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Q: "The Big Chill"
No..Not the 1983 American film...
It's what I"m feeling right now sitting in my non-insulated concrete apartment- I've managed to seal all the windows but still feels like I"m stuck in a meat freezer.
-Can anyone recommend a good and affordable space heater?
I never bought heater. If your area got Guomei or SuNing, 2 biggest Chinese chain store for electronic products.
It's very easy to find one very cheap and funtion well in the store.
To maintain a consistent ambient temperature in your apartment (or at least in your room), I would recommend one of those oil-based electric radiators with temperature control. They are far, far more energy "green" and less expensive than the cheaper oscillating electric heater fans. Additionally, you run far less danger of a fire with one of these radiators. When it hits to the given temperature and when its temperature guage determine what the ambient room temperature is, it shuts off until the temperature drops, etc., etc. They do not generate heat as quickly as the oscillating coil-type heaters, but once they do heat the room, they maintain it a constant temperature. Just a tad bit more expensive than the others.
Shining_brow:
Definitely my recommendation as well!!! They are relatively cheap (300-500RMB), and keep a nice ambient warmth in the area, and are fairly energy conservative - because you don't use a fan to blast the heat everywhere! Of course, you do want to be in a fairly enclosed space - ie, not lounge, kitchen, dining, plus hallway type situation. In a spacious bedroom, they're fantastic! I was walking around in shorts and t-shirt while it was snowing outside! As 981 said, though, you don't thaw out quickly with these, unless you sit on them. But, in the longer term, much better than the other directed heat ones, cos the whole room gets warm, not just in front of the machine.
what is the price of a reverse cycle air conditioner?
I know in dosnt get as cold in Aus as Shenzhen but I find ours is cheap to run and widow mounted of course
I bought one AC unit last summer, 18,000 BTU, heating / cooling cyckes, split type. With installation it was 3100 Rmb.
Right now, outside is 5 C, inside my apartment is 15.4 C. I do not run the AC, but have instead an electric blanket on my bed. It sure allows me to sleep very warm, and do save a lot of $ on electrical usage, running an electric heater could be very expensive, even here.
Close window drapes to preserve heat, make sure there are no cracks or holes on concrete walls (I placed empty Coke plastic bottles on holes to allow AC tubing to come thru), and so far I have no need to use heaters yet.
You would think that as modern that China says it is it would have central heating, insulation, vaper barriers, and a big long list of other things that have made life more comfortable in the west for the past 5 years or so.
Having these thing would make heating and cooling your home more effective and a lot cheaper. Because of thi China consumes twice as much energy then it needs to. The homes are very unhealthy here as they are either to hot or too cold and when it heats up out side the meldow grows inside.
Nothing in China is done right.
Re the comments on electric blankets, thank you but no thank you. Doctors in the West are only now starting to disparate a rise cases in cases of leucemia, etc., in persons who relied heavily upon electric blankets. It surely does not good for the human body to have all that electric current pulsing around and through it. Additionally, fires from electric blanket are still all too common and deadly. Truly thank you but no thank you.
I would purchase either a full cycle ac / heater unit or the oil-based radiator heater that we have been discussing here.
