Using Radiator Electric Heater in Bathtub

[donaldb]

I'm elderly and disabled. I am on a fixed income and cant afford much. To save on costly fuel I keep the house temperature set to 45 deg. That's as low as the thermustat goes. Because it cold in the house, I only take a bath about once a month. When I get cold I put a small electric heater in the bedroom, which is the only room I use in winter. But the bathroom is cold and there is no door on it so putting a heater in the room does nothing. I can take a bath if the water was hotter but its only gets warm. I know you cant put those electric heaters that get red inside into the tub because the electric will leak into the water, but can I put the electric radiator kind into the water to warm it up, and leave it in there while I am taking my bath? At least then I'd be warm even if the room is cold.

Donald B

[SBH]

5.5 on the troll meter.

[ransley]

Sure go ahead

[The Daring Dufas]

If you take an extension cord, strip the wires back from the receptacle end and install alligator clips, clamp the clips to your ears, plug the cord in and you will quickly warm up. It's the same principle as the electric hot dog cooker and should keep you quite warm.

TDD

[Steve]

If this isn't a perfect scenario for that Legionella thing, I don't know what is??????

[donaldb]

Thanks

I thought it was safe since the heater is sealed. Now I can enjoy a nice hot bath, which I am going to do first thing in the morning.

Donald B

[in2dadark]

And that would be a 'mental' disability?

[Red Green]

[e-mail] wrote in news:8sdhl45m1eltv7j6hgdr6tdgkn1v0unvhp@

4ax.com:

Throw a quart of gas in the bathwater. It will float on the water. Toss in a match. The gas will burn calmly like a can of sterno. By the time the quart of gas burns off the top the water will be absolutely peachy.

[ransley]

Let us know how it went.

[Stormin Mormon]

Would that be hydrogen gas, oxygen gas, or maybe nitrogen gas?

[Stormin Mormon]

Please let us know how it works out. Sounds like it has electrifying possibilities.

[Red Green]

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:gjgpjn $r9a$ [e-mail]:

Silly goose. I said quart. Those are measured in hecto-yards.

[ransley]

I think he should go look for that water heater in the basement he forgot about and turn it on.

[Red Green]

ransley wrote in news:c1ef9b25-dd03-4cf5-bf00- [e-mail]:

He's disabled. Can't get down the basement.

Hey [e-mail], since you are disabled you muss gets a check huh?

[Ed Pawlowski]

My bathtub has methane gas bubbles.

[terry]

My answer to this is; Do-nut heat it that way..

If it's an old metal bathtub you could perhaps heat up the water with a blowlamp. Might scorch the paint a bit but what the heck?

Or metal pails of water heated up on an old electric 'hot plate' plugged in in the bedroom and then lugged into the bathroom!

Sounds a bit like we used to bathe when we were kids, in a house with no electricity at all, water was heated on the stove and poured into a metal bath tub.

That UK house which family had rented just at the end of WWII was Victorian. It was owned by a Miss Bracegirdle (I kid you not) who had evacuated out of the city due to the bombing and then had retired. It was, actually in a part of the city which hadn't been too badly hit by the bombing.

[ransley]

But thats where the bathroom is

[Steve]

Hopefully he has a "ground fault circuit interrupter" in his bathroom circuit............