I had electric wall heaters, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend them.
- I have lived in quite a few houses with quite a few different types of heating systems, but I definitely hated the electric wall heaters the most.
These electric wall heaters are basically glorified space heaters, but they can be left unsupervised. Let me explain how these wall heaters work. They look like the small heaters in each room for a radiator/boiler. However, instead of heating your house with steam like the radiators connected to a boiler, they simply plug into the breaker box. Each room gets one of these heating systems, and that also means that each room gets a thermostat. Although it might seem cool to have a thermostat in every room that can allow people to set the temperature to whatever they like, what mostly happened was kids would adjust the thermostats way too high and then open the window and waste all that heat. While these electric wall heaters were super affordable to buy at the store, they can at a cost. These electric wall heaters were just as expensive to use on a daily basis as a space heater. While you might have felt like you were saving money when you bought these heaters at the beginning, you definitely spent more in the long run compared to a furnace. The worse part about these electric wall heaters was the appearance. They looked terrible, and you had to arrange your room based on the placement. I definitely do not miss the electric space heaters, and I am content with my furnace.