Heaters

Our house does come with a heating system. Unfortunately, the walls and windows are so poorly insulated, that the furnace would have to run constantly to keep the house warm. We'd be paying to heat the whole Parowan valley. So, we went looking for supplemental heaters--small units that can warm a single room while it is being used. The first one we bought had to function without electricity, since the power was out for a number of days. We got a little propane unit that runs off of two little one-pound mini bombs. The heater works. It does what it is supposed to do. But it burns up the mini bombs in what seems like minutes. And those things ain't cheap. So, what . . . would we recommend it? Probably not. It probably costs five dollars a day to run it and we would be better off just cranking the furnace.

Once the power came back on, we bought a little electric space heater. Then we returned it and tried another one. And then a third. We returned them all and have given up on that for the time being. Back in the day I remember that those little electric heaters got HOT--too hot to handle. These ones that we have tried are only lukewarm. I could sit on them with a bare bottom. (Not that I ever would, of course.) I suppose that some folks got burned and maybe a few houses went up in flame, and the manufactures decided to make these things harmless. I guess that is fine, except it means that they don't work. They are sort of warm, but we need hot, and hot they ain't.