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.
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.
hth
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"
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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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.
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....
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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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.
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!!!!!!
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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