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[Closed] Heating a small cloakroom cheaply

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Our cottage has a small 'study' maybe 1.5m square that were using as a cloakroom/cupboard.

all walls are stone, one outer wall, one neighbouring and one chimney with the other being kinda in between an outer an inner wall.

It has a concrete floor (the rest of the cottage is boarded with about a 1m gap below) and is pretty damn chilly in there and retaining moisture.

keeping the door open to the house helps, but I can't help but feel there's a wat to heat it fairly cheaply.

Thoughts have got to:

keeping a tumble drier in there ...warm but moist.

fitting an electric tube heater with a thermostat. I think that may be expensive though to run

taking a warm feed off the central heating and running either a very small radiator (no idea on costs) or perhaps an underfloor solution that I could install myself?

Open to suggestions please.

Thanks


 
Posted : 17/11/2012 8:37 pm
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Insulate it. If it's only used as a cupboard then losing 100mm of each outside wall won't matter. I suggest polystyrene backed plasterboard if it's damp.


 
Posted : 17/11/2012 9:05 pm
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fair enough.

cheers


 
Posted : 17/11/2012 9:19 pm
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small electric oil filled radiator. even the cheap ones tend to have a thermostat on.


 
Posted : 17/11/2012 9:25 pm
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Delonghi Bambino 500w oil heater has done us well and cheap to run on thermostat controlled minimum setting.


 
Posted : 17/11/2012 9:37 pm
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I read this as "Heating a small cockroach cheaply" must stop watching I'm a celebrity!


 
Posted : 18/11/2012 2:13 am