Help, its so cold!

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My heating is not working at the moment and it looks like ill have to get a new boiler installed and the system power flushed :'(
In the meantime I need a way of heating the house as I cant have my little girl freezing to death. I was going to pop out in a bit and get a couple of heaters. I have been looking at oil filled rads and convector heaters. Anyone suggest which would be best? Ideally the cheapest to run too. Im leaning towards the convector heaters as there cheaper to buy and much easier to move around the house.
Any suggestions or advice would be great.
Thanks.
 
Hi,

I would say an oil filled radiator or two would do you nicely.
The De'Longhi ones are really good, I have one to heat a summerhouse....does the job great.

Google for the best price....Argos sell them.

Mike.
 
I have 2 Delongi Dragon's (oil filed), fitted with 'climate control' as my central heating. One in the kitchen the other in the doorway between my living/bedroom and the hallway. keeps the place very very very warm if i want it, but found it cheaper then storage heaters, and dead quiet.
 
Sorry to hear that, hope you keep yourselves wrapped up warm. Don talk about De'Longhi heaters though. I managed to get a few days work in an electical warehouse leading up to Christmas, yesterday two of us unloaded 1500 of them off an articulated lorry by hand, wouldnt have been so bad if they were boxed up in multiples of three or four :lol:
 
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taz said:
I sympathise with you.
We were without electricity for just 24hours last Friday (when it snowed) and it is no joke.
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Sorry to hear that, but i hear that comment pretty much every working day, personally i am gear'd up for lose of mains power, but of recent years the supply has generally be pretty reliable (unless feed by overheads) that 90% of folk simple forget or take for granted just how reliant we are on electricity these days.

I was the same before doing my current job.
 
Lasagne said:
Wouldn't it be cheaper for you to hire some heaters until you get your boiler fixed ?
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You say that, but they come in handy!

Our boiler went last year I think and my 'rents bought some electric heaters to keep us warm.

Now we use one in the conservatory for when guests stay over or we go on the Wii, and we have one spare for emergencies
 
oil heaters rock, they're a standard part of our heating as well as the central heating the rayburn and the rayburn cooling loop, what tis a big house :D

Use them in the flat which is night storage to keep the temp up during the day and take up any slack
 
I would agree with the oil-filled radiators. I've been in my flat for just over a year, and it's just as cold this year as it was last year. I had an oil-filled radiator last year, which did the trick, but I've given it to my parents for their chilly kitchen. This year I'm freezing my nuts off!

I've had the electric fire on full blast for about nine hours now, and I'm still sat shivering in a jumper and my slippers! We don't have a gas installation. Brrrr. I have a single night storage heater too, which warms up the hallway. Great, if you want to sit in the hallway all day.

Someone come and cuddle me. :D
 
Thanks for all the comments.
I managed to borrow an oil heater last night. It was ok, much better than nothing. But I think it needed to be bigger as it never really warmed up the room as much as id like.
I now have a fan heater also to give the odd blast to warm the room more when needed.
I think ill leave my little girl at my mums tonight if poss.
The other annoying thing is some muppet has cut the electric supply to the immersion heater on the hot water tank so there is no way of getting hot water. Must have been the owner before I moved in. I can't understand why they would have done it.
 
Maybe it was faulty?
 
Maybe mate, i have found another larger one I can borrow so will try that tonight.
 
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