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> Those heaters heat one room, not a house or appartment complex.

It’s something I’ve always wondered:

At night, it might be more cost effective to heat a bedroom electrically than an entire household with gas. But that’s a forced air heating issue: you can’t block 75% of a furnace’s airflow and expect it to keep working. Europe usually has boilers and radiators so dialing down heating to just a room is possible.

Or better yet, heat the person with a mattress pad instead of the building air at night.



You don't want your pipes freezing though


Lucky that some regions actually understood how isolation of pipes works...




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