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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 06:31 PM
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Default Cheapest heat..... electric heater or Portable gas fire

as title, for my office which is only small, a oil filled radiator or fan heater or alike or a portable gas heater? Which is cheaper?
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 07:39 PM
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i mean running cost, not purchasing...
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 07:40 PM
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jumper?
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 07:41 PM
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oil filled rad danny, calor gas stink and make condensation and if the gas bottle runs out your cold, get the biggest oil filled rad yo can, there thermostatic and you don't have to run it flat out, I use 1 in my living room when its not quite cold enough to have the central heating on

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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 07:53 PM
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got a oil filled rad and a calor gas heater..... the gas does stink i must admit, but always thought any electric heater would be expensive to run.
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 08:14 PM
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A heat pump air conditioner would be my choice.
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 08:18 PM
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Most of the heaters have a cost per hour in the info! Oil filled are cheapest but typically produce the less heat. I think the cheapest but most efficient are the infa red ones, but it's a very direct heat!!
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 09:14 PM
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wood burners are good if you have any way of putting one in, and if you live somewhere thats got a few trees you can borrow!!!!
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Old Oct 12, 2010 | 12:51 AM
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If your using an electric fire you might aswell burn £10 notes. The oil filled rad is the way forward. That calor gas fires are fuckin dangerous. I'm sure they tried to ban em a few years back
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