Kerosene heating

[Alyx Vance]

This topic is to discuss the heating of a home using one of those metal beast of a heater known as a kerosene heater. We have one and it has been very troubling, yet very warm.
I keep waking up in the middle of the night to loads of smoke filling the air and soot all over stuff because my uncle keeps lighting it inside.
I have almost been suffocated 2-3 times by that heater, which I am ironicly sitting by right now. ( I'm cold :c)
be damned it hasn't blown up on my yet.
So like, discuss kerosene and heating and such.

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[Zanaran2]

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[Steve5451²]

Get an electric heater.

[Dexxtter]

get a wood burning stove.

[Alyx Vance]

Get an electric heater.

we have a furnace but it runs the bill up too high and it hardly heats the place up. There's a ton of drafty areas in the wall

get a wood burning stove.

no room for one, this kerosene heater we have takes up enough room as is

[Steve5451²]

Ditch the kerosene heater and get a small wood burning stove.

[Alyx Vance]

Ditch the kerosene heater and get a small wood burning stove.

still no room for firewood. This place doesn't have enough space even for the smallest woodstove that's effective

[Clone v.117]

Just burn the wood without a stove inside your house.

[Steve5451²]

still no room for firewood. This place doesn't have enough space even for the smallest woodstove that's effective

So you don't have a yard or...?

[Ravencroft7]

Just burn the wood without a stove inside your house.

This is a good idea.

[Alyx Vance]

So you don't have a yard or...?

if you don't have space inside to store wood than you'll end up with unusable wood. You're suppose to stack wood by the stove so it dries completely. Trust me on this, I used to be the one to keep the stove going when we had one at my old home.

[Steve5451²]

if you don't have space inside to store wood than you'll end up with unusable wood. You're suppose to stack wood by the stove so it dries completely. Trust me on this, I used to be the one to keep the stove going when we had one at my old home.

We tend to heat our house with the fireplace because the gas bills are pretty expensive. We store our wood outside and it burns fine.

[Neon]

are you not ventilating that motherforgeter? that's a good way to die in your sleep, man.

[Alyx Vance]

We tend to heat our house with the fireplace because the gas bills are pretty expensive. We store our wood outside and it burns fine.

never went that easy for us, might just be the fact that were we lived the wood would get damp regardless how we covered it up.

are you not ventilating that motherforgeter? that's a good way to die in your sleep, man.

we have ventilation, it's called the holes in the wall. Every now and then someone wakes up (me or my dad) and vents the trailer by opening the front door. This isn't the firs winter this has happened, happened last winter and a couple years before. The one a few years ago wasn't smoke though, something stopped the flame and filled our camper with loads of carbon monoxcide gas

[Cookiez664]

Kerosene is not a good way to heat your place.