Reddy Heater - Good Deal?

[canadian_woodworker]

Planning on buying a 35k BTU Reddy Heater, Propane, 75 bucks canadian. Seems like good deal to me based on new prices, etc.

Anything bad i should know about the reddy models?

[Robatoy]

As a brand, they've been around a long time and there isn't a whole lot to go wrong with a propane heater, short of the ignitor perhaps.

Most of those heaters will tell you what to expect in terms of fuel consumption. As a fellow Kanuckistani, I'd find out about that first: how MANY 20-pound cylinders you are going to go through during the course of a week.

You got natural gas where you live? (I'm not talking beans.)

[canadian_woodworker]

No NG access, thats the problem (another thread on this back a day or two).

Heater is going to be used to quickly (or as quick as possible) warm up a 18x16 shop, and then let a 16k btu electric heater maintain it.

[Thomas Kendrick]

[canadian_woodworker]

And that open flame dosent bother you in the shop? Still makes me nervous.

On a positive side, Im not expecting to need the propane version for extended periods of time. My 16k BTU heater pulled my shop from 1.9 C to 16.9 C last night in about 15 minutes. I was pretty happy with that.

[Thomas Kendrick]