Apartment therapy has been reviewing space heaters since 2006 and through the years they ve gotten smarter safer and sometimes even prettier.
Apartment heater types.
The 2 commonest heaters for apartments are.
The advantage of these heaters is that they are portable and inexpensive to buy.
This heater type is discussed at fan convector heaters hydronic coils and may use electricity as a heat source or it may obtain heat from piping from a hydronic hot water heating boiler.
The main advantage of this type of heater over an electric wall heater is that an electric fan heater is usually more powerful.
The heating boiler for the apartment building serves all of the units.
Types of heaters in apartments.
The lasko 5409 ceramic portable space heater is the best all around heater for most apartment dwellers.
This gives it the ability to heat up larger rooms in colder temperatures than wall heaters can.
They make for good interim options but as with gas fired space heaters these are not as efficient as the types we had outlined above especially perimeter heating options such as trench heating.
This compact heater with carrying handle delivers 1500 watts of heat capable of warming up.
Even a small electric fan heater can operate at over 1 500 watts.