Space heater pointers

[Mr.B]

Well I live in a small house. I have a furnace but hardly use it and basically keep it hooked up for the resale value of my house. Which I hope I sell in a year or 2....

I do all my heating with a pellet stove. THe up stairs in my house gets pretty chilly in the winter time. Can anyone point out a good space heater?

I needs to run on white gas, or propane, and not need electicity to run, under $200 also....older models or newer stuff.

I already googled a number of diffrent things but was just looking for some pointers!


-B

[RueTheDay]

Why white gas or propane and not kerosene?

Kerosene is safer than either of those two, puts out more heat than both, and is cheaper than white gas. Plus there is a much better selection of kero models.

[Anon001]

Personally speaking,

Propane costs a lot less than kerosene in many areas. Also, propane in bulk can be piped into the house. Another reason is that in many areas, kerosene is getting harder and harder to find.

If it was me, I would go the route of the ventless propane heaters.... I think one of the top two brands is called "Comfort Glo" and I can't remember the other one. I have one installed but normally isn't lit. I only use it when I am gone over the winter holidays so that pipes won't freeze.

[Quietgentleman]

Before I went the route of buying a space heater. I would just cut in some vents to the upstairs and let the heat up to the upstairs. I grew up in an old 2 story house that we heated with forced air wood furnace but only to the first floor. The upstairs was warmed just by the heat rising up into the second floor by the vents. There we 4 bedroom upstairs and each had a vent in the floor that was open to the room below it. Granted it was never as warm up in my bedroom as it was downstairs but it never got below 65 degrees in my room. Personally I like my bedroom cool for sleeping.

QGM

[Mr.B]

On the way up the stairs I cut a hole in the wall to allow heat to travel into the room instead of letting the heat work its way down and around the short hall way. I then framed out the hole so it basically looks like it window.

Maybe Ill just stick to that this year it really wansnt that bad sometimes it did get around 45 degrees.

-B

[cinok]

We have a house that is less then 400 sq ft. We use a small comfort glow heater that does the job perfectly. We have an open floor plan with a loft for the kids. The heat rises and sometimes a window is left open a little bit in the loft. Our is not permanent it comes out in the late fall till spring. We run ours off a 100 pound tank. I think this is the one we have:http://www.comfort-glow-comfortglow.com/heaters/gw20t.html
Be sure to get the one with the thermostat. If I recall we went through 2 tanks of propane last year at 65 a tank. It was on almost all the time due to my wife recovering from surgeries. You could easy turn it off when not needed and turn on at night. It does have a pilot so that uses fuel if its just left on for no reason

[NCLee]

I second, third, or whatever it is on using a ventless propane heater. A friend has a small house that he heats with one of these. It's centrally located and does keep his house warm. We can get down to zero in January around here.

We have a kerosene heater in storage, but don't use it, unless absolutely necessary. Even though it's running properly, I can't handle the fumes that it gives off. Stopped using it in my shop for that reason. Depending on which shop I'm in, I now heat with wood, or a small propane space heater that's probably 30-40 years old.

Lee