Infared Heaters

[INTRIGUED]

Anyone have one? Anyone heard of someone who has one? Just curious to hear what people think the pro's and con's are. The advertise the amount of electricity at 8 cents a day or something to that affect.

[EclipseGST]

My parents bought 2 of the Infrared Amish made "fire places" and they are very nice. First month they noticed it dropped their gas bill a decent amount. They usually keep the furnace about 60* or so and just use the heaters to keep up. Their house is about 1600sq ft and 2 work well to keep the place warm. Not bad for $300 each after shipping.

They really bought them cause my dad owns his own Heating and A/C business and can also use them for customers if their furnace has issues and he cant get parts for a day or so. Then people can still have heat. Good write off.

[scheides]

Would any of these actually be effective in a garage? Any chance for the radiant heat hurting paint on cars?

I was thinking about hanging one or two from the ceiling....

[EclipseGST]

The ones that my parents have are "forced air" type so I couldnt see it hurting anything car related. Dont know about any other types.

[SnoEclipse]

Infrared heaters are 'radiant'. Think of beaming heat at people.

To actually heat up a large space you're going to move a lot of air across a heat source and then distro that through the room/garage.

[JET]

One thing to remember, electric heat is always basically 100% efficient. There are some heaters out there saying they are more efficient than other electric heaters, that's not true. A $20 electric ceramic heater at walmart will be as efficient as the $400 ones that are supposed to be a break through.

The money savings that they talk about with these space heaters is that you can place them in the rooms you spend a lot of time in and turn the furnace down a few degrees for the rest of the house.

Here is a nice fuel cost calculator:
http://www.woodpelletinfo.com/calculator/