Need a space heater, baby and pet safe

mts

So before october of this year, I never really cared about temperature of our house, we usually had it set low to save money on heating it. As such the two bedrooms over our garage (master and guest) have always been cold, especially during the winter months. we just threw another blanket on the bed and called it a night even when we lost power for almost 2 weeks during the winter storm and our dishsoap froze.

however, the end of September brought our son and with it, the heating our house to at least 68 degrees all the time. Since our house is old the heating is not very even, plus our thermostat is tucked away in the corner so it isn't super accurate. last night i had to crank the temp to like 74 to get our bedroom to the sweet baby range.

this does not seem super efficient since sometimes 68 means 68 and sometimes 68 means like 64 depending on the room. was thinking getting a small space heater would help warm the bedrooms at night without having to crank up the entire house.

while i am sure most space heaters are the same i am looking for something with:

a thermostat.

safety (temp cutoff and tip over preferably)

cool touch type thing.

something that won't burn our house down.

relatively quiet

small room 8 x 10 really

this will only get used when the baby is home.

saw this one on newegg that looked pretty good, but figured i would throw this to the collective
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16896101158

Count Funkula

Take a look at the Dyson heaters. A little pricey, but very safe and they work well.

http://www.dyson.com/fans/heaters.asp

mts

yea should have said would not like to spend dyson money on this thing

bowen

That's not a bad one. Most modern space heaters aren't like your kerosene heaters of old, so, almost all of them are safe. Ceramic ones I think are the "safe to touch by accident, oops I'm a baby" types.

Esh

I read this as "I need a space heater, a baby, and a safe for my pets."

November Fifth

I prefer radiant heaters similar to this one:

http://www.honeywellcentral.com/product/honeywell-hz-519-digital-low-profile-heater

While it does take some time to heat up a room, it is completely silent and doesn't dry out the air as much as a fan driven heater.

I worry a bit about a baby, toddler or pet somehow pulling the upright heater over on to itself.

Count Funkula

I had a DeLonghi oil-filled radiator heater like the one you linked to on Newegg in my son's room when he was a baby. While I was putting him in his crib one night, I lost track of where it was and pressed my leg against it, burning my calf quite badly. It was all I could do to not drop my son. I still can see the mark on my leg almost three years later. So, I would not recommend something like that where children are involved. We ended up going with a Misubishi Mr Slim ductless heating/cooling system for that room and the other room upstairs. $$$, but solved the heating (and cooling) issue in that part of the house.

illig

We use a delonghi oil filled radiator and an electric blanket. The electric blanket is great at night, but im not sure of it's baby safe. . .

Midshipman

November Fifth wrote:

I prefer radiant heaters similar to this one:

http://www.honeywellcentral.com/product/honeywell-hz-519-digital-low-profile-heater

While it does take some time to heat up a room, it is completely silent and doesn't dry out the air as much as a fan driven heater.

From a thermodynamics standpoint that isn't possible. If you are heating the air, you are lowering the relative humidity regardless of whether by radiation or convection.