Gas Free, Cheap, Reliable, Heating & Cooking Solutions.

[CaptainBob]

Looking for gas freem cheap, reliable heating and cooking solutions.

Research is leading me down the Origo route... but I've read you can't really use the Origo 3000 hob to heat the cabin effectively as it requires mucho ventilation.

But then I found this:

http://www.force4.co.uk/ProductDetails/mcs/productID/660

Which also burns spirit.

Anyone every used one?

If I've got meths onboard anyway, might it be worth getting the 3000 stove AND the 5100 "Heatpal"?

Or any other suggestions?

 

[sarabande]

Every "wet" hydrocarbon fuel will generate water vapour roughly in the same proportion to the volume of burnt liquid.

So, while you are warming the atmosphere in the cabin, you are also putting lots of moisture into it.

And as for CO2........

 

[Chris_Robb]

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Every "wet" hydrocarbon fuel will generate water vapour roughly in the same proportion to the volume of burnt liquid.

So, while you are warming the atmosphere in the cabin, you are also putting lots of moisture into it.

And as for CO2........

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And also Carbon Monoxide if you shut the hatches! So go carefully

 

[graham]

I often leave one burner going on my Origo 2 burner stove. It warms up the cabin nicely .Theres a ventilator in the deck above the cooker and in the washboards .I only leave it burn for about 30 minutes and definitely wouldnt sleep with it lit.

Any fuel burning cooker or stove without a flue has the potential; for CO poisoning.I cant see the heater being any safer than the cooker.

 

[sarabande]

Well past my bedtime ! Sorry, I meant CO. ta Chris

 

[roly_voya]

If you just want a small stove to warm and dry a single cabin rather than heat the whole boat in the middle of winter then charchole burners seem to be the way to go, you do need a flue but only about 25mm. Next step up is the Tayors parafin/deisel heaters, gain small flue. After that you are up to full stoves 3 - 4" flues etc. Generally I would say dont use anything without a flue as a heater both because of the fume risk and because they give out so much water you feel like you are in a sauna and then when you turn them off everythig quickly feels cold because its damp. Only exception is perhaps a Tilly lamp which will give several hour heat and light on 1 pint of parafin - I think they burn so little fuel that the damp is not much problem and the vents cope with it.