I remember many years ago in a former life I once stayed in a hotel in Egypt where the airconditioner had a heat setting.

Very useful as the hot desert days can get quite cold at night.

Are any such units available in Thailand?

:-)

Had one in Portugal, bill for the electric was very high, much cheaper to buy a portable bottled gas heater.

Tried a few years ago to work out the price in Thai Baht,

Heater air conditioner between 3 - 4,000 baht per month

1 gas bottle todays price is 300 baht, maybe if very cold would need 2 in a month. [that is getting the shop to deliver, cheaper still taking the bottle and refilling yourself]

Edited December 26, 201114 yr by ignis

Both LG and Mitsibuchi have inverter units with heating.

Sure available. A fellow german has one here in Chum Phae (upper Isaan) where you can really use it!

Quite certain they can be had here but is it worth the added expense of the machine and the electric? Go with gas or have a bbq in the living room.

Must be possible.

I know some of the 5 star hotels with central air-conditioning systems have such units....with a heating position...on the control panel switch for hot air.

I've used that position before...when for whatever reason the central air conditioning was set to below 60 degrees (fahrenheit, I mean).

But I imagine those units would be too expensive for private use in your own home.

When it's cold I go into my car which has a heater/air conditioner. .

Reversible air-con units, to use the proper name, are widely if not universally fitted in Europe. I had three, which we used for cooling in the summer and heating in the spring and autumn when the oil-fired central heating was not in use. Because they are heat pumps rather than heat generating devices they are very economical and normally produce about three times as much heat as the electricity they consume. Of course if you can buy gas for one third the price of electricity then there isnt a lot of point, except perhaps the convenience of not having to buy gas or have a gas heater. Where I was gas cost more than electricity.

They become ineffective at very low temperatures but are ideal for what in Europe would be described as mid-season temperatures, which would equate to winter temperatures here.

Thank Yu'all

Some information for me to work on.

Quite certain they can be had here but is it worth the added expense of the machine and the electric? Go with gas or have a bbq in the living room.

Trouble with gas, unless you have a proper flue/chimney you'll get a lot of condensation in the room and of course a side effect you can kill yourself :-(

When it's cold I go into my car which has a heater/air conditioner. .

Must be lonely out there :-)

What car have you got? Thought most cars don't have heaters.

:-)

Thank Yu'all

Some information for me to work on.

Quite certain they can be had here but is it worth the added expense of the machine and the electric? Go with gas or have a bbq in the living room.

Trouble with gas, unless you have a proper flue/chimney you'll get a lot of condensation in the room and of course a side effect you can kill yourself :-(

When it's cold I go into my car which has a heater/air conditioner. .

Must be lonely out there :-)

What car have you got? Thought most cars don't have heaters.

:-)

A Japanese imported car.

Not lonely but isolated - another reason I go there sometimes.

Not lonely but isolated - another reason I go there sometimes.

I've always liked the American "Den" idea. A room in the house (preferably sound proofed) that is just yours.

Anyone entering without invitation faces DEATH

:-)

Isn't there anywhere in Thailand one can buy a one bar electric fire or fan-powered heater of the kind readily available in Europe? I certainly haven't been able to find one. Neither have any of my Thai and falang friends who are starting to feel the winter chill. Looks like a potential niche market for some enterprising soul.

What car have you got? Thought most cars don't have heaters.

I have a fairly new Mazda 2 assembled in Thailand and it has a heater.

Used it about three or four times in the last two weeks.

dam_n cool in upcountry!

What car have you got? Thought most cars don't have heaters.

I have a fairly new Mazda 2 assembled in Thailand and it has a heater.

Used it about three or four times in the last two weeks.

dam_n cool in upcountry!

Yes I noticed that in another thread - Seems like the only one available

:-(

Reversible air-con units, to use the proper name, are widely if not universally fitted in Europe.

Maybe proper name in Europe, but in N. America, they're called only "heat pumps." You can do your research using both terms.

"Heat pumps have the ability to move thermal energy from one environment to another, and in either direction. This allows the heat pump to effectively bring thermal energy into an occupied space, or to take it out. In practice, this is always done in the opposite direction of a temperature gradient. A heat pump works in the same manner as an ordinary air conditioner (A/C), which itself is a type of heat pump. In the warming mode for a space, a heat pump effectively reverses a refrigeration unit so that the warm radiator is inside the space, rather than outside."

[Wikipedia on Heat Pumps]

Global House in Chiang Mai had some oil filled electric heaters a few months back. Now that it is cool, they probably have none.