So I've recently purchased a small propane heater for the winter months.  It costed me $72.65 plus state tax but I also added in a bit extra for next day shipping.  I did order this from the Home Depot web site.  I haven't fully used this as of yet but I got a propane tank out this morning and fired it up to test it out.  So far it seems okay I did check for leaks for my sake.  I do have a good healthy fear of propane thanks to propane forges and how unsafe they can be with the burners.  How ever this seemed like an okay one.  for its rating it says its 9000 BTUS I did have it kicked off on low for a couple of minutes to run a test seemed to heat up fairly quickly.  You can use a 20 pound propane tank with it how ever if you plan on doing that the recommendations I found on youtube have said TO ORDER THE MR HEATER CONNECTION HOSE.  I did dive into a lot of youtube reviews on this small heater before I did buy it.  But I think it should do quite nicely for the long cold winter months.  I will place the link to this heater and some youtube reviews in this thread as well.

 

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Mr-Heater-9-000-BTU-Radiant-Propane-Portable-Heater-F232000/205527178

 

 

 

 

Many years ago, I added our propane grill to the already plumbed propane fireplace. Bought all of the necessary brass fittings and went looking for the recommended rubber hose. The local propane dealer had exactly what I needed but said they couldn’t sell it to me. They had to make up the hose. They did use my hardware. Some sort of liability thing. 

There are some things to keep in mind:

--The heater uses oxygen from your room.  Your room should be well vented to make sure you don't CO yourself

--The heater has an O2 sensor; sensors go bad, given time (see comment below about time)

--The heater is open to the atmosphere in the room:  explosive mixes of atmosphere (usually vapors, but dust....sometimes) can ignite.  Avoid flour mills.

--Radiant heaters mounted on the floor are usually blocked by those annoying tools, so you get better coverage by hanging it on the wall or from ceiling

--Personally I'd get a segregated combustion model, preferably ducted for both combustion air (fresh air, oxygen) and exhaust.  Segregation helps prevent accidents

--The heater is really intended for short term duties in tents, etc.  Long term room heating simply increases the chances of an accident.  Long term, there are better choices.

 

My retirement job is forensic engineering, specifically mechanical things.  More specifically, things that go boom, catch fire, injure people, don't flush.  All the little things in life.