Power Outages: Propane house heater?

markNEScotland

We are still recovering from the power outages in Aberdeenshire, We were only off for 2 days, but others are still off. Whilst we have a camping gaz 2 ring/grill for emergencies/cooking, but no heating.

(the 1.8kg gaz refillable bottles are now costing £90, bottle plus contents, but now need a backup for when present bottle emptys!)

Our caravan winters by the house so could use propane bottle; can anyone recommend an indoors propane heater that could be run off my caravan propane bottle?

I've had a look at what comes up on google, but need to check ease of connectivity to caravan bottle.

Thanks

Mark

JVB66

The connections of propane cylinders should  be the same for both ,unless the indoor heater you are looking at is butane which should just need a propane regulator to replace it

RedKite

Over here in France you are not allowed to use propane bottles inside properties, we have 13kg butane which we used when we had a gas hob but now induction hob instead so the gas bottle we will use it with our portable gas heater. We have a calor 13 kg Propane which we had thought of putting outside the kitchen for the gas hob but now not usable unless we take it away with the caravan but it is a bit heavy and nearly full.

Navigateur

Why not just move into the caravan as it is there?

Rufs

You have my sympathy, we lived for 12 years north of Aberdeen and most winters the power failed, mainly due to snow settling on the overhead wires and then freezing, however, the longest outages was normally only 24/48 hrs, have you considered investing in a small petrol generator, we bought one and installed it in the garage, does not require any specialised installation and it was more than adequate to run a small electric fan heater, and low powered cooking essentials, limited lighting, we had a log burning stove/fire which was very handy. I think we paid £250 for generator which was a good investment, it would run your caravan if you wanted to move into the caravan and use your caravan gas for cooking etc.

JVB66

We have a small  petrol generator as the only real heating we have is a gas boiler,,which is plugged into a normal 13amp socket. And  in case we have an electricity power outage I can just start up the genny and plug the boiler into it to keep the heating on

markNEScotland

Thanks for all your input. Moving into caravan is an option, but battery needed for alde pump; not sure how long we’d get in these temperatures.

I think Thetford cooker should still work on flat battery.

many families still worse off than us up here; army assisting today, pity they wait for 6 days before recognising scale of damage.

Navigateur

 Perhaps a solar panel should be on your Christmas list?

2axles

I have a propane powered space heater I use in the garage - but it uses a mains electric fan.  We have a tiny petrol generator we''ve not had to use in anger yet.

I think those portable heaters with a cylinder inside were all butane.