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[Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Gil <gil.white AT xplornet.com> wrote:
> That's been my experience as well. The oil filled unit takes awhile to warm
> up but it's given us back our living room which was very drafty and probably
> only good for hanging meat before.

Mine too. I got my oil-filled heatere very cheap: my sister gave it to
me because she didn't want it any longer. I use kerosene heaters for
heating a room I'm going to sit in only an hour or son (if your house
is tight, you might not want one, but I don't, er, have that concern).
 I have electric base heaters upstairs in two rooms, and the hallway,
and they are pretty nice -- I ran the one in the hall all last winter
to make the cats happy, and it didn't raise my electric bill much. I
have to say that the cats prefer kerosene (but, of course, kerosene
heaters should never be left on if unattended by a sentient human). I
have a fireplace insert in the front room, and I'd love to have one
put in the room with TV, which has a fireplace (with a glass screen so
it's not entirely worthless -- just nearly so).

Marie