A bedroom heater quiet enough to sleep beside

Warm at bedtime, cool by morning

Sleep research and plain experience agree: most people sleep best in a cool room but hate getting into a cold bed. Set RapidHeat to warm the room for the first hour or two, and let the timer shut it off so the room drifts back down overnight.

The thermostat means it is not blasting heat the whole time either — once the room hits your number, the element cuts out and the fan barely turns over.

Why it works in a bedroom

• Under 30 dB, no rattle, no clicking thermostat
• No glowing element to light up a dark room
• 1 to 12 hour timer for overnight shut-off
• Remote, so you never leave the bed to change it
• Tip-over shut-off matters most in a dark room

Nurseries and kids' rooms

Cool-touch housing and automatic cut-outs make it far safer than a coil heater, but common sense still applies: place it out of reach, keep a metre of clear space, never drape anything over it, and use the thermostat rather than the maximum setting.

Bedroom heater safety

• Plug straight into a wall outlet, never an extension cord or power bar
• Keep a metre of clear space in front of the grille
• Never cover the unit or use it to dry clothes
• Use the 1–12 hour timer instead of leaving it running unattended
• Overheat cut-out and tip-over shut-off do the rest automatically

Why bedrooms are the coldest room in a Canadian house

Bedrooms are usually furthest from the furnace, often above a garage or on an exterior corner, and the doors stay shut. Warm air from the rest of the house never reaches them, so the room sits two to four degrees below the thermostat setting no matter how hard the furnace works.

Raising the whole-house thermostat to fix one bedroom means heating every other room as well, which is why a single thermostat-controlled heater in that room is almost always the cheaper fix.

Using a heater safely in a bedroom

• Set the 1–12 hour timer to warm the room before bed and shut off after you fall asleep
• Plug directly into a wall outlet — never an extension cord or power bar
• Keep a metre of clear space; no bedding, curtains or clothing near the grille
• Place it on a hard, level surface, not on carpet pile or a rug edge where it can tip
• Use the lowest comfortable setting — most people sleep better at 17–19°C

What it costs to warm a bedroom

An hour before bed and an hour in the morning is roughly two hours a day, which at 0.75 kWh an hour is about 45 kWh a month — around $3.50 in Quebec and $8.50 in Nova Scotia.

The table below shows the four-hour-a-day figure for every province if you use it more heavily.