On 05/12/2020 16:13, fred wrote:
On Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 3:45:57 PM UTC, Andrew wrote:
On 05/12/2020 12:42, fred wrote:
On Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 4:22:28 PM UTC, David WE Roberts (Google) wrote:
We have an outdoor area at the rear of the house which is a wooden deck
with a plastic sloping roof to keep (some of) the rain off.
I say "some of" because the rain is blowing in and almost reaching the
bifolds.

The deck/roof is roughly 2.3 metres deep and 2.5 metres high.

I was contemplating adding some heating to allow us to sit out on cold
clear days so I am looking for advice.
There are weather proof 13 Amp sockets within the area of this veranda.

The obvious solution seems to be IR heaters high up the wall or on the
rafters below the roof.

I've started looking at IR heaters and there is a vast range of prices for
things which look remarkable similar, from around £70 to £300 for 1.5 kW
wall mounted strips.

I am slightly bemused that these trendy modern IR heaters look remarkably
like the electric wall heaters that used to be found in bathrooms, but I
suspect that the same idea is in use - direct heat onto the body instead
of trying to warm the whole room. Just more modern technology in the heat
source.

Do these things work effectively?

The big sod off gas ones found outside pubs do seem to chuck out some
heat, but I am assuming that bottled gas is no cheaper than mains
electricity.

Free standing might make them also work in the shed but I'm not sure that
will work in practice, and permanently mounted seems a much neater
solution.

Cheers


Dave R


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These type of heaters are very common on the continent in pavement cafes but they remind me of an old Vauxhall car I had where the heater would roast your left foot while the right foot froze. Streuth we accepted some dire cars in days gone by

That applies to all cars. The footwell outlet from the heater is going
to blow hot air on the left foot, and your front passengers left foot,
because of the location of the heater.


Have you been in a modern car ???? My car as 4 individually independent control zones

Do you have those supermarket plastic screens installed to
make them genuinely 'independent' ?.

If you have 5 people on board that makes 10 feet, but you still
only have 4 'zones'.