Can anyone actually confirm if this is safe to use in a van

Even used when you are awake they can make you feel drousy, and give you that feeling of safety... When in actual fact it is poisoning you... Depleting your oxygen intake, and replacing with carbon monoxide and dioxide...



You will sleep for a very long time!


Please don't use them..... I have experience of the consequences that can happen

 

:yeah that:
Agreed, please don't listen to people saying 'It hasnt killed me yet' if it had they wouldn't be posting!

 

I had to call an ambulance for a guy who had passed out using one of these in his zipped up bivvy

And ive also seen them splutter and shoot flames from the front before

I wouldent use one in an enclosed space

 

I wouldn't use any combustible device in an un-ventilated area, try suing the manufacturer when your dead.

 

I get what everyone is saying about safety issues and I certainly wouldn't use it unventilated, but isn't it just the same as the people who put their gas cookers on to warm their vans up??
just saying like :-

 

yes chris it's just the same.

 

A Propex is the answer it sucks in fresh air from outside, burns it & blows out the combustion engine back outside. The warm air that heats you is sucked from in the van blown over a heat exchanger then back out into the van. So the warm air is the same air that your breathing. So you don't get gassed an eiberspatcher works the same way.

 

Yep

Same as cooking with windows shut.

 

And so does my riviera heater apart from mine doesent blow

 

Chris

I am visiting a new mechanic/vw specialist at the weekend (one i have used so far has let me down once too many times now) who is quoting me for some body work I need doing. I already had it in mind to ask him to quote me for fitting Propex.

I know the unit is about

 

http://www.gasure.co.uk/propex.htm

Charge 130 plus vat

 

Cheers scooper

If all else fails I could get it all fitted by Gasure and they have a place in Basildon which is only an hour from me.

 

Just Kampers do them:-
http://www.justkampers.com/shop/propex-gas-heatsource-hs-2000-12-volt-j18073.html
& so do Blue Bird Customs second one down:-
http://www.bluebird-type2.co.uk/heat.htm

 

Basically the same price. You may get it even cheaper on-line. £130 isn't cheap but its not expensive either & Gussure are a reputable company. To be honest I'd go to them as they know what they are doing & will give you a certificate, ask them if they can supply one cheaper, worth a try.

 

you don't need a certificate to fit one, the law isn't the same for a temporarry home....as long as you are a fairly competent person and check all your connections with soapy water job's a good un.

 

Hi there. I just noticed this thread.
I don't know about that specific brand of heater, but many bus owners over here use that type all the time with no ill effects.
In [glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300]FACT[/glow][/glow], I once left one on all night with four of us sleeping in the bus. We didn't even crack a window.
Anyway, I researched the crap out of catalytic heaters. Surely you saw my thread on the subject? Lots of interesting info with a little debating back and fourth.
http://thelatebay.com/index.php?topic=1292.msg14364#msg14364

 

I think if you should have to claim on insurance, having a certificate for your gas instalation (and your hookup come to that) takes away that excuse for paying out..
Cheers

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