Tube / frost heater - where from on high street?

Have you tried a garden centre or Homebase/B&Q?

Out of town but should have stock this time of year.

edt: On the high street, Robert Dyas might have them
 
Does anyone know of the screwfix or toolstation ones have a thromostat, they dont say on their sites and they dont seem to know either having called them.

B&Q dont have any listed on their website

thanks
 
Have you looked for a greenhouse heater?

I bought one with a thermostat, designed for a greenhouse to come on at temperatures below +5 if you want. It is also a fan, so it circulates the air at the same time, and you can you use it as a conventional fan heater when you are staying on board if you choose.

I think it is called a Frost-Eeeze or something like that !
 
Never seen a tube heater with a thermostat, they reach a max temperature and sit there 24/7 at that temperature, a bit like a 120w or 180w light bulb and light bulbs dont have thermostats.
 
Ah ok, I presumed they had a thermostat to just come on when it got really cold, thanks I'll go to toolstation and grab a small one for near the engine space.
 
You could consider a small oil filled radiator. B&Q and others do a very small one, 800w it has two heat settings and is thermostatically controlled.
 
. The prob with modern tube heaters is that they are now built with a overheat thermostat built-in.Unfortunately the cheap chinese material used in the contacts oxidises and then you lose continuity.This happened to me a couple of years ago.I managed to get an old heater with no overheat thermostat in the tube.If fused properly a steel tube heater is not going to catch fire.If I bought a modern one I would short this out but for obvious reasons I cannot recommend you to do this.
 
Can I suggest you forget tube heaters as they are in-efficient. I know two boats with them and you might as well not switch them on.

B&Q do frost heaters at 200W ... tenner each, fully regulated :

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if you want more - there's the Dimplex Coldwatch 500W fully regulated job at about 40 quid from CPC and similar (Chandlers mark those up another tenner - but still worth it !)

Honest apart from under engine or bottom of wet-locker ... tubes are rubbish IMHO.

I use above to look after my boat interior while sitting out baltic winter. I have a weather station sensor in the cabin and display readout in the house kitchen window - so I don't even need to visit boat to know it's ok.

At moment ... Outside temp is -1C, boat cabin is 8.2C.
 
I wanted the same. I ended up using a 120W tube heater under the engine, wired through a frost stat. Bought the tube heater from Screwfix and the frost stat from plumbers works a treat! (wire it in so it switches the live to the heater) frost stat is not in the engine compartment.
 
Just bought 200w heater with thermostat from B&Q for £12, nice compact unit and seems to work well - keeps the chill off my cabin anyway!!
 
I have to fundamentally disagree. All electric heaters are 100% efficient. Tube heaters are deliberately low rated, however - 60W per foot length is traditional - to keep the surface temperature down, and a particular size might not give as much heat as you want or need, but that's nothing to do with efficiency.
 
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Just bought 200w heater with thermostat from B&Q for £12, nice compact unit and seems to work well - keeps the chill off my cabin anyway!!

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Is it same as I posted piccy of above ? Even with the 2 quid rise in price - well worth it. I have 2 of them and they work very well.
 
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