Heating with your stove?

[howardsells2000]

Im living in an old class c camper, I have no electric. Im planning to buy a mr buddy propane heater for heat this winter, however it has been chilly a few mornings while im bathing. Ive heard that I shouldnt use my four burner propane cooking stove to heat with. Whats the difference between using the stove or the mr buddy heater. They are both propane. Thanks

 

[LFM]

The Mr Buddy Heater has a automatic low-oxygen shut off. 

 

[Willy]

Heating with a stove = suicide. 'Nuff said.

 

[Les H]

Besides Willie's rather ominous warning, a buddy heater will use much less propane, and give better heat. Oh, and the low o2 shut off drastically reduces the chances of waking up dead. Just sayin...

 

[wandering mike]

I too recommend the Mr Heater Buddy. &nbsp;If you do use your stove or oven, please get a CO detector and make sure there is&nbsp;ventilation. &nbsp;Myself, I don't ever use even the Buddy heater unless I am wide awake. &nbsp;<br /><br />As to putting on a pot of water for my coffee first thing in the AM, I do that often and as a side benefit it does heat up my small Class C and I don't need to break out the Buddy Heater.

 

[akrvbob]

In the 10 years I have been a vandweller, I have always used my Coleman propane stove for heat. I don't see a problem with it.<br /><br />If it's mild cold, just making a meal for dinner will warm up the camper. Then in a few hours if it cools off too much I will turn it on again for 30 minutes and it will warm up again. In the morning, if its real cold I will turn it on again for&nbsp; 30 minutes. Maybe I've just been lucky all these years, but i don't see what could go wrong with that.<br /><br />As the temperatures drop, I may have to use it more, like 15 minutes every hour. Once the temps are in the teens,&nbsp; for the stove to keep it warm it would have to be on all the time and I don't want to do that, so I get out my Mr. Buddy and use it instead. Bob