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Working from Home Heating One Room

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  • 24-09-2020 10:33am
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    Feisar
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    My wife is working from home for the foreseeable. We have the box room setup as an office space. I noticed a drop in temp this morning and as winter comes in she'll need to have the heat on. Being a cold creature and all that.
    M question is should I get a dimplex type elec rad for the room or have the house being heated by a grant vortex oil boiler? I know there are a ball of variables but any thoughts generally?

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    Wearb
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    Are you saying that you already heat the house by a vortex? If so it shouldn't be too big of a job to put a rad in the office.

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    Feisar
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    Wearb wrote: »
    Are you saying that you already heat the house by a vortex? If so it shouldn't be too big of a job to put a rad in the office.

    House is heated by the vortex and there is a rad in the room. It's the economics of the house being heated when she's sitting in the one small room for most of the day.

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    Dial Hard
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    Feisar wrote: »
    House is heated by the vortex and there is a rad in the room. It's the economics of the house being heated when she's sitting in the one small room for most of the day.

    Can you not just switch the rest of the rads in the house off?

    Although the simpler option would seem to be just buy a plug-in oil-filled radiator, as you said.


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    Feisar
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    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Can you not just switch the rest of the rads in the house off?

    Although the simpler option would seem to be just buy a plug-in oil-filled radiator, as you said.

    I could but is the boiler not running at full tilt?

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    Dial Hard
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    Feisar wrote: »
    I could but is the boiler not running at full tilt?

    I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me can confirm but I would assume that the boiler will only work as hard as it needs to to fulfil the demand being placed on it at any given time. It's why switching your thermostat to 20C saves you money compared to having it at 22 or 25.


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    Wearb
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    Feisar wrote: »
    House is heated by the vortex and there is a rad in the room. It's the economics of the house being heated when she's sitting in the one small room for most of the day.
    If you are going to heat just one room and leave the rest of the house cold then I guess it would be much the same with both. The oil would be cheaper with produced heat, but there would be some greater losses delivering that heat to just one rad.

    Over 1 season (taking in the cost of the electric radiator) I'd be inclined to go with oil.

    Unless the box room is leaking heat like a sieve, it will not be expensive to heat anyway.

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    utyh2ikcq9z76b
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    Mod note <snip>
    Unhelpful comment.


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    DGOBS
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    I'd go with oil, and a good big jumper!!


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    Feisar
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    The oil it is, just thought it'd be an awful waste.

    Ah what did gazz say!?!

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