It was Daughter No. 3, calling from her house at our family farm. Her tone was serious but not panicked: The furnace in her ...

Learn more When central heating struggles to adequately reach all the corners of your house, the best space heaters excel at supplying focused warmth in poorly insulated or drafty areas.

You can always try turning up the thermostat even more, or you can use a space heater to help warm up the room without overheating the whole house. In fact, keeping the thermostat low and using a ...

And she had an oil-filled electric heater she could plug in. It wasn’t enough to heat a whole house, but it was a start. We also had one of those heaters at our house, so I drove the hour and a ...