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With small children I would go the fan heater with stat to control it, a lot safer than gas heat source. You are paying for your EHU so why not use it.

Flack.

Hang on !  That's a bit illogical!!  Does one use gas central heating at home or a fan heater ?!!?

There's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't use modern caravan heating systems at night.  The heaters are 'room sealed' so there is no chance of fumes entering the van.  All the burner system is outside of the van too, there isn't even a flame inside - unlike a fridge running on gas.................

There should be no reason that you can't run your caravan gas heating throughout the night , BUT i would do 2 things first , (1) have your caravan gas heater serviced (2) fit a carbon monoxide alarm or detector , the reason it's an extra safety device that would give you piece of mind .

Myself , i would buy an oil filled radiator and save the gas .

atb

Wizard

Caravans are well ventilated and should have little problems with gas build up, but thats no excuse for not hving it serviced. Care should be taken with oil filled heaters not to flamable material on or directly over it. Did you put a new battery in your fire detector this year. All heaters should have a good circulation of air and not tucked under cupboards. 

HazaR

Oil filled rads....you lot must have big cars to pull your vans. With all the rest of the stuff you need to take, how do you fit it all in? And then theres the weight aspect. Get an audible alarm and use your van heating.

Weavers

We regularly leave our caravan (Truma Ultraheat?) system on all night.  We run it on the leccy hookup and set it to 500w.  We set the fan speed to low so that the noise is barely noticeable.  We haven't needed to use it on gas so far.

Quote: Originally posted by Ulti-Mates on 08/08/2005

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Weavers

We regularly leave our caravan (Truma Ultraheat?) system on all night.  We run it on the leccy hookup and set it to 500w.  We set the fan speed to low so that the noise is barely noticeable.  We haven't needed to use it on gas so far.

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