23,000 BTU kerosene heater will heat a 1500 square ft house in 25 degree weather

We already have an air fryer and propane.

Do not worry, I am an actual survivalist.

No one else has survived however.

Oh.......

We will cuddle later, after I am done trolling the pharisees.

I have a space heater going

I’m ready to shut it down

Just let the kerosene heater do it all

23,000 BTU is plenty hot

Crack a window.

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector?

I have a CO monitor

House is poorly insulated

Which helps in this case

I’m on duty

Gonna be up all night holding the fort

Indeed I do

I burn K1

Cleanest you can get

How many litres does the tank hold and how long do you get on a tank...

how much kerosene used in a day and times that by a month....

COST to run....?

Figure it out....

Inquiring minds want to know the bottom line....

Might need it for a whole winter in a solar flare or EMP event....

Plenty of them are rated for indoor home use now...M heater has one for inside use but yes crack a window and have a monitor....

Answer

Expensive as shit

This is a luxury item

K1 is 4 dollars a gallon

My heater holds one gallon

That’s 7-8 hours of burn

Very expensive is your answer

It works well, definitely not free

I have one but I've never used it. I'm thinking of getting it ready in case the power goes out this winter. It would be a good thing to have ready and waiting.

Damn straight

Furnace went down at 22:00

It’s a great thing to have at the ready

Luckily, the freezing cold has passed

House is nice and toasty

We have 2 been running them since 1984. Keep wick clean and no worries. I just burn kero for our local gas station. I used to burn jet A fuel that worked great too. We have 5 co detectors and never set any off!

I got one this year too. I can get 14 hours from it

That’s awesome

My lowest setting isn’t very low in my opinion

Wish I could turn it down some

I’m shutting off the space heater to drop the temp a bit

25 degrees outside and it just burns to hot

Just right when it’s 20 below outside

How long can kerosene store? Is there an additive to help store the kerosene?

It is also possible to use diesel fuel at half the price of kerosene. You need an old fashioned kerosene heater with a cotton wick rather than a woven fiber-glass wick.

The diesel is now very-low sulpher content and only needs a bit of 93% rubbing alcohol and a few cc's of diesel additive to do fine in the old wicks.

The newer fiberglass wicks require kerosene.

Nice

I only have one detector but it never goes off

Kerosene stores well for years.

They claim it has a shelf life

I figure what ever you buy this season better be gone by end of season

I personally know of no additives

Good to know

I have a fiber wick and K1 is what’s recommended

Anybody here ever used a corn stove?

Do a "burn in" of a couple of tanks of K outside before you bring it in.

As for them burning hot, they put off MUCH fewer fumes by running hot so they get complete combustion. If you turn them down much you are much more likely to get incomplete combustion which leads to more carbon monoxide.

For those who have never used them ... a couple of pointers.

* ALWAYS fill them OUTSIDE!! and let it cool down a bit before refueling (5 to 10 minutes
* Use one of those siphon pumps for transferring fuel, NEVER pour fuel directly in the tank via a funnel etc. because eventually you WILL have a bad fuel spill that way.
* Worst fumes are on shutdown. As soon as shut down TAKE UNIT OUTSIDE so it can "outgas" outside of the house.

For the bigger 23,000 btu units 8 to 10 hours is about right as I recall from a full tank of fuel. As mentioned NOT cheap to run ... but a GREAT backup source of heat for a power or furnace failure. We always kept at least a two week supply of fuel around (stored outside in the METAL kerosene cans - NEVER plastic) since we had experienced power failures in the winter where the power was out for 10+ days. Practice with it BEFORE you need it ... and yep keep the wick clean and trimmed.

Wish I had a wood stove

I’d shut my furnace off for good

It would become a back up

Good list

Ignite outside

Shut down outside

Most heaters come with very specific instructions

Follow them

A little birdie told me that they put chemtrail juice in your K1

Siphon pump is the way to go for fueling heater

My heater came with one

Works very well

Mine referred to a burn knob, all there is is a spring that gets hot, so I guess that's the burn knob

Interesting

I think that would be a better idea

Wicks are a pain in the ass

They get old, ware out