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Kerosene Diesel Forced Air Heater
I really like this heater, we live in an old barn that was converted into a house. The first floor has the original brick floors and though we have base board heat it can't compete on really cold days, we have a wood burning stove which gets the place toasty but I needed quick heat in the mornings without pushing the thermostat up. This fits the bill, I light it up first thing in the morning and the place is toasty while I make coffee and prep the wood stove. Little smoke and smell when I first light it up but it dissipates quickly, nothing like the old days when we had them in the house growing up where they smelled all day. I struggled with the filling as I can't stand the siphon it comes with and all cans now come with those stupid safety spouts, that was solved.
-UPDATE FEB 2014- The heater is still going strong. I end up using it 3-4 days per week during the colder months, anywhere from 4-8 hours per day. We recently had a real cold snap here with overnight lows at 15 below or colder. The coldest morning in my garage workshop began at 22 degrees. I found that in this extreme cold the heater couldn't warm up my un-insulated garage quite as well.
Duraheat Forced Air Kerosene Heater Parts
This isn't a total surprise: I'm not an expert in thermodynamics, but it would make sense that a space heater laboring against extreme cold is going to struggle more than just warming up a cool space. Anyway, the 10 degree per hour temperature rise I experience on cold mornings (i.e. Going from 40 degrees to 50 degrees in my shop on a morning where it is 20 degrees outside) was halved on.