It’s been hard painting in the basement now that the weather is below twenty degrees. I’ve got a space heater (it’s okay, it’s not a fire-setting space heater) and it just isn’t doing the job (probably because it’s not a fire-setting space heater).
Back upstairs, I got in to bed the other night and plugged in my heating pad to heat my feet, which were oddly cold, and thought, wouldn’t it be neat if they had full body sized heating pads? I eventually realized they do and they are called electric blankets.
I am unfamiliar with electric blankets: they were not used in our house when I was growing up (too new-fangled and suspect). I certainly don’t want to be bundled up in an electric blanket post-menopause, but it occurred to me I could lay an electric blanket under my chair in the basement and it would be like radiant flooring. Toasty on the feet, and then the heat would rise. And the basement hasn’t flooded lately (even though there were some torrential rains) so no danger of shorting everything.
I am certain there is some reason this is a bad idea. Do people do this? Use an electric blanket for a heated floor? Is that a bad plan?