infrared heaters

anyone have any input on the expense of running these heaters, we currently have a fuel oil furnace and its looking costly to heat the house this year, I’ve heard from people that really like these and they heat well but haven,t heard much on the expense of them. We have a 2800 sq ft split level so I doubt I,d heat the whole house, but could possibly take the chill out and leave the furnace set a lot lower

I live in an old house and use them for area heaters for the bedrooms. My cost of heating has gone down but we have also been working on reducing the heatloss with new doors and windows. I really like my heaters they are supposed to not dry out the air like forced air.

Check into a wood burner heater.

Had one in a house up in Princeton MN that was also a split level, I had

January heating bills of under $25 dollars, and that

included the hot water heater.

I know it helped me sell the house on my own, showing the

buyers my actual heating bills.

Jack

Nothing is free, they may help as you stated, keeping the thermostat turned down and heating individual rooms. Will they pay for themselves, probably not the first year. If you cannot get Natural Gas where you are located I would look into a high efficient LP furnace. Rebates will pay for over half of it, my father just switched from Oil to LP and the furnace cost $1,500 for a 95% efficient and he got $850 in a rebate.

It’s all about the cost of BTU’s, you have x amount of area to heat, that takes x amount of BTU’s.

Compare costs of what ever options you have and then decide.

Also if these are gas heaters and unvented you will be dumping lots of moisture into the room and stand the chance of becoming an oxygen sensor perchance the one on the heater fails.

Al

my folks use one to heat up their family room and keep the thermostat down. Does just fine, although their furnace is only 3 years old, they still notice a difference in the electric/gas bills. They have a mail ordered one, can’t recall the name, but they are more common in the stores now. I have an oil filled one, does ok, keeps the living room warmer. I have an old tired furnace.