The first time you light one, you must heat the coil with a lighter or another heater to vaporize incoming fuel, then it can sustain itself by wicking fluid up from the reservoir jar. Relighting ...

It’s particularly difficult for those who rely on a wood stove to escape the feeling that perhaps most of that hard-won heat may be whistling up the chimney rather than keeping them warm.

However, fireplaces aren’t a particularly efficient source of heat, especially in chilly temperatures. And electric fireplaces, space heaters, and other kinds of supplementary heat can leave you ...

households are on the search for the most cost-effective way of heating. So which is cheaper, a fan heater or an oil heater? Below we’ll figure this out. But first, consider our other articles ...

If you like the idea of wood heat but aren't keen on maintaining a wood pile or cleaning and loading wood into a stove, you ...

Hydronic baseboard radiators have many of the same pros and cons as in-floor radiant heating but shouldn’t be confused with electric baseboard heaters, which are essentially a type of space heater.

Learn more› By Thom Dunn Thom Dunn is a writer focusing on home heating and cooling. He once blew up a power strip with a space heater and a Marshall half-stack. New Pick We’ve added the De ...

While you may be familiar with the convection space heaters used for decades, for more direct heat, infrared heaters are the better portable heating option. We discussed infrared technology with ...

We've tested electric heaters from Argos, DeLonghi, Dimplex, Dyson, Russell Hobbs and more, including electric wall heaters, fan heaters, oil heaters and convectors. We discovered which heat up a ...

(In the peak heat of summer, the difference between cooking on an induction cooktop and cooking on a gas stove is unmistakable.) And induction and radiant-electric cooktops or ranges can run on ...