POk3s
Escalante-Class Member
I love how you guys have pulled this off so well! The sense of relief and accomplishment must be sky high! I sincerely wish I had the patience to remodel something like this.
I didn’t think I’d have anything to add, but since I ice fish a lot and am well versed on all kinds of heaters! In short, you guys are correct to be cautious of your buddy heater. There are lots of videos showing how the heater buddy is “safe”! And yes it is very safe compared to other heaters.
When things are going perfectly, the heater outputs carbon DIOXIDE, water vapor, and heat. You need a whole lot of carbon dioxide to do any damage to you.
Your real danger is low oxygen for a couple different reasons. The first is well…low oxygen. The heater uses the oxygen in the room and if it’s not well ventilated then you’ll start to starve the place of oxygen.
The second danger of low oxygen is the heater will then start to put off carbon MONOXIDE when the oxygen gets low. A real killer and even if it doesn’t kill you, enough to put a damper on the weekend with headaches and flu like symptoms.
The heaters are built with a low oxygen, safety shutoff. It SHOULD shut off before anything bad happens, but you’re trusting a $50 heater and a 10 cent shut off part. The way I look at it, they come with an ignition too and that thing rarely works!!
Sorry for getting a little long winded but if you’re like me, you just don’t like to invite any kind of preventable accidents into your life. I don’t trust the heaters for sleeping either and keep things well ventilated. I regularly use a sunflower style heater but they are the worst for carbon monoxide output. They do however work all the time…unlike the finicky heater buddies. Keep things ventilated, click them on and let them run for 5 minutes and click them off.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, lots of ice fisherman are going the route of “Chinese diesel heaters” and love them. They exhaust out the back when built properly. A search for “diesel heaters for ice fishing” should put you on the right path.
I just purchased this heater last year for sleeping in my ice hut. Completely safe but doesn’t put out a ton of heat. Basically it makes it comfortable to sleep when outside is very uncomfortable.
I didn’t think I’d have anything to add, but since I ice fish a lot and am well versed on all kinds of heaters! In short, you guys are correct to be cautious of your buddy heater. There are lots of videos showing how the heater buddy is “safe”! And yes it is very safe compared to other heaters.
When things are going perfectly, the heater outputs carbon DIOXIDE, water vapor, and heat. You need a whole lot of carbon dioxide to do any damage to you.
Your real danger is low oxygen for a couple different reasons. The first is well…low oxygen. The heater uses the oxygen in the room and if it’s not well ventilated then you’ll start to starve the place of oxygen.
The second danger of low oxygen is the heater will then start to put off carbon MONOXIDE when the oxygen gets low. A real killer and even if it doesn’t kill you, enough to put a damper on the weekend with headaches and flu like symptoms.
The heaters are built with a low oxygen, safety shutoff. It SHOULD shut off before anything bad happens, but you’re trusting a $50 heater and a 10 cent shut off part. The way I look at it, they come with an ignition too and that thing rarely works!!
Sorry for getting a little long winded but if you’re like me, you just don’t like to invite any kind of preventable accidents into your life. I don’t trust the heaters for sleeping either and keep things well ventilated. I regularly use a sunflower style heater but they are the worst for carbon monoxide output. They do however work all the time…unlike the finicky heater buddies. Keep things ventilated, click them on and let them run for 5 minutes and click them off.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, lots of ice fisherman are going the route of “Chinese diesel heaters” and love them. They exhaust out the back when built properly. A search for “diesel heaters for ice fishing” should put you on the right path.
I just purchased this heater last year for sleeping in my ice hut. Completely safe but doesn’t put out a ton of heat. Basically it makes it comfortable to sleep when outside is very uncomfortable.
