Anyone using ambient heat only successfully?

so I wanted to bump this thread as I am also interested in this method. I'm going to basically be starting from scratch as I am going to be rebuilding all of my racks with home depot pvc and I just moved last year so I need to build a dedicated snake room again, which the plan right now is to make two small bedrooms into one reptile room with a sink and all the goodies. I had a nice multi thousand dollar plan in my head of how I was going to run all the thermostats in wall, but then I thought why not just heat the room?

I know others have been successful with it. I can insulate it on all 4 sides + top and bottom. It might not be as efficient as heating with tape, but how long until I make my money back from all the heat tape and thermostats up front cost? also summer time would basically be free to heat, regulate by opening windows and if it gets too hot, I would shut the windows and have a fan to suck in air from the house. Racks are far easier to build when they don't have heat. I got my humidity in the room up now thanks to member suggestions, so i'm not spraying cages anymore. The safety factor appeals to me also, a room heater is going to have a hell of a time cooking my snakes vs flewwatt in the event of t-stat stuck on failure. Even with a mechanically protected herpstat... it has happened, no matter how rare

so is there anyone who cares to share their methods? my first questions would be what temp do you keep the room at and I always just let the snakes choose what temps they want with a gradient, do I have to be conscious of that just having one temp?

So, I have unplugged all of my UTH and heat lamps, and I am just letting the oil heater provide an ambient temp that peaks to about 84 during the hottest part of the day, and falls to 80 over night. So far my animals have seemed to love it. All have been digesting well, and seem to be much more active and alert. They utilize more of their enclosure space, and their skin seems more hydrated.

As of now I highly recommend this technique. I love the flexibility of being able to house snakes in variable sized tubs without having to worry about heat tape or a rack setup.

One heating device, and one thermostat, bam youre done.

I would just make sure there's a second t-stat backing up the first one. If you heard about Danny Steele's incident last month, he was running ambient room heat, which is why his losses are so devastating - the whole room overheated, not just a rack.

I agree regulation is important. However, in my own circumstance, my oil heater, even at full blast, does not get the room past about 86, even with temps in the 60s-70s outside.

Without the thermostat, I turned it all the way up just to see its limits while I was in the room, and it didn't overheat.. Once temperatures get warmer in the spring/summer I probably will use it very little and let the natural heat do the job.

I have been picking Sans cera brain about ambient room heating, is there any other breeders you found that also use this method for a couple years? Wanted to get some more perspectives.