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These small electric radiant 'fires' are excellent in a small space. At the local sawmill Joelle has one in his office-cum sharpening-shed. Nice to be in there in the winter with a cup of scalding coffee talking timber and warming your butt, while the snow whirls past the window. In six months this current lovely hot weather will be a distant memory! ( Sorry Trumpy!! - any blizzards yet?! Ha Ha! )

PS. pic: Buck Rogers just Raygunned the cat!

As soon as I saw that I was thinking how typical it is for the cat to find the warm spot!

It's nowhere near the bathroom, but I have this radiant heater from the 1960s:



The guards had been improved considerably by this time. It has the red "Fireglow" bulbs below the plastic coal, typical of the period.

Here it is in darkness with just one of the two bars on:

While we're on the subject of parablic heaters, here's my two examples; this one appears to be from the early 40's:


This one is somewhat older, maybe from the late 20's. The safety aspects of both these are a worry. A two wire flex with no earth terminal provided is one thing but also having the flex terminate right on the back of the heating element seems to be unwise...anyone who's serviced heating appliances knows the outcome of that. Finally we have no cord anchorage of course, with the wires merely passing through a porcelain grommet and straight to the terminals.
Someone who has fitted a three core flex in the past merely twisted the earth wire around the stand at the back.


SvenNYC,
I like the look of that "heat dish". I had no idea those things were still being made. They certainly don't sell them here anymore. Is that a current model? I might have a look around to see if anyone's selling them online and get one. Of course I'd need two in series, or make up a triac regulator to drop the voltage.