Gas heating

[Dannco75]

Me again

We have the trumatic heater, minging brown thing pictured. Not in use as such yet but we're looking to be using the mh year round and thinking ahead to winter, so people leave the heating on a low setting over night? Or just blast it so it's redders and then turn it off before going to sleep, before starting to feel cold again?
I'm sure it'd be fine overnight but the idea of it doesn't fill me with confidence for some reason.

 

[JnJ]

We never leave the heating on over night. If you have decent warm bedding you should be fine. Might be a fight over who gets up to turn it on in the morning though.

 

[manucato]

When it's cold outside (below 15°C), I manage to keep it around 16°-17°C at night with it...

 

[Googlebot]

I leave mine on low all night and always have, they are designed to be used as such.

 

[LostInSpace]

We had one of those in our CI Carioca some years ago. Worked very well I thought.

But we only left it on overnight if the weather was going to be such that things would start to freeze without it.
So hopefully some months off yet.

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[grasscutter]

Had them in a previous van.
Personally I prefer it to the full blown system.
Leaving it just on convection without the blower kept my van toasty warm.

 

[Jeff one]

A good hot water bottle helps

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Unless it's freezing we turn the heating off overnight then back on again in the morning. We installed a deisel heater so can switch between gas or deisel as required. We find the deisel heater is the best for a quicker heat up compared to the gas.

 

[hallhmik]

Skiing in the alps, outside temp often -15 at night. Gas heating set to 7/8 permanently to prevent pipes freezing and keep basic warmth. Diesel heater set to come on if temp drops below 6 in case gas runs out overnight. Diesel heater set to come on 15 minutes before our alarm goes off to warm van up before we get up.

 

[Lenny HB]

Never use heating overnight in the van or house but no reason you can't if you want to.

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[scotzsue]

That fire is one of the things I miss on this and last van, instantaneous heat, also had blown air.
If you don't like the colour change it, Hammerite works well, did that with a similar coloured one in my last house, it subsequently got changed each time i decorated.
We do sometimes leave the heating on overnight, bit it is rare even when snowing. we do carry a small oil filled radiator for when on hook up, amazing how it keeps the chill off.