Propane furnace question

[bbird]

I'm so misunderstood....seriously, I have talked to four (count em..four!) heating companies and they don't know what I am talking about.

We are interested in buying a wall furnace for propane. Its placed against an outside wall and vented to the outside. They are about 5 feet tall, 2 ft wide and comes off the wall about 2 ft.

Yet when I call these places they want to sell me a furnace that has duct work throughout the house. I don't want that, and when I try and explain again how its just one furnace and it blows hot air into one room only they say I must mean a space heater for propane. Its not a space heater that I want, I don't want to move it around, and I want more heat then a space heater provides.

Dh doesn't even understand why they don't understand me, but we were thinking maybe they don't make them like that anymore. Its been about 19 years since we had one in our first house when we were married, so you never know.

So any propane heater people out there that can help me?

[skookum]

Don't know where you are located in relation to a big town, but see if you can find an old plumbing/heating supply house. By old, I mean one that has been around 30 or more years-preferably more. the wall mount furnaces you are seeking were quite common not so many years ago, and I bet an older supply house might still have some around.
Another possibility would be a mobile home supply place. Might check with a propane supplier-often the guy filling your tank is a weath of information.

[Kathy]

Deb, I don't know if these are updated versions of what you're talking about or not. They are called direct vent propane furnaces. There seems to be a number of sites that have them so there's probably some place with better prices.

There are multiple BTU options so maybe this is an option.

Vented Propane Wall Furnaces

[bbird]

skookum said:

Don't know where you are located in relation to a big town, but see if you can find an old plumbing/heating supply house. By old, I mean one that has been around 30 or more years-preferably more. the wall mount furnaces you are seeking were quite common not so many years ago, and I bet an older supply house might still have some around.
Another possibility would be a mobile home supply place. Might check with a propane supplier-often the guy filling your tank is a weath of information.

Thanks! Whew...at least you knew what I was talking about. I feel so much better! You know, dh was trying to get me to call a Rv place, because our motorhome has that kind of furnace, only on a smaller scale so that might be the way to go.

[skookum]

This may sound odd, but look on the net for Coleman products-they used to make those vented wall furnaces a long time ago. And try Bryant also. Seems Kathy may have found what you want.

[bbird]

admin said:

Deb, I don't know if these are updated versions of what you're talking about or not. They are called direct vent propane furnaces. There seems to be a number of sites that have them so there's probably some place with better prices.

There are multiple BTU options so maybe this is an option.

Vented Propane Wall Furnaces

Yes! On the bottom of that page they had a picture of what we want. Its a 55,000 BTU Direct Vent Counterflow Wall Furnace - DV-55.

Okay, I'm feeling good now, and getting closer to being able to do this, lol.

Thanks guys!

[bbird]

skookum said:

This may sound odd, but look on the net for Coleman products-they used to make those vented wall furnaces a long time ago. And try Bryant also. Seems Kathy may have found what you want.

Excellent! Thanks for throwing out some brands, that helps a lot.

[skookum]

Word of advice- VENTED ONLY. Don't even consider a unit that does not send exhaust to the outside. Carbon monoxide is NOT your pal.

[bbird]

skookum said:

Word of advice- VENTED ONLY. Don't even consider a unit that does not send exhaust to the outside. Carbon monoxide is NOT your pal.

Lol, yeah...I hear ya there.

I just noticed you have Washington as your location. I'm your neighbor here in NW Oregon.

[skookum]

I am in Pacific county-the one that our moronic governor flew over after the Dec. storms and commented that we "were resourceful and didn't need any help." Some of us have been wondering if we can secede from the state. Since we are so resourceful...

[dirty]

i bought one of those heaters in my last house. it was natural gas. bought it at home depot.

[Kathy]

I only have two of those unvented heaters to heat my whole house-1500 sq ft but luckily I'm in AR. I'm quite comfortable with indoor temps of 60-62 tonight it's going down to 15 so this should be interesting. The only other good thing is there's quite a few air leaks around doors & windows and since there's those unvented heaters I choose not to winterize & seal all of them-better a bit drafty than dead from CO2 poisoning.

Personally, if this was my place; I'd have vented heaters or better yet a wood burner of some sort to augment the electric/gas heat.

My own place Will have dual fuel and it will all vent to the outside.

[bbird]

skookum said:

I am in Pacific county-the one that our moronic governor flew over after the Dec. storms and commented that we "were resourceful and didn't need any help." Some of us have been wondering if we can secede from the state. Since we are so resourceful...

Not too far, I'm from Columbia County up in the Coast range. I don't have too many good things to say about our governor, but we did get classified as a disaster area. We have a creek on our property that floods every winter, but since our house is on the top of the hill there is no way we will get any damage.

i bought one of those heaters in my last house. it was natural gas. bought it at home depot.

I didn't even think of checking there, I'll do that and hopefully it will save me trying to run one down. Thanks!

[bbird]

admin said:

I only have two of those unvented heaters to heat my whole house-1500 sq ft but luckily I'm in AR. I'm quite comfortable with indoor temps of 60-62 tonight it's going down to 15 so this should be interesting. The only other good thing is there's quite a few air leaks around doors & windows and since there's those unvented heaters I choose not to winterize & seal all of them-better a bit drafty than dead from CO2 poisoning.

Personally, if this was my place; I'd have vented heaters or better yet a wood burner of some sort to augment the electric/gas heat.

My own place Will have dual fuel and it will all vent to the outside.

Better pile the blankets on the bed to keep warm! You should also buy one of those CO2 alarms if you don't already have one. I think the one we have in our motorhome was under 20 bucks.

We have a woodstove in the barn/house but need some kind of back up heat just incase...you know, for those times you just don't feel like hauling in wood, starting a fire just to take the morning chill off, lol. In our house now we have the woodstove, and the backup is electric furnace. Yeesh, talk about spendy and I really don't think the heat is that hot. Even standing on the registers it feels verily warm. (that's after new duct work, new elements too) Sometimes we think its because we are so use to wood heat that anything else isn't as warm, but then again I am one who likes a hot fire, and then opens the windows to cool off.

[bbird]

Woohoo, found one! Dh has a place by his work that had a whole bunch of different styles of propane furnaces. One thing down, a kazillion more things to figure out. Thanks for everyone's help!

[Deleted]

I had one of those before, have been pricing them latley because I loved mine!!

Kaza