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07/4/2008 at 5:14pm
 Location: middlesbrough
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Hi everyone, can anyone tell me how they leave their heaters on through the night?

our tent as front living area and 1 big bedroom not enough room to put fan heater in bedroom so does anyone just open doors and blow hot air through mesh curtains, Dangerous? how do you get air into bedroom safely? or do people just have more sleeping area? Many thanks for any advice.



07/4/2008 at 5:20pm
 Location: hove
 Outfit: tent
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hi we just got back from camping and we have the same style tent as you.what we did was get a brick and stand the heater on it,just outside the bedroom flap with just the mesh curtain closed.
we put the heater on swing so that the heat wasnt directed at just one part of the mesh.
to be honest it didnt really heat us as well as if it were in the room with us hence we are searching for another tent.
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07/4/2008 at 5:27pm
 Location: Cambridge
 Outfit: Bailey Senator California KIA Sportage
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We were away at Easter with 8 inches of snow in Norfolk. We left our bedroom door open and had the fan heather directed into the room from the living area. All i can say is "snug as a bug in a rug"

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07/4/2008 at 5:51pm
 Location: nottingham
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Depends what heater you are using. If it is a fan heater with a cut off switch if it should fall over and also have a thermostat,  there's nothing wrong with leaving it on all night blowing through the mesh, as long as it's not to close.

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08/4/2008 at 5:03pm
 Location: Gillingham Kent
 Outfit: Outwell Arkansas 5
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Never bothered with a heater on all night, sometimes have a gas one for the living area if it chilly but we sleep on a well insulated air bed under a 13.5 tog duvet and are snug and cosy.


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08/4/2008 at 7:51pm
 Location: St Ives Cornwall
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We always leave our bedroom unzipped anyway..... we like the ventilation and never have trouble with condensation.

canvasquivers i notice you have Khyam Chatsworth tent... how do you find it? We are considering buying one. Great pics by the way. We were away at easter too..... no snow though.....   I would love to wake up and see snow on the campsite....lol....



08/4/2008 at 8:51pm
 Location: lincolnshire
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I never dared leave heater on all night. Prefere an extra blanket and pop heater on on first wee trip about 6am. always toasty for 7.

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08/4/2008 at 9:50pm
 Location: walsall
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this year will be the first time we have taken a heater in the tent, i wasnt sure what to do at night, but i like to get all cosy and tucked up in bed, it wouldnt be the same if it wasnt a bit nippy

we are only fair weather campers anyway, so it only gets really cold in the night, and im usually knocked out with the wine by then any how



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08/4/2008 at 10:01pm
 Location: Staffordhire
 Outfit: Peakland Alport Tunnel Tent
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We was away at Easter, as said previously if your fan heater has a cut out switch you can leave it on all night, if you can leave the beadroom door open so the hot air passes into the bedroom.  If you are worried about leaving it on all night you can buy a timer plug and set it to come on every 20 mins or so this way it should have chance to cool down.

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08/4/2008 at 10:31pm
 Location: Shaftesbury Dorset
 Outfit: Outwell Colorado 8
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                 Hi

           We use a Coleman Black Cat Catolitic gas heater put on about ten minutes 

            before we go to bed (sleeping pod doors closed ) to warm bedroom.

               And then tuck ourselfs up on air bed with flock covered with two blankets

                 an opend out sleeping bag and fitted sheet with a kingsize12 tog duvoet

              and two blankets (singles one each ) snug as a bug. Oh and have a blanket on the floor as a carpet!

                                                     Monty



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09/4/2008 at 2:13pm
 Location: grimsby
 Outfit: outwell x2 & wynster phoenix 4
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i dont know whter id dare leave it on! we put a pvc backed picnic blanket under the airbed and have a fleecy underblanket under our fitted sheet. we take our duvets aswell and if its cold you can put another sheet under. then just send hubby out in the morning to put heater on so i dont get cold!!!!!!


09/4/2008 at 3:03pm
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Hi
We have a 2Kw blow heater that is thermostatically controlled it is set up on a 6X12x16 inch wood box that carries our steel pegs, just in case of flood and lives in a corner of the tent, the thermostat is set to the require temperature we like the tent to be, the only time we turn it off is when we leave the tent, We have used this method for a few years now without a problem, when the ambient temperature gets down to around 2Deg C it runs continuously
But once it gets to around 4Deg C the stat comes into use.
Rex.
PS we never find any need to open bedroom doors or point the heater the tent heats all over. It could be that the cotton canvas as better insulating properties that nylon/poly.

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