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Q: Does anyone leave their Chinese made electric heaters on when they are not in the house?
I don't. So I come home to a cold house and my little fan heaters never quite manage to get the apartment cosy.
Anyone here leave them switched on when they are out?
It's not wise to leave heaters on when you are not at home. I just don't trust the quality at all. These small fan heaters are meant for spot heating only and can never heat up the whole house. It's better to get air conditions installed.
ScotsAlan:
Interesting. I leave the aircon on in the summer if I am just popping out for an hour.
Would you leave heating aircon on if you pop out?
louischuahm:
Nope, the only thing that's turned on is the fridge. Everything else is turned off. Thing is, in the summer, when you turn on the air conditioner, it cools quickly because you can feel the few degrees difference immediately, but in winter, even if the mercury rises a couple of notches it's still bloody damned cold.
Scandinavian:
it is a misconception that you benefit from leaving a heating or cooling device on if you go out, the theory being that the device would not need to work as hard to lover or raise the temperature when you come back. But in most cases if the devices are dimensioned correctly then it should have the capacity to bring a room to a comfortable temperature in a short while.
Leaving it on is just fucking up the planet.
CharlieB:
Ok, I may be naive, but if I would leave the heater on while I am sleeping and it fails I could die. If I leave it on when I am away and it fails, an apartment owned by someone else might burn. If I had to choose between the two.....
I usually leave mine on to dry the clothes.. It should be fine.
I use aircon during the day and use a oil filled electric heater in the bedroom at night there quite, never leave them on when I'm not home.
I switch everything off when I go out, no matter how short. Though yesterday I did leave the electric blanket at half strength when I did some quick evening shopping. If I have trouble with the cold here, I just remind myself that it's better than the summer heat: Everybody eating spicy with no drinks, sweat dripping down my hair and neck, having some kind of throat infection which gets worse by drinking cold drinks, and people keeping airconditioning switched off for fear of 'bad air' and catching a cold.
Anyway, there's no central heating here, so we're screwed in winter. And those electric fires just barbecue my shins and roast the newness out of clothing. The best ways to keep warm, that I found:
(1) Wear thick clothes, including thermal underwear and double pants and jumpers.
(2) use the electric blanket. You can put it on a chair if needed; I just sit on the bed for warmth.
(3) don't do stupid stuff like handwashing clothes in freezing water. conserve your body heat.
Like ironman, I leave my radiator heater on to dry clothes, otherwise I must wait three or four days for cold, dry clothes. I leave it on at about 50% of the maximum setting.
It is pointless to leave it on, our apartment is leaking so much heat that the heaters have to struggle to raise the indoor temperature. On the other hand, with the heaters we have, we can quickly get one room to a comfortable temperature, but as soon as they are switched off, the temperature drops to approximately outdoors temperature in a matter of minutes.
DrMonkey:
Amen to that. The concept underlined in the question is a thermal absurdity, courtesy of Chinese insulation standard. It's not like China got an energy efficiency problem, with the pollution that goes with it...
ScotsAlan:
My little fan heater can get the bedroom to "tepid", but it takes about 4 hours.
If I switch it off for half an hour the temperature plummets to " too cold".
The mind boggles at how much energy is being wasted here because of the construction technology.
"Efficiency" sorry, I cannot find a word that comes even close to that in the Chinese dictionary.
I'm not sure I'd leave an electric heater on in any country when I;m not there. Who needs a warm apartment when they aren't it. When you get home just turn it on again, and then throw on some more clothes until the heat kicks in. Don't waste electricity, invest in some wool!
