You can find many different types of portable space heaters. Each will have its own disadvantages and advantages. If you know what you need in a heater, then you research and find out which kind would be the best space heater for you. When you look into the different kinds of heaters out there, you will be able to figure out which will do the best job for you.

Fuel space heaters use kerosene or propane. These are good when you lose electricity, like in a storm. They are great when used on camping trips or for outdoor patios. Notice the use of the word, outdoor. Fuel space heaters are dangerous indoors because they can cause carbon monoxide poisoning. They should only be used outside or in well ventilated areas.

Portable space heaters work best when you want to heat up one room. Don't waste electricity heating up the areas in your home that you don't use much. You can turn the overall temperature down in your home and use a space heater to heat up the rooms that you do use, when you use them. Space heaters can make the rooms you do use cozier.

Because of the increasing cost of gas and kerosene, people are looking to electric room heaters as a heating alternative. Portable electric heaters are at their best when heating smaller rooms. Radiant and convection heaters are considered the most efficient and safest. They are a type of electric heater. Electric room heaters emit 100 percent of the energy consumed. The newer models of radiant and convection heaters do not get hot on the outside so they are not as dangerous to children and pets. If you use an electric heater with a fan, you can heat a large room quickly and easily.

Room heaters come in a wide variety. You can get a small radiant heater that is just big enough to heat up your legs or you can get an electric heater that looks like a fireplace. Keep in mind that you don't have to spend a lot of money to get a good heater. Check around and figure out which one will do the job for you.

Quartz infrared space heaters are radiant heaters and are very efficient. The heat from infrared heaters is similar to the heat generated by the sun. It only takes about five minutes to heat the room and the outside of the heater does not get hot. When using an infrared heater the air stays dry because it is not burning up the oxygen in the air.

To heat a garage or other outdoor or separate building you should think about getting a portable room heater. If you have a heat pump type in your house you probably have gotten used to that ever present chill in the air. A radiant room heater makes you toasty in your home - something a heat pump can't do.