Portable Indoor Heaters

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itsybitsy
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Re: Portable Indoor Heaters

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GeraldTheBonzai wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 12:45 pm
itsybitsy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 12:28 pm Hadn't thought of bio-ethanol but that's an interesting one and I like the idea of a portable fireplace! Cost might be an issue but I have three floors to think about and it could be moved from the first floor to the ground floor if needed.
Caught my attention.... See Robert Dyas do one for about £80. Doing the sums, it works out about twice as expensive as an equivalent electric radiator to run, but thats if you run it all the time. As a top up / localised heater, it might make sense.
I'll take a look. This is really for if we have power cuts so we'd be without leccy to run a radiator.
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Re: Portable Indoor Heaters

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I can recommend a buddy heater if it’s just to take the chill off in an occasional emergency.
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We have bio ethanol heaters X2 good for emergency use liquid is easy to store I store it in the shed in its original bottles got a selection of 1l bottles and 2l containers..

Yes it's not cheap but like anything prep related start with a couple of litres per month That said have you seen the price of paraffin :shock: latest I saw in Boyes was £16 for 4L !!
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Re: Portable Indoor Heaters

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Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 5:13 pm We have bio ethanol heaters X2 good for emergency use liquid is easy to store I store it in the shed in its original bottles got a selection of 1l bottles and 2l containers..

Yes it's not cheap but like anything prep related start with a couple of litres per month That said have you seen the price of paraffin :shock: latest I saw in Boyes was £16 for 4L !!
I buy pump Kero, just refilled the jerry for about £25...... It was well under 15 notes last year.
There are some benefits to living in Norfolk :D


Back on topic.
I'd use propane or Bio-eth indoors.
Eth burners are probably easier to move around..... Well, lighter anyway
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ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2026 7:07 pm
Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 5:13 pm We have bio ethanol heaters X2 good for emergency use liquid is easy to store I store it in the shed in its original bottles got a selection of 1l bottles and 2l containers..

Yes it's not cheap but like anything prep related start with a couple of litres per month That said have you seen the price of paraffin :shock: latest I saw in Boyes was £16 for 4L !!
I buy pump Kero, just refilled the jerry for about £25...... It was well under 15 notes last year.
There are some benefits to living in Norfolk :D


Back on topic.
I'd use propane or Bio-eth indoors.
Eth burners are probably easier to move around..... Well, lighter anyway
Nowhere local that does it on the pump sadly we've a boat yard where I can get red diesel for the Chinese diesel heaters
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine