Worba wrote:
That's baloney - the whole point of a space heater is to restrict heating just to one small area. I mean for a given square foot of space, a space heater is no more efficient than any other kind (although it's certainly no worse either), but the idea obviously is that with a space heater you're just heating like a 5-10' radius, rather than every room on the floor.
If your stepdad's so certain of his facts, I would suggest you average say the last 3 months of heating bills (during which time you haven't run the space heater), and agree to pay him the difference if it goes above that due to your using the space heater in your room.
nono, the heater i was talking about that i call a space heater (not the one i bought, i call that a mini heater) is large and exposed, i have too much clutter in my room and too much furniture. I have the cats litterbox, scratching post, food and water bowls, a double bed, a desk with chair, two small dressers, tamika's cage, a tv, and a hope chest. the room hardly spans 8 feet in width and about 15 feet in length so theres hardly any walking space to put a heater the size of the one that i was mentioning. the one i bought is only a foot tall and a foot wide.
And yes its absolutely retarded that he thinks my little heater which he admits is an amazingly powerful heater is going to rake up the bills and burn the whole apartment down. for gods sake im not going to leave it on 24/7. im not even going to leave it plugged in when its not in use. i dont want the cat accidently switching it on. it has a pressure point on the bottom too and automatically shuts off if its lifted up and wont turn back on until the pressure point is pressed down again.
my bf's room has never been warmer at night until he got his. its a blessing to over there since they dont have heat registers but rather one single dial that controls the entire house tempature. mom always keeps it turned off and they also live on the first floor, above their underground so its always frigid cold at night or during the winter. specially cause they only have carpets in the bedrooms. while we do have dials in each room for our heat registers, i figured it'd be less expensive to use a small heater rather then the big large one built into the wall but he wont let me plug it in so all i can do is go ho-hum. >.>