| ost typical use for an electric heater is to provide | | | | Available? |
| warmth in your home or office on cold days. | | | | If your home doesn’t come with a central |
| Commonly people use their household furnace as | | | | heating system, than you will definitely need |
| their electric heater, because it is capable of | | | | electric heaters when it gets cold. These space |
| circulating the warmth throughout the home. | | | | heaters have benefits and drawbacks depending |
| When a furnace is used to warm a place, it ends | | | | how well you take care of them. The thing people |
| up consuming more energy than as if natural gas | | | | appreciate most about the electric heater is that |
| had been used. The benefit to a furnace is that it | | | | they are portable. This means that you can take |
| is more convenient, while taking up less room and | | | | it with you as you switch between rooms in your |
| leaving a cleaner space than as if a natural gas | | | | home. So instead of having central heating heat |
| heater had been used. | | | | your entire home, wasting a lot of energy on |
| The Mystery of the Electric Heater | | | | rooms you aren’t occupying, the electric |
| The electric heater contains electric coils or strips | | | | heater just heats the room you have it in. You |
| together in various patterns. These coils or strips | | | | can choose the level of heat expelled from the |
| are what create the warmth that you feel. | | | | electric heater by switching the knob on the |
| Examples of the electric heater are heat | | | | electric heater. For cold mornings where you |
| conductors that you can find put on walls, under | | | | don’t want to deal with a cold floor as |
| windows, or on the floor in rooms. Some of these | | | | you step out of the shower, you can set the |
| electric heaters can be put up in the ceiling or in | | | | electric heater to low heat. For those days where |
| the floors so that they take up less space. | | | | you feel really cold and can’t stay under |
| Typically these heaters produce low-temperature | | | | your blanket, you can switch the electric heater |
| heat that doesn’t provide warmth beyond | | | | to high heat. |
| a room, but it may be just enough to get through | | | | This disadvantage to the electric heater is that |
| the winter chills. | | | | you need to keep an eye on it. You never want |
| In cold climates, many homes that were built | | | | to leave the electric heater unattended in another |
| after 2000 had floor heating installed. The electric | | | | room, because it has the ability to start a fire. For |
| heater is built under the flooring helping to warm | | | | example, if you have a pet in your home, they |
| the tile and wood floors. It makes it much nicer | | | | could easily knock over the electric heater without |
| when you don’t have to walk on cold | | | | you realizing it. Fortunately, some electric heaters |
| floors with bare feet in the morning. Sometimes | | | | come with an automatic shut off that works |
| the warmth extends under the carpeting too. | | | | when the electric heater is knocked over. Even if |
| Because this type of electric heater is so | | | | you have this function on your electric heater, |
| innovative, it is helping to sell the newer homes | | | | you still want to keep in the same room with you |
| especially in the New England area. | | | | for safety. |
| What Other Types of the Electric Heater are | | | | |