Electric fireplaces work much like space heaters to provide heat to your home, but can an electric fireplace really heat a room?

Using an electric fireplace is a great way to heat a room. From testing, an electric fireplace was able to increase the temperature within a room by 13.5°F (7.5°C) within 4 hours.

I bought my electric fireplace to use both as a heater for my home, and as a way to enjoy the view of a fire without having to build and maintain a real fire.

It isn’t always necessary to turn on the central heating when staying in one room in your home for an extended period of time. I therefore wanted to know how much my electric fireplace to could warm a room by in my home.

I’ve undertaken a number of different tests to see how well an electric fireplace can heat a room, as well as whether an electric fireplace can heat a whole home.

I used my living room as the basis for my tests. It has a large open fireplace with a nearby electric wall socket that allows me to locate an electric fireplace inside of the open fireplace.

Here’s what my electric fireplace looks like inside my living room fireplace:

This is the freestanding electric fireplace that has been used in my tests, and is an appliance that has been designed to look like a wood burning stove. The fireplace has two heat settings:

• Low heat setting that has a power of 925W.
• High heat setting that has a power of 1850W.

The tests were undertaken in my living room that has a size of 160 sq. m. (15m2), with dimensions of 13.5ft (4.1m) x 12.1 (3.7m). It’s a modest sized room that isn’t too big or too small.

There is one door to the room, and all of the windows in the room were closed during the tests.