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[Snad]

If your talking about the little ones from the kiosk's, then I shouldn't think they would last long on for 7 hours a day. Probably about 4 days, if your lucky. I'm not sure about the big tanks of gas people use for central heating here. Maybe someone else could answer that.

[Crivens]

Hmmm. Dunno. Whatever is used by those portable gas heaters (look about waist height) I've seen (Dalco site has a few costing about £50). Thought I would get a couple of them to keep my lounge warm (is a pretty big room). I was assuming in the winter I would need them on for about 2 hours in the morning (say 7 to 9) and about 4 or 5 hours in the evening (5 to 9 or 10).

Cheers

[cyprusgrump]

Hmmm. Dunno. Whatever is used by those portable gas heaters (look about waist height) I've seen (Dalco site has a few costing about £50). Thought I would get a couple of them to keep my lounge warm (is a pretty big room). I was assuming in the winter I would need them on for about 2 hours in the morning (say 7 to 9) and about 4 or 5 hours in the evening (5 to 9 or 10).

Cheers

Don’t bother with the gas heaters – they smell and cause condensation. Plus you have to have a window open to provide enough ventilation.

Get the electric oil-filled radiators instead. They have timers and can be set-up just like a central heating system.

When we got here and it started getting colder we upgraded from fan heaters to using the split-unit air conditioners, to gas heaters and finally to the electric radiators. Luckily our new home has gas central heating but the electric oil-filled radiators are (IMHO) the best alternative.

[Crivens]

Thats what we were planning on using in the beginning (you mean the thin ones?), but I heard they were quite expensive to run and everyone reckons the gas ones have better heat and are much cheaper to run. We want to get a few electric oil ones anyway so will see how it goes I reckon.