Halogen heaters seem to be very reasonable to run Summer and they are quite effective too.

Fan heaters are expensive to run, so I'd avoid them if you can.

Yes i agree , electric heaters are very expensive to run and would avoid them if possible x

Do all halogens have those horrible bright lights? Or can you get them without?

No, thats the down side for me, they can be very bright. 

Yeah I know the ones, we used to have one in the staff room; it wasn't warm enough and the light gave me a headache

Cheaper to run, Summer but you may need to wear shades  

Lol I suppose we could add it to our uniform..

Although the light from the halogen heaters is bright I find that if I just angle them away from direct vision they work fine, they heat up a small room in no time at a very economic cost and no replacement canisters either.

 

Is this thread a spin-off of the Buddies

It looks that way, Squiggle.

have one of these at work

 

http://www.argos.ie/static/Pro...chtext%3EHEATERS.htm

 

throws out some heat, you can smell the oil at the start but its no way as bad as the stink from gas heaters.

Fan heaters are expensive to run but in their defence, they do chuck out heat and move it around a room pretty efficiently.  Can be noisy bleeders too.

Leccy heaters  cost a bomb. I know because we had them before we got gas central heating installed.

Moonbeams, how do those oil heaters get refilled..? I wonder what they cost? The gas heater at work is letting off a bad stink that makes myself and several customers think its leaking it worries me, I got my boss to look into it and a chap is coming to investigate

We had ceramic heaters at one point. They were great. Mil's heating went funny though, so we gave them to her 'cos they had very simple controls.

Back to the fan heater, but we don't need to use it very often,

the ceramic ones are brilliant! 

I'll look into ceramic ones too then thank you

Yah  can get your Leccy "fixed" if you know a "man". I don't because I know I'd be the one that got caught.I know others  that have,,,

I used to go out with a lad who's parents did that!

erm...i dunno that you have to refil them. have ours four years and it's never been refilled. myabe that's why it doesn't smell anymore

My mother used to tell us to leave a cup of water ontop of the flo gas heaters.