How in the heck do I heat my room?

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Adam

So my room is currently 52 degrees and dropping. The ceilings are high (around 12' in the highest spot) and I am having a HUGE problem heating it We just put shrink wrap over the door and window (I have an outside door leading, well, outside). My temperature is still dropping. I was heating with a quartz heater, that doesn't cut it when it's 9 degrees outside though. So I got a Lasko cyclonic heater, very nice heater, but doesn't do it either. My room was 44 with it last night. So I'm using a small ceramic heater right now, just to test it. How do I heat it, I can't think of anything else to do.

BTW: we heat w/ wood and it won't reach down to my room, a fan doesn't help, and leaving my door open helps, but its 52 and dropping with it open currently.

Answer
Tack a tightly woven blanket with a plastic bag on the door side over the door. Same with the window. If your electric won't blow run both heaters before you go to bed. Sleep on the couch if you have to when it's that cold. This is going to cost a fortune. You will need to figure out a more economical heating supply. Consider an franklin stove even electric baseboard heat. I'm guessing this is a basement bedroom. Are your walls concrete? if so you need to get the fiberglass panels. Do you have carpeting? Installing polyethylene under the carpet will act as a moisture barrier from the cold air coming up. You can also set a series of fans from the fireplace to the opening.

Another way to get heat down there is a passive hole. A grate on the upper floor that leads to your bedroom with a lever will also help to cool the house in the summer time.

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