When purchasing an electric heater for either your home or your garage you are looking for a way to heat the area in the most energy efficient way possible. If you need an electric heater you are probably looking to heat or warm a specific area of your home and by doing so you are already becoming more energy efficient.
This is true because using a portable type of electric heater gives you the ability to raise the thermostat on your home's main energy sources such as central heating. Because with a central heating system you are heating the entire home and not just the rooms you and your family are occupying. So even by raising the thermostat 3 or 4 degrees can make a huge impact on your overall energy use and consumption.
By implementing an electric heater you can move the heater as you leave or enter a specific room. So how do you make sure that an electric heater you use in your home or garage is energy efficient? Start by finding the correct size heater for the specific room you will be heating. For example if you are going to use an electric garage heater there is no need to purchase a heater that will heat 900 square feet if your garage is only 500 square feet. More is not better in this particular case it is just a waste.
Next take a look at what type of features the heater offers. Many of the newer models offer either a built in thermostat or a programmable thermostat. This will help you to maintain a comfortable temperature by alleviating any fluctuation of temperature in the room. A feature like this can also help you to turn off the heater when it is not in use by setting a specific time for the heater to turn off.
This can be an especially useful feature in electric garage heaters as often times we may forget that they are running and may run unnecessarily. Another thing to consider when making your purchase is how the heated air is circulated throughout the room. Once the air has been heated it is important that it be effectively distributed in the room so look for a heater that has a built in fan that helps distributes the air properly. Even distribution alleviates some of the problems associated with older models that gave the rooms hot and cold spots.
One thing you should also know about energy efficient electric heaters is that almost every manufacturer has now take the time to build in several types of safety features. Almost all of them incorporate some sort of automatic shut off system if the heater should actually be knocked over and some, if not most, also have an overheating shut off which will turn the heater off it is blocked or just overheating from non recommended continuous usage.
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