Those infra red heaters blast out a lot of heat, get one. The ceramic air heaters and the radiators types are next to useless, don’t both with them mostly.
I wear ski trousers at home and a few layers with a body warmer and socks, works well generally. Then just stay in the bedroom or office more and heat that is easier.
We were living on a hillside in Taichung for a few years where it blew a gale all winter, so a move to the ‘lowlands’ is easier.
i use a ceramic heater with blankets. works ok. though the way my apartment is positioned seemed to make it warmer than other places.inside i use a sweater or jacket. Maybe a ski cap if it’s cold enough. when outside, consider a mask of some kind to block the wind and protect your face.
[quote=“tommy525”][quote=“Icon”][quote=“afterspivak”]Yup. Dressing correctly is the key here. And also warming up from within, with your preferred choice of hot beverages! 
Guy[/quote]
Isn’t it sad, though, to dress up as an artic explorer when you are only going to work?[/quote]
Only going to work? I remember cold front days when it was 4c INSIDE my apartment in Wanli !!
I was dressed like I was in Antartica and I was in my living room. And watching tv while under covers on the sofa. After turning on the kerosene heater and three recirculationg oil heaters, the 30 ping apartment only got up to 8c !
The concrete apartments just suck away heat.
HEre in CAlif its cold out but inside its a toasty 22c.[/quote]
According to architects concrete is a good insulator. Ha! :loco:
[quote=“MJB”]Well…I’ve got 76pings to heat. I hate winter with a passion. Currently, the heating regimen is as follows.
Downstairs, 25000BTU kerosene heater and 4,000watt 240V electric wall heater. It’s 24c in my living room and 7c outside.
Upstairs, the combination of rising heat has raised the ambient temp to 20 with nothing up there. Bedroom is currently warming up with 3,000watt/220v 15 rib oil heater and is 23c.
If I wasn’t paying 3times for heating what I would back home I’d almost swear I’m in a centrally heated home. I live up on a very exposed hilltop in Southern Taoyuan county and it gets COLD up here.
T-shirt and shorts…Ahhhh[/quote]
Get some air heat pumps …
[quote=“Belgian Pie”][quote=“MJB”]Well…I’ve got 76pings to heat. I hate winter with a passion. Currently, the heating regimen is as follows.
Downstairs, 25000BTU kerosene heater and 4,000watt 240V electric wall heater. It’s 24c in my living room and 7c outside.
Upstairs, the combination of rising heat has raised the ambient temp to 20 with nothing up there. Bedroom is currently warming up with 3,000watt/220v 15 rib oil heater and is 23c.
If I wasn’t paying 3times for heating what I would back home I’d almost swear I’m in a centrally heated home. I live up on a very exposed hilltop in Southern Taoyuan county and it gets COLD up here.
T-shirt and shorts…Ahhhh[/quote]
Get some air heat pumps …
heatpump-reviews.com/air-sou … -pump.html[/quote]
I am currently wondering if I am to sign a rental agreement on a place which has exactly that. I will likely retire most of my trusty old kerosene heaters who have served me well.
Some buildings in Taipei has this for the whole building, you know.
I researched a little after I saw some space heaters at Carrefour … Thomson has a ‘tankless electric film heater’ on sale there. What is the heat output of electric film heaters? It’s not like the IR heaters, it’s flat, thin, like (paper) film. 1000W.
PC home24 has them too, from Maytag.
According to what I read, it’s more used in floor heating.
You need a kotatsu and an oil filled radiator.
It’s freezing in the UK now. Icy cars and everything!
If you have a decent hair dryer, turn it on hot just before hitting the shower, it will heat the bathroom (if it’s a small one and door closed), then when finished and dried off with a towel you can blow dry and heat up your body before hurrying into your clothes.
[quote=“Belgian Pie”][quote=“tommy525”][quote=“Icon”][quote=“afterspivak”]Yup. Dressing correctly is the key here. And also warming up from within, with your preferred choice of hot beverages!
Guy[/quote]
Isn’t it sad, though, to dress up as an artic explorer when you are only going to work?[/quote]
Only going to work? I remember cold front days when it was 4c INSIDE my apartment in Wanli !!
I was dressed like I was in Antartica and I was in my living room. And watching tv while under covers on the sofa. After turning on the kerosene heater and three recirculationg oil heaters, the 30 ping apartment only got up to 8c !
The concrete apartments just suck away heat.
HEre in CAlif its cold out but inside its a toasty 22c.[/quote]
According to architects concrete is a good insulator. Ha! :loco:[/quote]
It’s interesting isn’t it, how come that doesn’t work in practice?
Its a singular Taiwan experience. Waking up in your bed (with ski cap on) weighed down with a very heavy comforter and feeling the freezing air in your bedroom with one hand. Seeing your breath.
Then counting down from ten to jump from your warm bed to the shower.
It feels practically subzero the mad dash from bedroom to bathroom. And finally relief as the hot water starts coming out. Taking a quick hot shower, and then toweling off and then back to the deep freeze of your bedroom to put on clothes just seemingly seconds before your whole body freezes over.
You never feel so ALIVE I tell you…
What works for me is my programmable coffeemaker, mugs, sugar, cream on my bed stand. The good smell of hot coffee wakes me up. I sit on my bed, sip slowly the hot coffee and then I am good to go. I take a hot shower, get dressed, feed Gal (my old rabbit), get my stuff and go to school. A good coffeemaker makes the winter bearable for me.
Taipei 10am and dark enough from grey clouds to be 7pm at night.
Can’t get up. Been in bed awake over 2 hours. Pets are also not moving. Only snores are heard.
Turned on the heater to see if when it warms up a bit, I have enough courage to face the day. Check, I’m hungry!
[quote=“tommy525”]Its a singular Taiwan experience. Waking up in your bed (with ski cap on) weighed down with a very heavy comforter and feeling the freezing air in your bedroom with one hand. Seeing your breath.
Then counting down from ten to jump from your warm bed to the shower.
It feels practically subzero the mad dash from bedroom to bathroom. And finally relief as the hot water starts coming out. Taking a quick hot shower, and then toweling off and then back to the deep freeze of your bedroom to put on clothes just seemingly seconds before your whole body freezes over.
You never feel so ALIVE I tell you…[/quote]
Ya, and in the summer heaters and hot water are replaced by ac and cold water.
YES, there is nothing that says SUMMER until you start that first Cold Shower. Going from a burning hot ember in the 39c weather to mountain spring freshness.
You DO feel ALIVE in Taiwan. That you DO. Especially when you survive another quake.
[quote=“headhonchoII”][quote=“Belgian Pie”][quote=“tommy525”][quote=“Icon”][quote=“afterspivak”]Yup. Dressing correctly is the key here. And also warming up from within, with your preferred choice of hot beverages!
Guy[/quote]
Isn’t it sad, though, to dress up as an artic explorer when you are only going to work?[/quote]
Only going to work? I remember cold front days when it was 4c INSIDE my apartment in Wanli !!
I was dressed like I was in Antartica and I was in my living room. And watching tv while under covers on the sofa. After turning on the kerosene heater and three recirculationg oil heaters, the 30 ping apartment only got up to 8c !
The concrete apartments just suck away heat.
HEre in CAlif its cold out but inside its a toasty 22c.[/quote]
According to architects concrete is a good insulator. Ha! :loco:[/quote]
It’s interesting isn’t it, how come that doesn’t work in practice?[/quote]
It actually works pretty well in my newish apartment, which has relatively thick walls and better quality window frames. I think a lot of the problem in older apartments (aside from the complete lack of insulation) is the incredibly shoddy, drafty window frames.
High quality flats are usually much warmer than the cheaper ones. Really, I live in one now, and we have had the heater on in the bedroom when it was coldest, and then only had the ker heater going a handful of times.
My new flat which I will move into in a month on a 5 year lease has a HVAC system, so heating is not an issue any more.
[quote=“Dr. Milker”][quote=“headhonchoII”][quote=“Belgian Pie”][quote=“tommy525”][quote=“Icon”][quote=“afterspivak”]Yup. Dressing correctly is the key here. And also warming up from within, with your preferred choice of hot beverages!
Guy[/quote]
Isn’t it sad, though, to dress up as an artic explorer when you are only going to work?[/quote]
Only going to work? I remember cold front days when it was 4c INSIDE my apartment in Wanli !!
I was dressed like I was in Antartica and I was in my living room. And watching tv while under covers on the sofa. After turning on the kerosene heater and three recirculationg oil heaters, the 30 ping apartment only got up to 8c !
The concrete apartments just suck away heat.
HEre in CAlif its cold out but inside its a toasty 22c.[/quote]
According to architects concrete is a good insulator. Ha! :loco:[/quote]
It’s interesting isn’t it, how come that doesn’t work in practice?[/quote]
It actually works pretty well in my newish apartment, which has relatively thick walls and better quality window frames. I think a lot of the problem in older apartments (aside from the complete lack of insulation) is the incredibly shoddy, drafty window frames.[/quote]
+1, you see the million dollar flats with their original 30-40 year old cheap ass window frames with flimsy glass panels still in place. sometimes artfully covered with metal bars of course.
Visited a pal at the new Chengda dorms. They have dual ACs, so the rooms are really cozy…
Meanwhile, me, at home, I did not get out of my jammies all day long. Switching from oil radiator to ceramic heater for sleeptime.
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Help!!!I am freezing! Icy hands, icy nose, toes about to fall off…
Note: It say 13 degrees outside temperature, 17 degrees indoors.