What heater wont dry out my skin? wake up sweating - horrible.

its hot cos your heater is on so high an oil rad is no better, but less fire risk a non electric heat source would be much cheaper and finally why is it so cold indoors? It may be you need more insulation

Finally a very energy efficient alt to space heating is an electric blanket of the kind you can keep on all night. Makes getting into bed a much nicer experience :)

NT

Either the thermostat on your fan heater is turned to maximum/doesn't work, or you are suffering from tuberculosis.

Naah. All you need is a four poster bed.

Body heat will keep this at 25C down to 10C outside or so. Add a 100W heater, and you're good to -10C.

fan heaters are not good for you, you will end up with a bad throat because they remove moisture leaving it dry and open to infection, either get an oil filled heater or a halogen heater and use the thermostat to keep the temperature stable...you only need to take the chill off the room, not get it hot

You need a better thermostat. Set it to about 15C. Then get a duvet and you should be fine.

Turn the heating off at night and get yourself a 5'5" 37.4-degree hot water bottle like mine - far better in all sorts of ways. Certainly doesn't dry my skin out, that's for sure.

And mine's Scottish too as it happens!

David

How much ventilation does it need? The one downside I see with that is that it will be cold getting into bed, and I hate getting into a cold bed. Maybe combine the two!

NT

There speaks a man without a clue.

All heaters will 'dry' the air except those that actually add water..like paraffin stoves..

Put a bowl of petunias in the room with lots of water .. they will transpire and keep the RH up.

....and typically tight :)

Oh no, not again.

yawn.

Everyone knows this, including me, the op and everyone else, ergo it doesn't need to be said, unless you think you are clever and everybody else needs informing?

but a fan heater is worse because of the movement of air, a normal free standing heater that doesn't blow will simply take the chill off the room and make it more comfortable to sleep in without taking moisture from your throat.

If you think that radiators don't circulate air, you are even stupider than you appear.

All a fan blown radiator does, is get the room up to temperature quicker, that's all.

Stupider eh?

I see....thanks for clearing that up then, so a fan heater doesn't dry the skin / throat / nose any more than every other type of heater....maybe you should tell the OP.

The methane digester underneath the bed adds lots of heat, and has a gas bag on top, to run a balanced flue heater :)

Only if it has a higher output.

It may heat it more evenly in which case it might take longer.

Well actually it heats it more evenly which results in cold spots heating up quicker and hot spots heating up slower.

I've got fan blown convectors in some rooms and rads in others. No difference really to the final result.