Homemade solarium - patio heaters

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who's recently started thinking about this..! I've thought about it every winter for the last few years, but not knowing quite how to go about it has put me off. I am looking at these heaters https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_I...er_Exterior/index.html#Quartz_Heater_HEPA1300
With the idea of getting 2, and mounting either side of a stable. I just wasn't sure how high they would need to be to a) be effective without b) cooking the horse. The empty stable I have in mind, which would be easy to fit them too, has a ceiling which isn't that high (will have to measure, but guesstimating around 7-8 foot). As it would only be used for the solarium, not as a stable, I figured it would be ok to have them lower. I might be wrong. The other alternative is either side of the walkway in the middle of the barn, but that would be a bit annoying when other people want to get past.

In the first instance, can anyone tell me what sort of range this type of lamp has? As in, how high/far apart is ideal to be effective without being too hot?

p.s. this is just to dry off after baths, wouldn't be left on for longer than half an hour really.

TIA!
 
I have 2 of these, they don't half take the chill off.

One is each side of the grooming parlour, a 10ft X 12 ft space. Remember that they work only where the light falls, so make sure they fall either side of the horse when the horse stands in their favourite place.

I use just one on unless I am washing or clipping, then we have a luxurious 2 lamp oven.

No fuss, cheap.

One thing, don't touch the bulb when installing as it makes it not work!
 
I have much larger pub garden type things about three feet long two over the wash area one in each of three of the boxes .
Marvellous the horses love them and so do we .
 
We have two of these on the back of the wash box - they are super easy to attach to the wall and have 3 heat settings - they work perfectly for what we want!

https://www.primrose.co.uk/-p-86132...uHywJrQn_8llxy4DXoazYVeHPY22wNuIaAuo8EALw_wcB

It actually heats/ keeps the wash box nice and warm so don't need to faff around with rugs when clipping, even in the coldest weather! The only thing i would change is they are currently both attached to the rear wall, we keep talking about moving them to one eitherside which would work better but no one has got round to it yet!
 
LeannePip said:
We have two of these on the back of the wash box - they are super easy to attach to the wall and have 3 heat settings - they work perfectly for what we want!

https://www.primrose.co.uk/-p-86132...uHywJrQn_8llxy4DXoazYVeHPY22wNuIaAuo8EALw_wcB

It actually heats/ keeps the wash box nice and warm so don't need to faff around with rugs when clipping, even in the coldest weather! The only thing i would change is they are currently both attached to the rear wall, we keep talking about moving them to one eitherside which would work better but no one has got round to it yet!
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When I was a teenager I had something very similar to this in my bedroom before central heating!
 
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