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does burning a ventless gas heater make your gas bill go way up?

Feb 01, 2007 by alienhunter34 | Posted in Other - Home & Garden

i have a ventless gas heater on the screen of my basement. i was thinking of burning it steadyto staff heat the basement and the floors for upstairs. do these fetch alot to run.

Prudence! a vent less heater is dangerous. If you read the owners handbook, it states to use with a window slightly open....why?
Any every so often old-fashioned you burn gas, propane or natural, there is what is called products of combustion. One of them is carbon monoxide. This is the gas that you heed every year that kills people. I work for a gas proprietorship in Michigan. Whenever we come across them in a customers home, we are required to disengage them to to liability issues. Good luck!

Can I use propane with a ventless gas heater?

Nov 23, 2006 by kevin 1 | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

It is made for non-chemical gas. But I want to use propane.

You said the heater is set up for unpretentious gas, and your want to use it on propane gas. So, lets look at the two types of gas before we look at ways of converting the paraphernalia.

Natural gas is made up mostly of methane gas (CH4). Each molecule of methane gas has one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. A cubic foot of everyday gas (12” X 12” X 12”) typically has 1000 BTU’s and the gas is delivered to the burner orifice(s) at a urgency of 3.5 inches water column which is the compression it would take to push water up a straw 3.5”.

Each molecule of propane gas has three atoms of carbon, and eight atoms of hydrogen. A cubic foot of propane gas has 2,500 BTU’s, and is delivered to the burner orifice(s) at a power of 11 inches water column.

Heaters are typically designed to eat up a certain number of BTU’s, and so, the manufacturer will size the burner orifice(s) to dial the number of BTU’s. For a given number of BTU's, a burner set up for propane will have orifice(s) that have a much smaller cell(s) since the fuel is much richer, and is delivered at a greater exigencies.

Manufacturers usually supply propane conversion kits for appliances that are designed to be converted. Sometimes a well-acquainted technician can convert an older appliance that doesn’t have a conversion kit present. This type of conversion should only be done by a skilled technician. As hillbilly said in an earlier answer, an untrained person (DIY) should not attempt a conversion like this as such a conversion, if done improperly, can fashion a dangerous, and possibly deadly condition.

I am smelling gas odor when using my ventless gas fireplace..is this normal?

Oct 23, 2006 by Daniel H | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

I have a ventless fireplace(also called a ventless gas log heater) in my livingroom. The way it is set up, there is a clip that props open the flue about 1/2 inch. The first culture we ran it we immediately got a strong gas odor that filled the whole contain. The gas man came out when I reported the smell and he said the odor is healthy a by-product of gas burning and I should run the fireplace with the flue closed. But the odor gives us a problem so we run it with the flue completely open ..odor is gone but we get no agitation out of it at all. What is he talking about when he says the gas odor is normal..this perfectly doesnt seem right even though he had the co2 wand out and did not detect anything... and uninterrupted it with the flue closed that really doesnt seem off!!!

help


Concerned Daniel.

Gas leaks and/or vapors will assassinate you!! The headaches are your body telling you something is wrong. If it is a literal gas leak anything that causes a minimal spark could ignite it and tornado up your home and kill everyone in it. Turn the fireplace totally off so the pilot goes out. If it is the only thing in the house being fed off of a tank of some make turn the tank off at the valve till it can be looked at by someone else. If you have illegitimate gas at a meter you do not need to worry about the supply to the catch of the house assuming this is the first and only problem you have had prior to the inaugurate of the fireplace insert.
Contact a gas appliance revamp person from another company immediately and get them to check it and set the flue damper correctly eject your lines and use a gas sniffer for any leaks in the lines, couplers and valves.
Don't tight-fisted to scare you but I have had to be involved in some gas explosion investigations in my conditions that people had lost their lives in.

what uses more energy the gas furnace on at 64 degrees or the ventless heater (gas)on?

May 14, 2008 by just asking | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

What volume is the furnace in btu's, and what size is the little ventless heater in btu's?

Don't use a ventless heater. I conscious they are becoming legal in more and more areas, but use a heater that does eject all the CO2 out of the house.

We live in Chino Valley AZ. and does anyone know if it is ok to use a ventless gas heater in a room?

Aug 14, 2008 by Norma H | Posted in Phoenix

Please let me grasp, we just built on a family room and we will requirement a heater but we are hoping we don't have to have a vent for it. Thank you much. Joyce

Doesn't shape safe. You don't need to guess. Those things have protection stickers plastered all over them. Get a pellet stove. /