Options for heating a room?

What kinda homesteading dogs are these that can't abide 30 to 40ºF temperatures????

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Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

We use Delonghi oil filled radiators as a supplemental heat source. They heat up nicely. Some have a timer so it will turn on and off when you set it. Plus they are electric, so not as expensive to run as other heat sources.

Rose, did you not notice in the article you copied that everything is "In our opinion . . . . ."? Of course they have going to say such things about the competition!!!!!!

As Rose2005 has said, the ventless heaters of today now have an oxygen depletion sensor in it. If the oxygen gets low, the heater shuts off automatically.

As for the carbon monoxide and other things, EVERYONE should have a cabron monoxide detector in their house anyway!!!!!

When we moved into our house (an over 100 year old farm house), the forced air natural gas heater kept breaking down. Every single year there was a $200.00 or more repair bill and parts were getting hard to find. We bought several ventless heaters, liked the warm heat it put off instead of the darn heater we had that blew air all over. We have now installed a total of 4 of the largest ventless heaters we could find (1 in the basement, 2 on the main floor, and 1 upstairs) and only use the main furnace (it still works now but we will not get it fixed again when it breaks) when it gets extremely cold.

The nice thing with the ventless heater is it runs without electricity. (If you live in an area where the electric goes out on a regular basis you know how important that is!)

As for the moisture "problem", while a new insulated house might have that problem, I guarantee you a 100 + year old farm house does not.

The only complaint I have, is after running the ventless heater for a season, by the Spring, there is a "film" on the windows, mirrors, etc. But I can live with the film as long as those heaters keep me nice and warm during the winter!

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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania

"Everything happens for a reason."

get them a rubber heated dog bed undermat.

Try base board heaters. Our dogs sleep outside unless it gets below 25-30. It depends on how their acting that day. 30-40's their butts are outside.

The room is currently uninsulated. It is a converted screen room/porch with single pane windows that we are in the process of insulating. We use the room ourselves quite a bit in the summer, but we (and the dogs I'm sure) would spend more time there in the winter if it were warmer.

The walls are part block (the bottom 30" of the wall) and wood frame on a concrete floor. The 45-50 degree range is as low as this room has ever gotten without any supplemental heating; temps around here don't get much lower than 35 degrees in a cold winter.

Google -> dog bed heat mat

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I hear good things about those. A guy who works with my son sells them and several coworkers bought them last year and loved them. One of them will heat 1200 square feet and the guys tell my son it only raises their electric bill about $30.00. Not sure of the brand but I am going to look at them more closely. I think he sells them for $400.00.