i just moved into an apartment end of summer, apartment included a big gas heater in the living wrong so it will take alot of gas to heat a smaller 2 bedroom apartment.
sooo would it be cheaper to use as much gas to heat my apartment or i have 3 spaces heaters and run them in different rooms for heat?
Unknown… maybe fans to circulate the heat from the big gas heater into the other rooms. I know this is what I did with my fireplace in my house to circulate the heat.
Kero will get you high man. LOL.
During the ice storm here I had no power for 5-6 days and resorted to Kero for a few of them…I had to stop because it was making me feel loopy. My hunch is the space heaters will be more economical and you an zone your heat for the room you’re in. JMHO
Yep, I used to live in one near American Brass on military. The apartment was around 900 sq feet with one gas heater in the middle.
Even with the gas heater on, keeping the room it was in around 70, the bathrooom would get down as low as the 40’s on really cold nights. Used to getup and run a kerosene heater in the bathroom in morning just to warm it up so my ass didn’t freeze to the seat.
$3 a day, if you ran it 24/7. So even if you took a full hour getting ready you’re talking .12/day, $3.60 a month to heat the bathroom with a 1500 watt ceramic heater.
Yeah, but I already had the kerosene heater, and considering the electrical issues in this place, I wouldn’t have wanted to take any chances with an electric heater. Just the coffee maker would blow the fuse.
So i deleted it.
I just wanted to point out, that in 0 circumstances is a pellet heater better than natural gas when it’s available for whole house heating.
I’m nearly positive you can’t put them in bedrooms, so that eliminates that. Especially since I doubt the landylord wants a 4" hole in his wall.
Figure out the REAL cost of your electric per kwh.
Figure out your heater efficiency.
Figure out your REAL nat gas price.
and crunch some numbers.
Probably using an electric heater in a bedroom at nights would save money if you turn your gas way down to 50 or so.
But other than that it probably won’t save anything unless your efficiency is terrible.
Although I never ended up doing this^, we never turned the heat on downstairs the whole winter. It got down to 45 degrees, lol. Electric baseboard heating in the bedrooms at night along with a heater blanket.
I actually like having the room a little colder and using the heater blanket to keep warm. Either way, I wouldn’t suggest leaving anything turned on during the day when you aren’t home.