Which type of heater is best for a bathroom?

I'll leave you to figure out whether you can answer that one yourself.

Presumably the fan has inadequate power. If it's beyond repair, your best o ptions are infra-red heater, typically 500-1kW, and another fan heater. But thermostatise them properly this time.

NT

Who said that we had no gas?

If only it were that simple.

Many years ago we had a fan heater wall mounted like yours in a bathroom. It worked fine. I wonder if perhaps the fan on yours was not powerful enough to blast the hot air down to floor level.

I'd look at infra red. You can point it at the khazi, and then you'll be warm even if the room isn't.

Andy

And, in some makes at least, a heated seat.

I heard it can be fixed with a single magic word. The word is fodmap.

NT

I have a lifetime bowel condition. My advice is to always put a jumper or something on when you run to the bathroom, and also keep a dressing gown in there.

Bill

Good idea about the jumper Bill. I had my dressing gown on and ended up wrapping the towel around myself too - it was bloody cold!

If you saw the photo I posted earlier, the hot air hardly makes it to the top of the towel rail :-(

If that is the exact fan then the fitting instructions suggest it can be preset on installation for 1kW OR 2kW = it doesn't necessarily switch from one setting to the other. The thermostat has 5 settings the higher of which is 32 degrees C. On a down blowing fan heater 32C is bloody hot, even at the ceiling height of the room. With a 7ft 6inch high ceiling at 32c I would expect the temperature lower down to be in the mid to high 20s C.

I wonder if either the thermostat was set too low on installation (the lowest setting 7C, the highest 32C) or the safety cut out has been kicking in on a regular basis. The safety cut-out prevents internal overheating. Overheating may have been caused by a build up of dust semi blocking the air flow. Luxury and soft toilet paper is a great source of lots of fine airborne dust!

Why not just heat the water in the toilet bowl?

and for the shorter visits

How fast do you think a 2W fan heater will heat a room to, say, 20C from

Found both entirely adequate in reasonably insulated bathrooms

Well yes, but I did wonder why you suggested it.

But them I realised that a high SI* goes along with a leftish political bent and high 'EQ'...

Who said that you did?

The op's house is heated yet the bathroom freezing cold, so it's not much insulated if at all.

NT

you could just be grown up & sensible.