I saw advertisements on a Thai forum how to heat up my house without spending a fortune. That is easy.... I just turn off the AC's ????

 

Have a nice weekend.

Yes, but it can get pretty chilly up north when the cool season comes around.

Particularly if live in an old wooden house, are of a certain age and you have no meat on your bones.

 

Jan - Mar. Thailand

Apl - Jun. Southern Italy

Jul -  Sep. Thailand

Oct - Dec. Southern Italy. Extra Cardy if needed.

40 gallon steel drums full off wood does nice toast too. 

Newer Air-cons have a heat pump function which enables them to heat running the compressor vice-versa instead of cooling

Jumpers, hats and gloves, huddling around charcoal braziers is the norm for the winter around my area. It can get damn cold.

With great difficulty - they are not designed to retain heat. Can be unpleasant before dawn in December and January in the North. 

 

For the last few years every year I say I'll buy a heater and I never do, though. 

In Chiang Mai, on the coolest days of the year, we can have 16 deg C outside and 19 deg C inhouse. Those few days I simply wear a pullover or a light jacket until it gets a bit warmer towards noon. 

1 hour ago, Scott Tracy said:

Jumpers, hats and gloves, huddling around charcoal braziers is the norm for the winter around my area. It can get damn cold.

Those charcoal braziers result in a number of asphyxiations in Thailand each year.  You just can't use one in a closed off room or you start creating carbon monoxide and then it is good night forever.  People will continue to use them, however, because charcoal and a metal charcoal BBQ or clay charcoal stove are a cheap way of heating.

 

One safe way, but more expensive way, is to use an "electric room heater".  Search Lazada for what I put in quotes and you will find a number of them for offer.  A decent Heier electric heater for 20 m² is about 3000 Bt, and of course the electricity costs more money.

1 hour ago, HarrySeaman said:

Those charcoal braziers result in a number of asphyxiations in Thailand each year.  You just can't use one in a closed off room or you start creating carbon monoxide and then it is good night forever.  People will continue to use them, however, because charcoal and a metal charcoal BBQ or clay charcoal stove are a cheap way of heating.

 

One safe way, but more expensive way, is to use an "electric room heater".  Search Lazada for what I put in quotes and you will find a number of them for offer.  A decent Heier electric heater for 20 m² is about 3000 Bt, and of course the electricity costs more money.

power is cheap here, i have an electric heater and a gas heater , used it for past 25 years when needed just leave windows open a little

I tell the wife she's fat. Man it gets hot in my house 

This is what you need, a gas log fire.

Nearly time to fire it up again, that's after I move all the wifey thinggies.

Everytime a space is not used it gets covered in pot plants and things. Same with the outside BBQ. ????

Never quite got that cold, but my contingency plan would be to move my small electric oven into say the living room, and use that, could even bake spuds, sit back and watch tv. towering inferno  might help.

So No one knows of any store that sells A/C with heat pumps.

2 hours ago, Dickp said:

So No one knows of any store that sells A/C with heat pumps.

I have a fantastic Daikin reverse heat and aircon which is fantastic , in France ! Both work well as it gets pretty hot here ( Cannes) in summer around 33/35c and can be 12/ 15 in winter and less in mornings and night. I’m sure direct questions to Daikin would tell you where they sell. I was in the Malaysian highlands a few years ago and it would have been very cold without night time heating. 
Also north Thailand , on a 3 night treck  40 years ago I was freezing at night and early morning. 

How do people heat up their homes? 

Easy - 

bring the Mia noi home and introduce her to the wife.

The 4 to 6 weeks of cool season in udon thani was always welcome.

 

Low teens Celsius maybe 9 10 11, one week as the very lowest.

 

Daytime in the twenties lovely night time, simply cuddle up.

 

On topic, if there really is one, electric oil filled radiators, sold here and work fine.

 

 

 

6 or 7 years ago it was brutal cold in Isaan for a few weeks… that year is when bought new MUX and I looked and looked how to turn on the heater…. No one… It was still dark and had an hour drive to Udon Thani…only have one light jacket and someone borrowed it .. thankfully brought it back a year later …. .. lately winters have been nice… 

On 9/24/2022 at 6:29 PM, 1sickpuppy said:

power is cheap here, i have an electric heater and a gas heater , used it for past 25 years when needed just leave windows open a little

The key here is that you "leave the windows open a little". 

 

It is the people, Thai, or elsewhere, who don't do that.  They don't want the source of cold air so they close all the house or car windows and wind up asphyxiating themselves.

 

Regardless of the intelligence ever underestimate the effect of ignorance, especially purposeful blind ignorance.