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Mine is on a fused spur but it actually came wired up for a normal socket and the brackets just screw into rawl plugs I have never used the wifi option on it.
Bought for a Chinese New Year sale, so half off.
I wouldn't have paid full retail for one.
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Its now approaching summer so its not as much of an issue to have heat in there so got a few months to look at different options.
Yesterday I got one of those cheap electric fan heaters and put it on for about 15 minutes on one corner of the room whilst I used the oil radiator on the other. As the room is so large I don't think its enough to heat it up sufficiently.
I had a look at some electric radiators, ones you just mount on the wall, no pipes or messing about with people coming to install it.
There are 3 windows in the garage so I'm going to need at least two radiators for ones on opposite sides of the room. For a 25 sq m room I will need 2500 watts wouldn't I? So either 2 x 1200w ones on each side or 1 x 1400w and 1 x 1100 watt, with the larger sized one being where the window isn't by a door as heat will escape faster?
Or I could start with one electric radiator and see how that goes, use the oil one on the other side?
To answer your question, I have no set pattern but on winter days I have a timer which will turn the heating on at 8am. I generally tend to start work at 10am so it has 2 hours to take the chill out of the room. How long it stays on depends on how long I will be in there. When I turn the radiator off I usually leave the fsan running as I it helps circulate air a little bit.
If anything, I erred on the side of undersizing my heater. My intention is not to suggest what size heater or fan you should get, rather it was to point out that a fan can be a great help to an oil filled radiator.
I conclude I am going to need at least 1 electric radiator by a window anyway, and then try the method you do with the oil filled one and fan perhaps on the other side of the room.
Something like this:
https://www.electricradiatorsdirect.co.uk/wall-mounted-electric-radiators/haverland-designer-rcwave-rc7w-electric-radiator-1100w/
I place my fan close to it and facing it so that it blows air through the radiator.
The Relative humidity will vary drastically during the cold winter months
What construction is the room? Is this an external garage? Does it have DPC and double glazing, internal plaster walls, cavity walls, insulated floor?
How is it affected by sunlight, does it get hot on summer days?
What temperature is the room when it's unheated at 8am on a day when it's -3C outside?
The 2400w radiator will cover 32sq m. The 1200w 16 sq m each.
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Storage heaters look a bit untidy in the room well the box type ones, a wall mount radiator looks neater. Plus I'm not sure they do storage heaters up to 2400w anyway. If they don't I will need multiple.
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