[TheForge] Gas heater question

[Jerry Frost]

I'm with you Bruce, I'm no fan of ventless heaters of any kind. An easy to
run heat would be a gas water heater and baseboard heat or under floor
hydronic. Pex tubing is really easy to run, you can pull it like wire and
there are a number of different end use heat exchangers from radiators to
baseboard to sub floor contact plates and even overhead IR radiators.

Jer

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Ventless heaters are dangerous to use in a living space, especially if
anyone will be sleeping.

I think you are missing an opportunity here.  With free gas, you can put
efficiency as a secondary consideration and safety first.  Build yourself
some sort of gas burner and install it outside.  Either above or around it,
install a leak-proof box as a heat exchanger.  Feed this box air from a
blower (e.g., shop vac), and run a 4"-6" line from it to the basement.

There are too many ways to implement this to bother describing it more than
this -- it all depends upon what materials you can scrounge.  The best bet
would be to scrounge any sort of vented furnace and build from that.

How's things otherwise?

Bruce
NJ


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> This is a ventless heater - no exchanger.
>
> But thanks for the warning.
>
>
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> On 11/20/13, 10:20 PM, Kim George wrote:
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>> Just make sure that the heat exchanger is good or you might not wake up.
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