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i need a heater for my room because it is cold. i have just bought one but its not very good. what is your heater?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

don't you remember the delonghi[?] advert w/ the eskimo?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 December 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

hey the heatings just come back on!

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 20 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, be a man, build a fire. I'm sure you've got something what might burn lying around.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Right now, for me, tis called "tossing on loads of blankets". But, yup, DeLonghi makes good ones. Hurry and get one before you have to crack the ice that's formed in your sink...

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

geeta, where are you living? Is this a rented room? You may be able to go to a regulatory agency about this.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 20 December 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

geeta lives in new york where heating is provided for free by LAW!!

(check the by-line, rockist)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

geeta lives in new york where heating is provided for free by LAW!!

You mean, her landlord actually pays attention to a little thing like the law? An honest one, and a rarity, yo!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

yup. the prob in my building is there is actually too much heat -- i hafta keep windows open at night sometimes so that it will not get too too warm. good luck gareth!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 20 December 2002 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth when i was in Scotland everyone had one of those Calorgas things that they call it a "fire", which i always thought was kinda cute, almost as cute as the gas guy who would come around with a new tank; in fact if you're lacking cuteness in your life i'd deffo spring for the calorgas if your travel-depleted budget can swing it... one bar... two bars..... THREE, THREE BARS!! HA ho ho ha ha haaaaaaaa (said in transylvanian accent)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 December 2002 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the strange thing is that i can totally visualize tracer always speaking in a transylvanian accent

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 20 December 2002 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a radiator and a Belling electric heater, it's old school.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Calorgas canistors are a bitch to move about, I had a whole summer of shifting those about, and that's pretty hard work for someone with no muscles.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 December 2002 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i would recommend seeing the movie 'heater' it is decent

― ron (ron), Saturday, 21 December 2002 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

i bought a space heater from target because i am afraid of my apartment's ancient radiator that has to have its pilot lit with a match. new heater has been in my home one day and has already blown out two surge protectors.

help?

― get bent, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps your surge protectors... suck?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

wow, hostile

― get bent, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

space heaters are probably more dangerous than your radiator...

― max, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

new space heaters aren't really dangerous. they do use a ton of power though...

sorry that was unhelpful.

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

yeah they're mostly dangerous if you fall asleep with them on. (i don't.)

― get bent, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i have a heater similar to this one:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31LfqYJVsBL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
and i was wondering approx how much they cost in electricity if they're on for a full hour?

― NI, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

Probably a dime. Thanks for the Q. Stay warm out there!

― Kerm, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

LOL you win award for interntfuney !

anyho a bit of sleuthing and i've discovered it's around 50p, which is fuck all really.

― NI, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)

i used to leave one of these things on all night now and then. me mam didn't like that.

― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

When I was a kid, I had an irrational terror of this type of electric fire:

http://www.save-energy-uk.co.uk/images/old-electric.jpg

(I seem to remember discussing this somewhere else around here, but fuck knows where.)

It was all Jimmy Savile's fault. No, really: he fronted a terrifying little series of extended PIF-tyle programmes in the early 1980s called Play It Safe, and I remember horrific scenes of a wee girl who'd fallen backwards on to one of these things (with the guard off) and ... gaaah.

Anyway: I've always been under the impression that those little electric fan heater things eat electricity and aren't really a cost-efficient idea for doing anything other than giving your feet a quick blast of hot air.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

PIF-style, that should be. Although PIF-tyle is rather good.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

anyho a bit of sleuthing and i've discovered it's around 50p, which is fuck all really.

Good grief. How much is a unit these days? I would have said more like 10-20p. (1 or 2kw heater)

We just got a big electricity bill. My housemate, who can't add up or take away, never mind change a lightbulb is convinced this is because I leave my laptop on over night and not due to the fact that two months ago I turned the (electric) heating on. Retard.

― caek, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

doesn't it have a wattage printed on it? and your electricity bill probably quotes a price per watt/hour. multiply the two together.

the one at work says 2400W (which is it on high so an upper limit). edf page (eventually) tells me about 20p per kwh so, yes, 50p tops.

but don't do what they did at work - had it (them, we had 7) on full until it got too hot and then opened the windows to cool it down again.

― koogs, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

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