Using gas overnight

well you!

If you are not confident that this is the case, then you really should get your appliances checked and serviced. Even if you intend to switch everything off overnight. .... Get it checked.

As others have noted you seem to be giving advice and saying we should use gas, that is how it reads, otherwise why start the thread?

It's a personal choice remember. 

Hush  now,  Children  --  No  squabbling  before  bed  time 

My fault - thank you Boff for doing what I should have done. Can I get off the naughty step now please? We’ve got the Truma convector heater with the blown air system. We do get the van regularly serviced so no worries there. Mr VB isn’t worried it’s just me. I do admire all these hardy souls that don’t have heating on during winter nights. Depending on the temperature a nice thick duvet is often enough. Although the van is well insulated some nights can be very cold and a dribble of heat is very welcome. 

We also drink from the caravan water supply 😱

us, too....

if away from EHU and its blooming cold, why wouldn't you use gas heating if required?

in continental markets, Truma heaters don't (generally)have the extra electric heating bars we can specify in the UK as the 'E' versions....2E, 4E, 6E so, even on a site with EHU, all heating and hot water is provided with gas with these models...

so, I guess they use gas overnight when required, too.

i know someone in the uk who has deliberately not taken up the electric option on his Truma 6 as Hymer wanted nearly £600 for the upgrade and he reckoned he could by an awful lot of pumped gas for that money and have a unit that gave a more powerful efficient service.

When we had a van with the Truma system we tended not to run it overnight.  The only reason for this was the van got too hot.    

We run ours on the thermostat, gas or electric, we don't run a cold overnight van in the winter to avoid condensation problems. We get a habitation service every year.

It does seem by posts on this thread that motor caravans do need heating at night (poor insulation?)compared to caravans that do not have the "problem"

As we rarely use an EHU we use gas when we need heating. Why would one not, we do the same at home, the gas central heating comes on night or day as required? All controlled by thermostats and timers and no doubt built in flame failure and over heating protection systems.

Is there something substandard in respect to safety in the kit used in vans?

Like home, we have CO alarms  in the van, two in each.

We have better insulation in our MH than in any cvan we owned, JV. No need to start the old rubbish again. 

Right bait then 

Ps we lost the problem of condensation when coming into the light again