Bloody ridiculous

[JamesPa]

2 hours ago, JamesPa said:

SOFAIK there is no good way to heat any building that has the thermal characteristics of a tent.   There are only various flavours of bad ways!  Like patio heaters, you are basically on to a loser!

I should add that the argument for radiant heating (made also by people who sell 'infrared wallpaper' and the like) is that it makes you feel warm (because your skin does warm up), even though the air temperature isnt warm - much like going outside on a sunny, cold day (we have had a few of those recently!). 

 

In a tent, or a building that has the the thermal characteristics of a tent (such as that described by @Iceverge above), your chances of heating the building are similar to your chances of heating a patio. So you might as well give up and instead heat the person.  Obviously I'm being a bit extreme here, but underneath the deliberately extreme position is perhaps a grain of truth.  The suggestion I am floating is that the strategy for heating a very lossy building may be different to that for the majority of our housing stock (which may be poor, but isn't generally that poor).

[Beelbeebub]

13 hours ago, JamesPa said:

So you might as well give up and instead heat the person. 

TBH in that sort of property warm clothing, electric blankets and possibly a 4 poster bed with heavy curtains are your best bet.

 

Basically a victorian approach (apart from the electric blanket)

[SteamyTea]

2 hours ago, Beelbeebub said:

apart from the electric blanket

And Rickets, Cholera, Typhoid, Scarlet fever, typhus and Smallpox.

 

But the bed idea shows promise.