Electric Room heater: Personal experience help please?

[This2ShallPass]

Hoping to get some recommendations from people who actually OWN and USE space heaters please.

Daughter is renting unheated 270 sf studio in normal 40's building in Bay Area. Gets into low 40s at night. Oil filled radiator provided runs freezing one night and 90s next, so she's getting sleep deprived, up and down all night changing the settings

Looking for space heater that

has thermostat to set by single degrees (not by 5s)
will keep room constant temp (within 2-3 degrees) all night
is quiet or doesn't need a fan
won't cost her hundreds to run.

Does NOT have to heat room up quickly, just maintain it that way all night. She does NOT like the glowing red bars that warm up one side of her body while the other side is cold lol. Looking for warm air.

Any help would be great! (Already tried Lasko 751320 Ceramic Tower, only heats in 5 degree intervals and, again, thermostat totally unreliable.)

Thanks,

T2

 

[Voi]

I have run several electric space heaters through 120v thermostats. Even a cheap "milk house" thermostat I bought 20 years ago can still hold a room to 5* temperature range. I still use it when I need to keep a large closet in my shop heated for storing anything I don't want to freeze.

I have used basic plug in type thermostats from Johnson Controls and Ranco that were very nice. Both had adjustable hysteresis. They were wired with an extra plug so that both a fan and the heater could be ran off the same thermostat. So whenever the heater kicked on a small fan also turned on.

So I guess my point would be to keep the oil filled heater and run it through a better thermostat.

 

[theoldwizard1]

won't cost her hundreds to run.

This part is impossible ! Resistance heat is THE MOST EXPENSIVE WAY TO HEAT A ROOM !

It would probably be cheaper to heat with a Mr. Heater Big Buddy Heater and an adapter for a 20lb BBQ tank (they do have oxygen monitors builtin so it will shut off if the oxygen get too low).

I am not sure about how well the thermostat works on them,

 

[Daves69]

Have her get a heated mattress pad. She'll be toasty all night.

 

[gregtwojeeps]

Cannot say I have ever experienceed my 1500W electric/oil filled heaters being erratic to control. I think the OP's daughter would do well to get a electric blanket, set in to about 2 or whatever is comfy, and sleep well. Will not matter if her bedroom gets 5-10 deg.f. variance overnight. JMO

 

[Ross/Kzoo]

Cannot say I have ever experienceed my 1500W electric/oil filled heaters being erratic to control. I think the OP's daughter would do well to get a electric blanket, set in to about 2 or whatever is comfy, and sleep well. Will not matter if her bedroom gets 5-10 deg.f. variance overnight. JMO

This would save you the hundreds of dollars you don't want to spend.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Have her get a heated mattress pad. She'll be toasty all night.

Actually, this is a good suggestion !

My parents retirement home was heated by a wood stove. It did not heat the bedroom well at all ! Temps in there were 50s at best. They loved their heated mattress pad.

Heated blankets don't work nearly as well.

 

[gregtwojeeps]

Actually, this is a good suggestion !

My parents retirement home was heated by a wood stove. It did not heat the bedroom well at all ! Temps in there were 50s at best. They loved their heated mattress pad.

Heated blankets don't work nearly as well.

No,no,no, electrically heated mattresses don't handle pee too well.