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That sounds like the sort of East German propaganda of the communist era.

32Vac, thank you for the advise, but it is still not enough and I'm so depressed. I even put wet towels on the tubes, but that makes them rusty which can cause the brake of the tubes which is a disaster in a 10 storey house.
I'm looking for a low energy vapouring system, or something like that.
Tho we can hardly breathe in the morning and go out to drink twice every night.

Gloria,
What you need at home is a way to bring the Humidity of the rooms up to what it should be.
Even if it is something simple as a glass of water sitting somewhere in the room.
Humidity will find it's own level, but introducing steam into a room has it's own problems during the winter.
Good ventilation also helps, even though having a few windows open during the Winter, may sound strange, air ventilation also helps to correct Humidity problems.

Yes, should be.

Paul,
Sorry I missed that comment the first time around.
I must say that they were rather popular here as well.
To a certain extent, I reckon that they gave a better, more even sort of heat, not a blast of hot air as with the fan-type heaters.
Just a note Dave about bathroom ventilation fans, AS/NZS 3000 requires that they be supplied by an SELV (Safety Extra Low Voltage) supply, meaning 12 or 24V.

More like Nazi era.

Here's a couple of examples of ceiling-mount
Fans used Down-under:

From aussie240:

For the purpose of comparison- In the States the most common for of supplimental bathroom heat is a heater built into the exhaust fan/light unit.
This is either a fan that does NOT vent, but simply recirculated bathroom air after heating it, or an additional light socket into which an infra-red bulb (250 watt) is inserted.

Some clever folks simply install a recessed light fixture, and place an infra-red bulb in it. The parabolic reflector in these bulbs does a fine job of heating the floor below- quite nice when you step out of the shower!

Older homes (such as mine) have a space heater built into the wall, with a simple toggle switch. These units, which are little more than glorified toasters, usually have their own 115 v, 15 amp circuit.

None of these methods are usually GFCI (RCD) protected.

A fancier type of heater mounts on the wall, usually along the bottom of the wall. It has a heating element inside a finned, oil-filled tube. When hot, a small fan comes on and circulates air over the tube. The thermostat is part of the switch mounted on the unit, and is adjusted by turning the knob. This style is usually fed by a 240 volt, 20 amp circuit.

I have seen quartz bare heaters which some may find scary.

Then there are the old parabolic radiant heaters, which have a parabolawith a porcelan cone in the center, wrapped in nicrome coil.

Here in Canada, you have a smaller basboard, or a fan forced plain coul heater, either at 240V.

Out bathroom has possibility for neither, so we use a portabe 1.5 KW heater(usually in 750 W mode though), fortunatey of course, plugged into the bathroom GFI recepticle.