Infrared heating

allanandjean replied on 18/07/2020 07:05

allanandjean

Posted on 18/07/2020 07:05

Hi, Being unable to go abroad as usual this year, like many, one thing that we missed was being able to sit out on warm evenings something that, even in our good spells of weather, is not so enticing in the UK.

It would be great to have a bit of heating to enable us to do so in comfort and have narrowed it down to the infrared type seen in many commercial premises to encourage the use of outside space-many of the hits we had made reference to Covid and the advantages of being outside-and after thinking it would likely be a wall mounted heater have come across some freestanding ones at Screwfix.

One advantage would be being able to use in the awning should we wish to and I wondered if anyone else has infrared heaters either at home or for use when camping and what the experience hs been?

Many thanks.

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richardandros replied on 20/07/2020 08:20

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Posted on 19/07/2020 17:34 by

Some years ago I bought an awning heating kit that consisted of the pipework and fittings to create a tee in the vans blown air system and direct it out into the awning though a flap with a valve incorporated. Dont know why I bought it, never got round to fitting it and eventually sold it on ebay. Anyone with this kit can heat the awning safe in the knowledge they wont be found out and castigated on CT

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Posted on 20/07/2020 08:20

This system is fitted as standard in our Knaus😀. Not used it yet, though.

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JVB66 replied on 20/07/2020 08:33

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Posted on 19/07/2020 17:34 by

Some years ago I bought an awning heating kit that consisted of the pipework and fittings to create a tee in the vans blown air system and direct it out into the awning though a flap with a valve incorporated. Dont know why I bought it, never got round to fitting it and eventually sold it on ebay. Anyone with this kit can heat the awning safe in the knowledge they wont be found out and castigated on CT

This is it

Posted on 20/07/2020 08:33

We had that system on a Fleetwood c/van it worked fine ,in todays vans it can be fitted but most have the heater fitted on the offside (gas vent ?)which would mean quite a run to the nearside

EmilysDad replied on 20/07/2020 10:24

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Posted on 20/07/2020 08:33 by JVB66

We had that system on a Fleetwood c/van it worked fine ,in todays vans it can be fitted but most have the heater fitted on the offside (gas vent ?)which would mean quite a run to the nearside

Posted on 20/07/2020 10:24

The position of the boiler is irrelevant. They are intended for use on blown air heating only & just divert heat from the caravan into your awning

JVB66 replied on 20/07/2020 10:50

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Posted on 20/07/2020 10:24 by EmilysDad

The position of the boiler is irrelevant. They are intended for use on blown air heating only & just divert heat from the caravan into your awning

Posted on 20/07/2020 10:50

If you thought about your comment? i think you will find the majority of "boilers" these days do b oth jobs and the as the outlet for the gas exhaust fumes is now it seems on the off side away form exhausting into anyone useing an awning ,to get the hot blown air to mid way awning side would need a long pipe without it running under the LV as most manufactuers run the shortest route to have a more efficient system

Takethedogalong replied on 20/07/2020 11:01

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Posted on 20/07/2020 11:01

Is it an age thing, or is it evolution? Being cold I mean......🤔

replied on 20/07/2020 11:17

Posted on 20/07/2020 10:50 by JVB66

If you thought about your comment? i think you will find the majority of "boilers" these days do b oth jobs and the as the outlet for the gas exhaust fumes is now it seems on the off side away form exhausting into anyone useing an awning ,to get the hot blown air to mid way awning side would need a long pipe without it running under the LV as most manufactuers run the shortest route to have a more efficient system

Posted on 20/07/2020 11:17

I haven't had blown air for quite a while but it did run under nearside bunk and also on some baileys that we looked at a few years ago.

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Posted on 20/07/2020 11:01 by Takethedogalong

Is it an age thing, or is it evolution? Being cold I mean......🤔

Posted on 20/07/2020 11:21

Probably an age thing, although in my case an arthritic thing. If it is below 65 I definitely will be wearing a thermal vest. However we don't have an awning these days.

EmilysDad replied on 20/07/2020 11:28

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Posted on 20/07/2020 10:50 by JVB66

If you thought about your comment? i think you will find the majority of "boilers" these days do b oth jobs and the as the outlet for the gas exhaust fumes is now it seems on the off side away form exhausting into anyone useing an awning ,to get the hot blown air to mid way awning side would need a long pipe without it running under the LV as most manufactuers run the shortest route to have a more efficient system

Posted on 20/07/2020 11:28

you need to think about your own comments and how this awning heater works ....

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Posted on 20/07/2020 11:17 by

I haven't had blown air for quite a while but it did run under nearside bunk and also on some baileys that we looked at a few years ago.

Posted on 20/07/2020 12:33

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