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Originally Posted by S-cort
You are best off using the gas furnace and supplementing with electric space heaters as little as possible.
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I'll match that and see you one better: I use those yellow halogen worklights in the winter as "extreme zone heating" and besides the fact that they throw out lots of nice heat, they throw lots of light too thus enabling me to keep the regular- and not very good at emitting heat- lighting off.
Disclaimer: This works great for me but do it at your own risk: Take the glass out of the worklamps and replace that with screen for better heat transfer with some small measure of safety retained.
I don't like the idea of using regular ceiling lighting for heat because heat rises and my ceiling and attic get heated quite enough already. And, they are too far away to feel any of their heat. In fact, I got the idea for using the worklamps as zone heaters because I had been considering adding a heatlamp or heated floor to my bathroom when I had the insight that I didn't want my heat source up above, trying to run heat downward. So I place them on the floor or on a countertop; when the heat rises up and out I can really feel it. This radiant heat is actually nicer- feels warmer- than what space heaters put out, radiant or fan-assisted.