A badly positioned electric heater will never heat a room effectively – here are the best spots in the room to ensure you benefit from it the most

A small electric fan heater on the floor in a living room in front of a light blue sofa with dark blue and yellow cushions.

Electric heaters can be a great way to give a room a blast of heat quickly and efficiently and are beloved of many homeowners who work from home and really feel the chill in winter (myself included).

That said, even the best electric heaters need to be positioned correctly if you want to get the very most out of them – they obviously use electricity to run and will therefore be adding to your energy bills so you want to make sure you are using them most efficiently and aren't wasting any of the heat they emit.