Best Radiator for 15m2 Room: Oil or Convector? Budget PLN 200-400, Heating 2-3 Days/Week

Hello. I need to heat a room of about 15m2 and I'm wondering what would be best for it. After a little research, I limited myself to two solutions: a convector radiator and an oil radiator, aiming more at the oil radiator. I know more or less the pros and cons. I will add that the room is not insulated at all and it would be heated 2-3 times a week for about half a day. What can you advise me? The budget he plans is about PLN 200, but if it would make sense to add another PLN 200, why not. Is it used and if so does anyone have one for sale? Regards ?

In my opinion, heating with a radiator makes sense if you want to heat around the clock.
If you plan to heat for a few hours, 3x a week, I think I'd prefer an infrared heater with a sufficiently low power that would keep it warm for those few hours.
You have the heating effect at the radiator immediately, so you don't waste time heating the room, but on the other hand, the radiator will heat more in a zone and direction.

If you are to sit in this room, unfortunately, it will not be pleasant with such periodic heating. If mental work is "oil oil" - it will not irritate with noise and is safer. The fan convector will heat the room faster.

V3nzon wrote:

After a little research, I limited myself to two solutions: a convector radiator and an oil radiator, aiming more at the oil radiator. I know more or less the pros and cons. I will add that the room is not insulated at all and it would be heated 2-3 times a week for about half a day

Neither one nor the other - a fan heater will work here.

jdubowski wrote:

this is where the thermostat comes in handy.

unless the noise generated by the fan is irritating, because it can annoy you enough to throw it out the window.
In addition, it is worth remembering that if someone is allergic, with such a blower all the syfus fly around the room and we mix the dust.
There is no perfect solution, but something has to be chosen.

A fan heater in the sense of "farelka" will rather annoy with noise, I'm not allergic (probably) ? I'm leaning towards a convector because in this oil you have to wait for it to heat up. As for the radiator, it rather falls off as it heats directionally. And if anyone knows, the convector vs. oil - how does it work in terms of electricity costs? How much can such a convector eat during these 3 days a week? Thanks for the replies ?

The oil warms up in about 10 minutes (depending on how many heaters are on). The electricity costs of the oiler/fan heater/convector will be identical.

Popular heaters usually have coils/heaters around 2000W-2500W. If such a heater / spiral worked non-stop, it gives 2-2.5 KWh per hour. That is around PLN 1.3-1.6 / h. Of course, usually the thermostat disconnects the heater from time to time. But I would count the worst case scenario, which is PLN 1.60/h.

The radiant heater, Bucks wrote, has advantages here. You turn it on and where it radiates, it gets warm. Not that you heat up the whole room slowly with a radiator.

V3nzon wrote:

- how does it work out in terms of electricity costs? How much can such a convector eat during these 3 days a week?

Heater power x number of hours of heater operation x number of days in a month x price of 1 kWh in this area.

In that case, if the costs are similar, I will take a convector because it is the cheapest from what I see to buy. From quick calculations I get 200-max. PLN 300/month And this radiator somehow convinces me on average and from what I see it costs a bit. Now the question is will I buy something sensible for PLN 200?

V3nzon wrote:

And this radiator somehow convinces me on average and from what I see it costs a bit.

In Castorama, you can buy a quartz radiator with 2 power levels 500/1000W for PLN 40, so you can buy it for tests. It does not cost a fortune, and you will have an idea of \u200b\u200bhow the 0.5 / 1kW radiator works, although the comment on Castorama shows that quartz heaters burn out quickly, so do not expect a long operation for PLN 40.
For a few hundred then you can get radiators but for wall mounting and there are not always the powers that you would like, but if you play with it from Castorama, you will have an idea what power range of the radiator would be optimal for you.

Fan heaters heat up the room quite quickly, but the noise is too annoying for me to treat it as a constant source of heat. And you have to be careful about the quality of workmanship, because I once saw a fan heater in which the power cord began to melt, because the entire fan heater was overheating and further unattended operation could cause a fire.

Personally, I would prefer an oil heater, because when the heater is turned off, it keeps the heat for a while, so the perceived comfort will be better for a while, especially in a cold room where if the heater does not radiate heat, it feels cold.
Oil oil is also relatively safe, because you have no chance of overheating the radiator so that it leads to a fire, more likely a fire may be due to a fault in the electrical system.
But choose what suits you better.

I also look at aesthetics. This radiator looks average. Oil as such and the convector looks ok. If you have no objections, I would take the third one. And any trustworthy brands at this price or average? ?

In the "olejak" for me, there is less risk that something will fall in there, the wind will blow and ignite, you can connect the weekly programmer and come to a slightly warmer room. But rather, it will be much more expensive in terms of price, I have seen convectors with a daily programmer below a hundred. As for the quartz radiators, I once bought a quartz one from the market for trips with kids, because some people cut into the rod with heating, but unfortunately the smell was uninteresting.

I understand Kaczakat well, did you buy a stay from someone and warm yourself with your radiator?

yanes wrote:

I understand Kaczakat well, did you buy a stay from someone and warm yourself with your radiator?

When I go into the unknown, I am prepared for almost any situation, I even carry my own gas grill, not to mention sleeping bags. And this quartz has such a smell that it's only suitable for the garage.

Approx. I decided on one. We'll see how it performs.

kaczakat wrote:

And this quartz has such a smell that it's only suitable for the garage.

I don't have such experience, but I wouldn't generalize that all radiators are like that.
Maybe you got the wrong model.

V3nzon wrote:

Approx. I decided on one. We'll see how it performs.

You will rather check it in the next heating season.
You can then share your impressions, which may help others make a similar decision, although I always think that this is an individual matter.
Everyone has their own preferences, so such opinions should never be treated as 100% accurate, because there is always a risk that, for example, what was great for someone will be average for us or vice versa.

The topic has been around for a while .... and I have a question, is the energy consumption in oil and convector units the same? Is it cheaper to use oils? A friend told me that when he replaced the convection with oil tanks, he got lower bills ... But I don't know if it's not the effect of an electronic thermostat and an even temperature.