging from the ceiling in garages, factories, and large storage areas.  They produce a lot of heat, but they are not designed for home use.

The best space heaters that are permanently affixed are natural gas heaters.

Natural gas heaters have four advantages:

• there is less risk of fire than with kerosene heaters and wood-burning stoves
• more convenient to use because you don't have to refill them with fuel
• ordorless
• cheap to operate - natual gas is a very inexpensive fuel

But natural gas heaters do have two disadvantages:

• they must be installed by an HVAC professional
• they cost 2 - 4 times more to buy than electric and kerosene heaters

The Best Space Heaters that are Portable
Most people choose one of the small electric heaters as the best space heater for them simply because they want to easily move it from one room to another.

There are two types of portable heaters - kerosene and electric.

There are only two good reasons to buy a fuel-burning portable heater instead of an electric one.  The first reason is that the heate will be used during power outages when an electric heater would be useless.  The other reason is that the area you intend to heat is too big for a portable electric heater - kerosene heaters produce a lot more heat than electric models and are often a good choice to heat large areas.

If neither of these reasons for not choosing electric exist, then the best space heaters for people who want to carry their heater from room to room are electric heaters.  Electric heaters have some big advantages over kerosene heaters:

• easier to move and set up
• ordorless
• don't have to be refilled
• less risk of fire because there is no open flame
• absolutely no risk of  carbon monoxide poisoning   

  

space heaters? (Answers: 6) (Comments: 0)

I need answers only from those who have had to use space heaters please so the answers will be first hand from people who have used them. My house has no heat right now because my furnace went out Hopefully it will be fixed on the first but that is besides the point. Right now I have to use a space heater to heat up my house. I live in a small mobile home so both my living room and kitchen can heat up with only one heater. My living room is about 12 by 16 and kitchen about 12 by 12. I want to know if my electric will be going up sky high because I have my heater running from about 1am until 4pm when I leave for work and unplug it. Im on a budget plan on my electric meaning I pay the same amount each month until settlement month in may. I live in southeast Michigan. I heard alot of people say that my bill will be way up there, some say it may go up but not by much as the newer models are no different than using an airconditioner, some say I wont even notice a difference. Help

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Space Heaters? (Answers: 1) (Comments: 0)

I have tried SO many space heaters: - Ceramic Tower - Electric Stove/Fireplace - Oil-Filled Radiator - Stanley Ceramic Heater/Blower - Honeywell Utility Heater - Radiant Light Heater - and NOW a micathermic heater nothing is working! I'm trying to supplement my electric baseboard heat, which heats the entire common area of my apartment, by trying to heat only the area that i'm sitting in.... what should I do?? What else should I try?

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What are the space heaters of the past that get burning hot and blow 5 feet out? (Answers: 1) (Comments: 0)

I am sick and tired of all of these pathetic excuses for space heaters that have hit the market in this last decade. Little things that get luke warm and blow out air 3, maybe 4 inches tops out of the unit. Where can I find one of the old fashion monsters that they quick making because of kids burning themselves on them, fires caused by cloth around them or by shoddy electrical wiring?

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