**Original topic title was asking about the heating**
Since converting my garage there's no central heating so been using a portable oil filled radiator to keep it warm. Usually an hour before I need to use the room I'll put it on a medium setting, which generates enough heat to warm up the room and then I put it on a low setting for another hour or so before switching it off. It retains the heat quite well to be fair, but it takes a long time to heat up, and only kinda warms up the area immediately around it. My room is quite big (25 square metres).
**See latest post regarding insulation**
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All Dyson products are overpriced. You’re paying for the ‘cool’ factor as much as the innovation and product quality, the same as you are with Apple - why else are these companies so profitable? The question is whether it does what you want it to, as well or better than the alternatives.
I like my Dyson vacuum cleaner, by the way . (And my Apple products too.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I have exactly the same issue, I use an external garage as a home gym. If it's not insulated you need to heat the air, not the walls
The best solution is 1 or 2 electric fan heaters, run for just 5 or 10 minutes before you use the room, set a thermostat on them or put them on a lower setting when you are using the room. Otherwise you are heating the sky for 55 minutes before you use it, and a long time after you have finished.
That’s the right physics to minimise the energy loss. You need to heat the air as fast as possible, and preferably nothing else.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The dyson is 1200w, so is probably cheaper to run that your average argos £20 fan heater, and won't have the bad smell, so I've read. Whether that 1200W is better used by the fact is pushed further around the room, I'm not sure, that's probably the idea.
Your average 2-3kw fan heater does a good job of heating air up quickly and cheap too, you'd have to do a lot of heating for the £350 dyson to pay for itself, although there may be an environmental advantage.
I'd go for the cheap option myself, although the air purification model is of some interest to me as I have asthma and it might be of some benefit.
With the Dyson perhaps I can put it on for 15 minutes to blast some warm air then it’ll keep the heat for an hour. Means I use the power for a shorter duration.
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1200w is quite low output for a heater btw
I just use £20 or £30 ceramic fan heaters from argos or Currys
I would use a cheap 3kw fan heater to heat the room quickly and use the savings to pay for the additional electricity.
I'd get a couple of 2kw halogen heaters and put them on timed switches assuming the insulation is reasonable, or a 2kw halogen and a 2kw oil filled radiator (the halogen will great the room fairly quickly but once the oil filled radiator gets up to temperature it'll stay warm for an hour or so).