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It will be cold soon. Any heater recommendations?

Scarpozzi

Scarpozzi

Lifer
My house has an apartment behind it with people renting space from me. There's currently only a small 220V heater back there for the whole place. I was thinking about getting a permanent PTAC installed (think motel6 through the wall heater/ac units) But that's going to be expensive--unless I can find one for around $500 I can't afford it.

Does anyone have any heater recommendations or ideas on how I can make sure they don't freeze? I want to find a heater that's going to be efficient and safe. (ie...won't burn my house down)
 
1) Checkout Home Depot or Lowes to see what they may have available.t

2) Contact a couple of local HVAC shops for advice/recommendations of heating unit.

You will need to determine if you wish to have gas or electric heat unit.
 
I want to definitely go with electric out there.... I do have gas hookups, but don't want to have to run a new line from the kitchenette to the living space.

Has anyone used one of these?

LINK
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I want to definitely go with electric out there.... I do have gas hookups, but don't want to have to run a new line from the kitchenette to the living space.

Has anyone used one of these?

LINK
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As some of the reviews indicate, look at the use for it.

If the walls are insulated and the space is not to large, it should work. You are not located in a harsh climate.

Those are intended to be a room/supplimental heater, not an apartment heater.

Some will come with thermostats. They are also available at your local Wal-Mart.

 
Originally posted by: Coquito
Set up a couple more rigs & do some DC. I haven't touched the thermostat in two years. 🙂
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QuoFT. I have a huge rig with a 650W Power supply and 6 80mm fans. It's always warm in my room!
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Originally posted by: Coquito
Set up a couple more rigs & do some DC. I haven't touched the thermostat in two years. 🙂
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QuoFT. I have a huge rig with a 650W Power supply and 6 80mm fans. It's always warm in my room!
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You probably have an external heat source for the overall building/unit.

 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Originally posted by: Coquito
Set up a couple more rigs & do some DC. I haven't touched the thermostat in two years. 🙂
Click to expand...
QuoFT. I have a huge rig with a 650W Power supply and 6 80mm fans. It's always warm in my room!
Click to expand...



Yep, I run 2 pc's and two CRT's in my apartment 24\7. Haven't turned the heat on yet and it went down to 1degree Celsius last night. How cold can it get in Tennessee?

EDIT: If the power bill ain't a big concern just install 2 baseboard heaters. Or run the stove all night.
 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Originally posted by: Coquito
Set up a couple more rigs & do some DC. I haven't touched the thermostat in two years. 🙂
Click to expand...
QuoFT. I have a huge rig with a 650W Power supply and 6 80mm fans. It's always warm in my room!
Click to expand...

You probably have an external heat source for the overall building/unit.
Click to expand...
Yep, we keep the heat pretty low (around 60 deg) so the pipes won't freeze. Being that it's a small apt and I only have one room to heat, the comp heat helps out a ton as a quick fix w/out adjusting the thermostat.

 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Originally posted by: Coquito
Set up a couple more rigs & do some DC. I haven't touched the thermostat in two years. 🙂
Click to expand...
QuoFT. I have a huge rig with a 650W Power supply and 6 80mm fans. It's always warm in my room!
Click to expand...

You probably have an external heat source for the overall building/unit.
Click to expand...


I lived in top floor apartment in college, and we put shrink-plastic over the windows and the heat from the stairway and apartments below kept us warm...we never had to run our heat. It was awesome.
 
It would probably be cheaper in the long run to get a decent permanent solution rather than try using electric space heaters. Those things draw a lot of current to keep running.
 
Those small heaters take lots of power...they flipped my circuit breaker when I had one on. I had teh heater on and made some ramen, so i decided to put it in the microwave. 1 minute into cooking....boom...power goes out. I had to go down stairs to flip the circuit breaker back and I saw a paper infront of the door saying : "Yes, RATS have been in this room, so please keep the door closed at all times". I hate rats (mice I can stand)...i was so scared to go down there.
 
I have natural gas heat, but thinking about getting an electric heater for this winter due to the high cost of natural gas. I'm thinking about a radiator style heater like in your link.

 
Hmmm...well, we've always been fans of good old fashioned fire places. It depends where you live, though. We live in the mountains...our last wood stove had something called a catalytic converter on it, which basically burns the smoke so that you get a lot more heat from your wood.

Currently we have a propane stove (which sucks...can't wait till we move and get back to a wood stove), but we warm our individual rooms with electric radiators.
 
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