Cheapo Oil Heater

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This review is for a super cheap (£20) oil heater from Screwfix I added to my groom as autumn set in.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/freestanding ... 500w/8833p

Despite its size, this thing packs out a fair bit of heat. I had it on at half power constantly, and it kept the tent at a comfortable 25oC (when combined with the heat produced by the lights).

Running costs appear relatively low as well. The whole groom (with the heater) was costing about £1 a day to run (estimated from how much the eleccy bill went up!)

Because I am in the loft, I feed the extract out under the duvets covering the tent, to provide some extra warmth and no just loose all the heat. This has worked really well.

The heater itself is relatively small in size, great for the 75x75cm tent I have. I point a fan at it to make the most of its potential and create some convection heat.

Overall, it has been reliable and totally fit for purpose, so for £20 an amazing piece of kit!

[grownnotflown420]

plug a smart plug with electricity monitoring in then you can get the exact electricity cost, if you're bothered that is. I have prepay electric so I'm more eager to keep an eye on usage

If you wanna be real specific you can plug every electrical item in your groom into a smart plug and work out costs for each item. This is what I do then have a raspberry pi pulling the data from all plugs and displaying it on a nice local web page for me.

I picked up 4 smart plugs for like £14 off amazon