Has anyone installed one in their rental? The biggest thing I'm worried about is the remote control walking away... the second biggest thing I'm worried about is damage. How did your electric fireplace hold up over time? --96.46.xxx.xx

Most buildings built before 1985 had minimal amounts of insulation where there is a large heat loss. Spray foam or solid insulation board has the least heat loss per inch. If have a thermal camera then will be see the heat loss in a house. In the house removing the fiberglass insulation then spray foam then installing a layer of bubble wrap where reducing the heat loss. If a building was super insulated there is no need for heating or cooling system. That building is net zero which uses solar panels where no need to be connected to the grid. View some videos on You tube about different type of insulation. Radiant floor electric heat or radiant floor hot water heat is much energy efficient as lower temperatures. --147.194.xxx.xx

Try wool or alpaca socks. My feet also get cold, and cold feet make you cold all over. Also, he should be checked for anemia. --107.77.xxx.x

I have put quite a few into rentals, into the existing fireplace. Just the heater log set, but basically the same as you speak of, just without the fancy cabinet. I also installed dedicated circuits with a 12-2 wire. They pull 1500 watts, or you could call it 1.5 kw an hour. With electric costing .10 per kWh, you are spending .15 per hour to operate. They are pretty and efficient . Have you considered one of those roll around heaters in the wood cabinet? Nice look and a heavy cord to plug into your outlet. --75.141.xxx.xxx

HIGHLY recommend a Bedjet!!! I bought one to keep myself COOL as I sleep very hot and it's already hot and humid in NC. But DH freezes so he uses his on the Warm setting and loves it. Expensive? Not per night, considering the comfort it gives us! I wish I'd bought one years ago. Best thing I ever got myself. --50.82.xxx.xx

I am confused here. Do you have Central Heat/Air in this house where you want to add supplemental heat? If I get cold in my house, I adjust the thermostat for more gas heat. Why do you need a supplemental heat source ? --68.63.xxx.xxx

Most of our body heat, ninety percent, escapes through the head so besides getting him checked out for anemia as someone suggested, a woolly hat should help. When I feel chilly I run for the hat not the thermostat set at 72. I wear two layers of clothing also. There are drafts and the floor can be very chilly for pets while it is hot for tall people up closer to the ceiling. --73.248.xxx.xxx

But I also don't want to go spend $x00 on something that's dumb/cheesy/inefficient/expensive/undependable/unsafe/etc. Especially because I periodically float the idea past DH, and he's like, "I'll be okay! It's only three months out of the year!" :P (November through February, more like.) And I don't mind spending $x on my own, but I certainly wouldn't spend $y without him being on board. There's a wide spread on these electric fireplaces, and I don't know enough about it to know where that line is of skimping and the whole thing being a waste, but had I had spent a little more, I would have gotten something very satisfying. --96.46.xxx.xx

Have him go get his thyroid checked --67.186.xxx.xxx

In my rentals, btw, I have a circuit under the window for a/c in summer, oil-filled space heater in winter. When we go out of town in winter, I drop off an oil-filled space heater at each house before we go, just in case the heating system has a malfunction. Also loaned one long-term to a tenant family where Mom was always cold, everybody else was too hot at her comfort temps. Just made sure they knew to NOT lay anything on it, and checked when I was in the house. That space heater helped a bunch. --70.92.xxx.xxx

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All electric space heaters draw 12.5 amps, at 120 volts that equates to 1500 Watts and put out 5100 btus of heat. I don't care whether they are small, big, plastic, wood, or metal--that is the electric energy that they draw and that is the heat that they put out. --70.90.xx.xxx

Deanna,what I suggest, might not be ethical,soI better keep quiet,maybe bring it up next Winter..........., ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Charlie..................................... --32.214.xxx.xx

May not even compre English, even a little bit............,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...............,, , ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, --32.214.xxx.xx

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This will sound crazy but... silk long johns. Thin and not at all bulky but amazing. --174.233.xxx.xxx

My daughter has an app on her phone that does something similar, but not to as great an extent, and she says it helps tremendously, as she has to get up very early. Since she started using it, she wakes up feeling much more ‘awake’, important because she has a long commute. I’ve been thinking of getting the alarm clock device for all of my family, as we all live up north, and when there isn’t much snow cover to brighten our days, we all get ‘blue’. --70.92.xxx.xxx

(Got the silk thermals. Got the angora socks. Concrete walls, so no new gas lines and awkward to go through walls.) --96.46.xxx.xx

Try heavy wool socks (look at Cabela's) and a wool army blanket UNDER your sheets. --50.32.xxx.xx