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My Wife, three children and myself are new to camping and purchased our first tent during the summer of last year. (If you can call it a Summer). However we spent 10 days under canvas in Devon and totally enjoyed every second. Mind you my wife does like her home comforts so very suprised. The tent we have is a Hartford XXL which has a centre dome and 4 bedroom areas coming off, but those experianced campers would know that. 

We all loved it so much that we intend to go as much as possible during the Season, the only worry we have is that the youngest is only two (next week) and we are considering a heater of some sort for the colder nights. We are not keen on a gas heater and we would loke an electric type. Do anybody have any recommendations? We did see an electric fan heater in Wilkinsons, but not sure if this would be suitable.

Any help would be appreciated.

if you use ehu then a fan heater is great and safe. we also use a electric bar heater which is designed for camping so if it gets knocked over it switches off. whilst this is good i would not recommend if you have small children. fan heaters are great.

Thanks for the input.

Beezer - The one you have sounds ideal. Where do we get one?

Quote: Originally posted by beezers on 17/4/2008

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We have a greenhouse heater.It`s a fan heater that is drip and condensation proof.It is a thermostatic heater so it turns itself on and off and it had a safety cut out in case it is knocked over. It also acts as a fan in hot weather, It is one of the best things we have bought.

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B&Q have them for £16.

Alan

We have hust bought an Outwell Heater from GO Outdoors, tried it at the weekend and it was really good, has a trip switch on the bottom to turn it off should it fall over has a good thermostat which worked well heater came on automatically when the temp dropped below the setting, two heat settings 750w and 1500w also blows cool if it's warm.

see link

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/redirect.asp?redir=http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/5709388006455

Regards

Adyt

Last year we bought a tesco value fan heater (if you have electric) It was fantastic they are on offer for £5 at the mo.  Best thing we ever bought.  My 3year old had bad asthma and the damp camping kills him in bad weather and this kept him toasty and warm. we have a big tent and even with the bedrooms sealed it kept the rooms warm!  wont go camping withut it!

Hi, Have just been in Dunhelm in Weston Super mare and they have loads of 2 kw fan heaters for 4.99 and oil filled radiators for about a tenner....(cant remember the exact price was too excited about the fan heaters!!)

Might be useful to someone!

We bought a fan heater from Argos as we already had an EHU.

We camp with 3 young children (our youngest was 9 monthes when we first got the heater) and two collie dogs so made sure it had a cut off switch if knocked over.

On cold nights we have it on med-low in the centre of tent and it keeps the cold out and the tent dry.

Ideal

Quote: Originally posted by morgaine on 19/4/2008We're going camping in September this year, there is no EHU at the site, what do you recommend?