Econo-Heat Panel Heaters

They are super good in bedrooms. You can leave them on all the time, but we don't. I just go in and turn it on about 4pm and turn it off when I go to bed, or when they go to bed if its warm enough. You could put them on timers I guess, but I jsut do it that way. Love them and totally reccomend them.

fattartsrock wrote: They are super good in bedrooms. You can leave them on all the time, but we don't. I just go in and turn it on about 4pm and turn it off when I go to bed, or when they go to bed if its warm enough. You could put them on timers I guess, but I jsut do it that way. Love them and totally reccomend them.

We do this too, i know they say you can leave them on all the time, but we dont need too.   

Highly recommended here too

Those of you with the econo heaters, how has it affected your power bill? We were looking at getting one, but DP did the math as what was on their website and didn't think it was worth it?

Our IL's have not long built a new house. They have a heat pump in the living area, and a heat pump in the hallway and it works brilliantly.

I think they keep their hallway heat pump on the lowest setting (16 degrees?) and only put it up to 18degrees when it gets really cold (and hey, we live in southland!). It works real well as they have it on "quiet" mode all the time and it just potters along keeping the cold out, but not warming it as such...

We had them in our last house and they were awesome. We had a 100 year old cottage in ChCh so not exactly warm with only open fires for heating. The bedrooms stayed really warm but we left ours on the whole time. We noticed no difference in our power bill at all and would have as it was the only thing added on in winter.

I only put the econo heater on for about 1 hour before we go to bed, I shut the bedroom door to keep the warmth in, and turn it off when I go to bed its warm enough.  Don't need it on all night yet.

Yeah mitre 10 mega is the cheapest, and we haven't noticed a change the power bill and we had it last winter, the coldest winter in ages.

Thanks for your reply, its not that they would not install the second heat pump in the hall way just that we were 'wasting our money as such'.
The main heatpump does heat the core of our house but the rooms are a little cooler then the main area's as they are on the south side. We like our house to be warm in all areas (we lived in Australia for 5 years and got used to warm nights.) and I think it would be alot cheaper to install econo heaters in all the bedroooms as opposed to a heat pump which may do the same thing.

we have one in Jayden's room and it seems to work really well!! We have it on a timer - goes on at 5pm and switches off at 7:30am.

We are also looking at getting one of these installed - in Isla's room. We are renting from my BIL and he got a massive heatpump put in our lounge (we were going to get small one in lounge and small one down hallway but were told one big one would be enough - it's not - our bedroom and Isla's room are still FREEZING! - our walls aren't insulated, brrrrrrr!) anyway...... I rung the Econoheat place the other day and told him our scenario and he said it would work perfectly. Just one in each bedroom. He said they use half the electricity an oil column uses (about the same as 2 lightbulbs I think he said, so very efficient) and they heat the room to about 5 degrees more than what temp would be without it. In our case, it will put Isla's room to at least 20 degrees (gets ReALLY cold in there!). They have 2 sizes. one to suit a 9sqm room and one to suit 12sqm. Glad there are so many good comments about them on here, looks like they are the way to go.
Also, thanks for mentioning Mitre 10 Mega, the hornby one is just down the road from us so very handy Might go have a look today.