Gas heater replacement

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Hi guys

I currently have a gas heater, but the smell is not good on my families health.

My budget is in the region of R400-R1000. I had a look on Takealot website and saw oil, electric, halogen and infrared ones. Just need a decent one to warm a 20m2 room.

If it can be electrical bill friendly and one that can keep area warm at a certain temperature I would be happy.

I had a look at these, but if you have other suggestions, please give links or suggestions.

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KOPITE said:
Hi guys

I currently have a gas heater, but the smell is not good on my families health.

My budget is in the region of R400-R1000. I had a look on Takealot website and saw oil, electric, halogen and infrared ones. Just need a decent one to warm a 20m2 room.

If it can be electrical bill friendly and one that can keep area warm at a certain temperature I would be happy.

I had a look at these, but if you have other suggestions, please give links or suggestions.

Takealot.com: Online Shopping | SA's leading online store

South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.
www.takealot.com www.takealot.com

Takealot.com: Online Shopping | SA's leading online store

South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.
www.takealot.com www.takealot.com

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If you are experiencing smelly problems, then you may want to have your gas heater checked out for leaking hoses or connectors. Mine does not smell at all.

That said, the closest to a gas heater in tems of efficiency, performance and cost (and then still a mile off) is an electric oil-filled heater.
 
Have it serviced first. Cheap and they basically replace everything short of the matrix.
 
Our 12 fin oil heater packed up the other day so before I ordered a new one the obligatory "research" ensued.

Long story short, and to my surprise, a 2000w electric fan heater is apparently the most cost effective.

Being not interested in gas, miffed with my oil heater just packing up and infrared useless at heating up air I bit the cheap bullet and bought a sub R400 electric fan heater.

It arrives on Thursday and not an expensive mistake if it turns out to be useless.

That's my 2c. If it sucks I'll refer back to this thread :p
 
@KOPITE, my wife showed me the 2-bar Quartz heater mention. I may be wrong but those heat you up and not the air so when you switch them off you're cold. That was my concern with it.

Just be careful if ****ing Takeascum because:

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KOPITE said:
That’s the exact same one.

I never serviced it when I bought it almost 10 years ago. Just pushed it in the garage to stand and take it out every year
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I remove the grate and brush the surface with a stiff nylon brush.
 
I have the same gas heater and it also has the lousy gas smell from new. It's still super efficient in heating.
 
I have a GoldAir Gas heater and it doesn't leak or smell any gas and it get used during winter.

Most of the time when it is not in use, it stands which its 9kg bottle attached.

Agree with the other guys too get the Gas Heater serviced. Sounds like the piping and connectors need to be replaced.

How old is the Gas Heater btw?
 
I would rather carefully vacuum the ceramics after removing the grid.
What happens is that dust impede the airflow through the holes in the ceramic and this causes an over rich fuel combustion ratio; almost like a choke function on cars of yore.
This is one cause of gas smell.
The other is poor ventilation of the room. In other words the gas combustion consumes all the oxygen in the room and again there is not a clean burn.

Work carefully with the vacuum cleaner because the ceramics are very delicate.
 
We have a Alva gas heater like the provided pic. No smell at all.
The solenoid valve tends to stick after a year of non use, but nothing I can't sort out.

Also have 2 oil rib heaters, they tend to smell odd sometimes.
 
i have one of these for last 10 winters
works great and i hardly smell anything at all, heats up my large lounge in 20 minutes
very useful for camping as well
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We too have a Russell Hobbs gas heater with the 9kg cylinder and the gas smell emitted is just awful. I'm convinced it's not working as it should. Like there should be no gas smell, otherwise why would we be using it indoors.
 
Rhein said:
I would rather carefully vacuum the ceramics after removing the grid.
What happens is that dust impede the airflow through the holes in the ceramic and this causes an over rich fuel combustion ratio; almost like a choke function on cars of yore.
This is one cause of gas smell.
The other is poor ventilation of the room. In other words the gas combustion consumes all the oxygen in the room and again there is not a clean burn.

Work carefully with the vacuum cleaner because the ceramics are very delicate.
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