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We love to get away from it all-that means the lot!! lol

We have issues health wise for keeping our youngest warm etc due to heart disease, but we invested in some good bedding, jim jams/thermals etc and he actually sleeps ten times better in a tent than he does in his own bed/house

I would alway's be too terrified of the 'what if it did catch fire' to even contemplate getting a heater, I am not that brave!!

I have an electric heater and does warm the tent up.Also it has only got to move a small angle and cuts out and if want to start up have to make dead sure it is fully upright before it will work. 

WG

I have a fan heater in the tent. Bought it a few years ago half way through a damp, cold and soggy 3 week camping trip.  We were cold and miserable and fed up of getting into the car for a drive to get warm an feel dry.

Since then I have taken it on most camping trips. It gets used maybe last thing at night before getting ready for bed. The last 2 damp wet summers I have camped for 3 weeks at a time  and use this hour before bed to unwind with a hot choc, boil the (gas) kettle for out hot water bottles (essential camping kit imo) and also to help dry any damp towels/coats etc.  I have a canvas tent so do not find I suffer from condensation but would wonder how bad condensation would be in a nylon tent. 

The heater gets switched off when we go to bed. I worry too much about it falling  over and causing a fire.  I am always up in the night for a visit to my porta potti and for the 2 minutes loo stop can cope with the chill.  My kids have never complained too.  Once or twice I have awoken in the night very cold (was 3degrees according to the people in the tent next door - who were alos up feeling the chill as were alot of people on the site) and then I did get up and put the fan heater on for 30 minutes or so to take the chill off.

I think its upto what suits you but I really do wish campers would consider the noise they may make.  I am with Valkscot - I would be very annoyed to have lie in bed listeningto someones fan heater whirring all night long.

scotzlynnie - what a can of worms you've opened!!  Thanks for an entertaining read guys lol

homebird

This is an interesting thread

Each to his own I say - isn't that why we go camping?

I don't have an EHU - yet. But I will have to get some heating for our tent

My hubby will keep me warm but what about Jenny - our dog? I will have to get heating for her in October. When we go camping we will switch off her radiator at home and get her some heating in the tent

That must be ok?

Quote: Originally posted by jennydog on 10/6/2009

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This is an interesting thread

Each to his own I say - isn't that why we go camping?

I don't have an EHU - yet. But I will have to get some heating for our tent

My hubby will keep me warm but what about Jenny - our dog? I will have to get heating for her in October. When we go camping we will switch off her radiator at home and get her some heating in the tent

That must be ok?

 

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Heating for a dog  We've got two dogs - a border terrier X Jack Russell, and a border terrier X Lakeland with a bit of JR thrown in. The border X JR (bitch) feels the cold a bit so we just chuck a blanket over her and she's fine. The other dog is a male and never feels the cold - don't know what it is with bitches!