Choosing the best heating appliances to use to supplement the central heating in a house should be done after doing some research into the most efficient heaters on the market. Some older houses have electric fires which radiate heat into the room but cost a lot to run.          Others may have coal effect fires that have a fan heater in them which blows warm air into the room. Neither of these two heating appliances are a very efficient way to heat a room and cost a huge amount to run.

Oil filled radiators are another popular choice for heating a room and although better than an electric fire they still use a lot of electricity. Usually, they are fitted with a thermostatic control so the temperature of the room can be set, and the appliance will turn on and off as it needs to, keeping the room at the desired temperature.

A good choice of heating appliance to either supplement the central heating or warm up the people in the room is an infrared fire. These appliances are small and portable so can easily be moved from room to room. They can be set to use less than half a kilowatt of power on the lowest setting and only just over a kilowatt on the highest setting meaning they are cheap to run.