heater for bathroom

8 years ago

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I am currently remodeling my bathroom I don't have the money to put in floor heating and so I'm looking for the next best thing. I currently have a floor register right next to the toilet and also close to the tub. it is kind of cumbersome when it comes to trying to really deep clean around the toilet. so my question is do I go back with a floor register or would does everybody think about it in wall heater or wall mount with a fan. what is the best way to pick out the right size of heater that I would need the square footage of my bathroom is only a hundred and fifty feet.

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Nancy in Mich

8 years ago

I put in a cove electric heater. It mounts between the top of the door and the ceiling. It radiates infrared heat waves down on everything in it's line of "view" and heats up objects by "shining " down on them like the sun, then they give off heat. So if it is pointing at your floor, you tile gets warm, at your towel, your towel gets warm, at your shower door, the glass gets warm....

I have used this in two other rooms in my house for supplemental heat (the outside corner rooms, with two "outside" walls that get so cold). You just hook them up to 240 or 120 current, hook up the thermostat that you buy with it, mount the thing, and you are done. I just put a third on in our new bathroom remodel, too. Being August, we have not used it yet. So I don't know if it will make the tile toasty or reach a towel hanging on the wall. But it kept Dad's room nice when he was 94 years old and bedbound, and DH loves the one in his office/music room/library. The one in the bathroom has a programmable thermostat so it will be toasty when he gets up in the morning.

See, it up there near the ceiling? $138 It comes in three colors. Comfort Cove Heaters

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8 years ago
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If you don’t have money for in floor heating, then you don’t have money to run the required new electrical circuits and pay the labor to properly do something other heating choice. Because it will cost about the same for a Pro to add all the electrical parts and pieces, and labor, no matter what you choose.
Megan Morrill-Denton
Original Author
8 years ago
I think you need to stop giving advice your nothing but cruel and didn't even give an answer to my question. There are others alternatives to in floor heating other than the heater the rest if my project is none of your business. Not that it's your business my husband is an electrician. Your ideas are old and nothing you have said on your other post have ever been helpful. So don't quite your day job.
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dragonflywings42
8 years ago
That is so cool, Nancy.^^^ I've never heard of those.
Nancy in Mich
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
I had not, either. I was looking for supplemental heat for Dad's room twelve or fourteen years ago and found it in an internet search. The heat does not dry you out as the blowing hot air does. It creates its own natural circulation, but not one that feels drafty. They are made in the USA. The web page claims that they are super efficient. We were paying two homes' bills at the time that we were using the heater daily, so we can't say if it really is a noticeable increase in the electric bill. We had a new furnace, so had nothing to compare it with. We have only used these to add to the heat in cold rooms not well heated by the whole-house forced air furnace.

Oh - and they are silent or almost silent! One of ours sometimes buzzes.
Megan Morrill-Denton thanked Nancy in Mich
User
8 years ago
And it requires the addition of a dedicated electrical circuit.
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Debbi Washburn
8 years ago
Megan - that cove heater Nancy suggested looks like a great idea! I 'm sure it will be no problem for your hubby to get a line to the bathroom to use something like that....

Good luck - I am going to follow to see what you come up with!
Megan Morrill-Denton thanked Debbi Washburn
Nancy in Mich
8 years ago
Sophie, yes, it does, or two if you go for 240 to save on electrical costs. If the OP's husband is an electrician, he knows that.
Megan Morrill-Denton
Original Author
8 years ago
Thank you Nancy that is very helpful and I surely appreciate your post that is exactly what I am looking for