A space heater can be extremely efficient. As in heating only the bedroom for eight hours instead of the whole house.
Read the full replyI'm looking at houses for sale online. Quite a number list the heating as simply "Wall heat". From what I can tell, these are basically individual wall-mounted electric heatera. Don't know if they're controlled from a central thermostat, or you just set them in each room like a bunch of space heaters. Seems pretty inefficient. Am I misinterpreting this?
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Dan
A space heater can be extremely efficient.
As in heating only the bedroom for eight hours instead of the whole house.
It varies by region; google is your friend. Search google images for "wall heater" and you will get about 2,000 pictures.
Around here it is a tall thin gas or electric heating unit installed between the studs. Some have a tiny fan to circulate the heat and others just radiate it. They do a decent job of heating a room but a marginal job of heating an entire house.
In other regions of the country it means something entirely different.
Caveat emptor.
They could mean baseboard heat.
It could mean a lot of things. And terminology and what is actually used varies from one part of the country and world to another. To give yourself a good chance of getting a good answer, you should say where these houses are. Maybe even in the subject line.
In this part of the country, that usually means wall furnace, as described above. I have one sitting in may garage, waiting for the next garage sale, that I ripped out of this addition last year, in favor of extending the duct trunk from the new real furnace I installed at the same time, to replace the
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