Heating A House With 12V Diesel Heaters (Great Power Outage Protection) -30c 

Look at that workshop, my hubby is salivating 😂

Excellent Blog As Always Ash ❤Giving People A Back Up Plan,And Alternative In The Present Fuel Crisis 💯❤️👏👏

Ash, you are brilliant, well impressed, stay warm.

A very useful content, thank you, Ash!

Thanks Ash for this clear explanation. I recieved a diesel heater the other day yet to be installed in my caravan. Looking forward to warmth and coziness as the winter outside roars.

Thanks That was cool explaining, house a area looks great. Nice one go steady

Fascinating. Thanks for this.

1:46 🐈🐁Sulky with her Mouse🤣 Great video Ash ! Very helpful straightforward information Thank you! ✊🏽🍀🙏❤

Excellent video and yes please on the insulation 👍

Hi Ash. Just discovered your channel. My heater arrived yesterday, the kind that’s encased with the fuel tank, pump etc. Once my extra lengths of 75mm pipe arrive I’m locating it all against an outside wall with heater pipe going through the wall in two places via a Y piece. This will heat a small lounge and similar sized bedroom. It is a back-up as I have oil fired central heating but also for convenience if I don’t want to heat the whole bungalow. Thanks for sharing your set-up with us. 👍🏻

I like the idea of the heat from the ceiling outlet 👍👍

I really like the idea of using one of these and see many people running them on waste oil too. One thought that crossed my mind was passing the exhaust through sand before it reaches the outside, perhaps a pipe within a pipe of sand or just a box. Then the sand would retain some of the heat like a thermal battery, if the heat was high enough you could even run a copper coil in the sand maybe and heat enough water for 1 radiator and install it in a bathroom or airing cupboard perhaps.. Great video, well explained and kudos to the one metre loft insulation :)

I use one of these as my primary heater in my house, gas is just too expensive these days. I run mine on heating Kerosene at £1.39/litre (05-02-23) and it heats the downstairs of my 3 bedroom house no problem at all. 10 litres will last about 3 days with the heater on all day on H-2 setting. Best £133 I have ever spent.

Thanks for explaining the intake and exhaust. Several other RU-vid videos never addressed this very important aspect of the diesel heater. It may seem obvious to some viewers. But the reason many of us watch RU-vid videos is because things that should be obvious to us.... are not always obvious. Rookies need to have things explained to them. Thanks!

Just got a Chinese diesel heater as emergency back up if we have problems this winter.... Great video thanks never get bored of the Northern Lights. By the way, about time we had another live stream with your better half on the Whisky! 🙈🙉🙊😁👍

Thanks for the info ,I am definitely going to consider this for my workshop project and yes please on the insulation video.

Hi Ash Great Video Mate Keep Up The Great Work Dude

Nice video! Hope the Swedish government keep their profile to do a good drop of diesel prices from 1 of January 2024. Cheers

Brilliant video Ash. Fabulous bits of kit. Look after them and they will definitely look after you. You can still get Red in the UK but so many restrictions. But you can still use it with the heating. If not 50 50 old engine oil and diesel. Insulation video would be interesting. Although with the lifestyle out there all videos are interesting and brilliant to watch. All the very best both. Take care

Great work. I run mine on Kerosene(28 sec heating oil) but add a few drops of lubricant to tank because it can damage the pump quite quickly. But costs very little and should burn a lot cleaner than diesel.

These wee diesel heaters are awesome....I heat my concrete garage / workshop with an 8kw version....its very comfortable inside when its -5 outside....thought about putting one in my van for those cold and frosty mornings ....Nice video thanks....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks ash brilliant video I've just ordered 4 of these I'm not going to pay extortionate price for gas anymore here in the UK

Enlightening and educational as always. Fully agree with the “redundancy” approach, in most if not all things that can hurt me and my family. I’ve just installed a 4m x 4m log cabin in the garden for my wife to use as a craft/sewing space, and have been considering one of these to provide its heating. I’ll definitely need a turret plate as the whole thing is wood! Also good to see you’ve got your Wera Advent calendar on your workbench for the run up to Christmas.

I love mine in my expedite van I've used in in Winnipeg Manitoba -25F kept me from freezing 🥶 now as for running waste motor oil that is a big no-no you will coke the inside of the burn chamber up really quick but you can run waste vegetable oil filtered really well mix it with 50/50 diesel or kerosene and that'll work perfectly fine it will burn just like diesel or you can add a little bit of gasoline to the veggie mix too which will help thin it out I've done that and never had a problem with it not burning

Really good video, thank you. You remind me of Tyson Fury!

Ash great video, cheers. Just one point I picked up was the availability of red diesel in the UK. Yes you can still buy it from some garages or heating oil supplier and in general it's about £1.50 a litre.

I plumbed a 5kw into an external shed and ran the pipe into the kitchen. It's been in for 2 years now and is amazing for instant heat until the log burner takes over. We have a 2 story stone and lime house and the livingroom and kitchen are open plan. I have mine set to 2.4 not the full 5.4 and it runs forever on a tank. I'm about to start experimenting with waste oil and mixing with diesel.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but you should slice off that exhaust 'Cannon' at the bottom of the front edge, otherwise you will start catching rain and snow in there and it will drown your heater. Nice Vid, very interesting :)

Excellent vid, like n sub

Is that the view from your home???? Stunning.

thanks

I am living off grid and have a 12 volt solar electric power system. Although I run my diesel heater on it's own 12 volt power supply. And I get my fuel from my local farm co-op, red diesel that is Tractor diesel aka farm diesel ⛽. No sense paying the hi way tax on fuel not used on the hi way. Also, I love the video footage of the Aurora in the beginning! Thank you.

For watchers in the UK. you need to find a supplier of domestic heating oil [Kerosene] Usual minimum delivery of 500 litres but the price is only about 90p / litre These heaters will run cleanly and reliably on this fuel. I get mine from a neighbour and just take an empty oil drum down when he is getting a delivery and we split the bill.

Thank you! Got one of those lying around wating for a purposeful install. I now have a 3x5m garage/work shed that is totally unisolated and rather open under the roof, but perhaps it will be usefull there anyway. There is an old fuel tank in the building next to it with a 3000 liter tank. Perhaps there will be some residual fuel oil in that :) And yes! Please show how you insulated the barn!

I had one in my van, as you do and they are so good. On a cold morning, full blast the condensation was gone in no time.

DAMNIT,mine came in without the fuel pump and I ordered the complete kit

Oh wow i said this ages ago why can we not get a deisel heater in the house ha ha brilliant video, sorry late to watch my Mum is terminally ill so going back and forth

I like it, as I make my own diesel from used cooking oil, I'll get one. It does get cold here in Australia in the winter.

Just fitted a bluetooth Maxpeedingrods one in our house for emergency backup use if the grid goes down, can't find red diesel any more but its seems quite happy running on 28 second heating oil which is about the same price as cherry.

Red diesel is still legal for agriculture, marine and certain other industries in the UK, including heating and generation of electricity in non-commercial homes, churches and hospitals etc. The law changed in April 2022 and industries like construction and plant hire were no longer able to use it legally. All said, the price has shot up and it's about twice the price it was when I was last using it in 2016.

To open a video from u, is like open a cristmaspresent thats guaranteed not to dissapoint. 💝 Show us the insulation, please, and show how important it is to NOT compress it. The isulation have one purpose, to prevent the air from convecting. Nothing more, nothing less. As a building engineer specialized in building low energy cost houses, thats the most common mistake I see done by diy,ers. 🥶 Cheers and thanks for your time and work Ash,, 🍻🍻🥰👍‍‍👍‍‍

You can still get red diesel if you are local to a boat yard like myself 👍🏼👍🏼

Ive watched 27 videos and finally found yours that shows that i CAN mount it on its side without any problems. Another thing is that the intake and exhaust ports are not marked so ho's to know which is which, mine has 4 outlets for the heat which will make it more difficult to plum, but at least i know now that i can put it on its side.

Thanks for the info Ash (I didn`t know this), yes your correct, as from April 2022, the UK government have effectively done away with red diesel, you now have to buy normal white diesel and pay full duty.😞

Have one in my travel trailer, motorhome, garage, jeep, and ice fishing shack….. they are handy but mount them properly for safety man….

You can buy "Red Diesel" (it is not always red) in many countries, it is normally without road taxes and mostly used for heating or in non road going machineries. I think that you can get it in Sweden as a "heating oil". Kerosine is another option, in some countries it is cheaper, in other not.

You should look into cutting the diesel with waste oil would significantly decrease your costs

I have and would buy the newer box silencers for exhaust and surprise the old tin plate silencer fit on the intake.

Just bought 8kw £82. Comes with everything. Fired straight off, no smoke. Using it as domestic heater. I charge battery on overnight electric so gives totally redundancy if temp. power cut.

already thinking about this 🤔

From the looks of one of your heaters, it does not hurt to run them on their side.

Great walk-through buddy! 👍🏽 Fan-heaters are cheaper than diesel-based heat in this heater - seriously??

I've just changed my fuel line as it was that crap green pipe, I love my crappy Chinese diesel heater. I want a wood burner as well but I've no space for 1. I'm gonna buy land and put one of those big summer houses on it and it will have a log burner AND a diesel heater in it.

Great video Ash, would love to see one on your insulation. Just a quick question did you turn the heater on its side to get the exhaust through the wall or just take pipes down then out? Hope I've explained properly 😁 I know in camper vans they go down through the floor. Thanks in advance

I guess you'd have heard about using an egr cooler on the exhaust to try recoop some of the wasted heat energy? is it something you have planned for the future or do you already have an efficient way of heating all your water?

I could see it being permanent if used in the right conditions. such as a camper van or anything smaller than 500 square feet, such as bedrooms or a small shed for a tiny house, for which you could also use one of those big oil drums. the ones that are around 150 gallons. or if you own your own shop and are using the leftover waste oil I use these in my own two-bedroom apartment; however, they are only fired once or twice a year. I kinda have my weird setup kinda. I have a trickle charger connected to a car battery, which keeps the battery charged all year, and then I have the heater connected to the battery itself. Then I have a readout on the battery that tells me when it is full, half full, and so on. then I have a 0 gauge run from both batteries to the front of the house. Because the rooms are right on top of my septic and drain fields, I did this so that if we lose power for longer than the battery can hold a charge, I can simply connect the ground and hot wires with battery cables. and leave the car running, which would be like 10 dollars overnight, but again, you can't complain when it's negative outside and you're cold.

I've been thinking of buying one of these for some time, and now the prices have come down a lot I think I will take the plunge. I'm hoping it will be a lot cheaper than running the boiler as the boiler is over 30KW compared to these heaters at 5KW. From what you are describing, I think one of these will be enough to take the chill off the air in the lounge and bedroom of my little bungalow. It doesn't seem to be very noisy, which is something I was worrying about, not wanting to pee off the neighbours. I can get kerosene locally. I didn't know about the red diesel being stopped. I wonder what the farmers use now. Thanks for another useful video. I would be interested in the insulation you use, just out of curiosity 🙂

@ ASH POLLARD Hi I just came across your channel whilst researching information about these diesel heaters in order to learn more about them before purchasing one. I noticed some constructive comments about trying to recover heat from the exhaust so that it didn't go to waste, but had you thought about fitting a diverter valve to the air intake so you could either choose to draw in fresh cold air from outside or recirculate existing inside air in order to achieve a faster warm up time. If you were to make up a stainless tube exhaust in order to recover extra radiant heat from the exhaust do you have any idea please how long this could be before the extra back pressure might affect the performance of the heater please ?

Hi I have a question... Would the heater be more efficient if the air intake was on the inside of the room sucking warmer air? Great video very informative. Thanks

Hi I'm from the UK where did you used to live I'm in Wakefield west Yorkshire thx great videos

As far as having to clean out the heater box on occasion, I wonder if the use of an additive such as Seafoam would make the unit run clean with very little residuals, almost indefinitely not building up sludge... I had the idea from some others that add used motor oil to the diesel, and have significantly increased BTUs, but of course, more buildup and sooner cleanout of the chamber...I mean like a clean out every few weeks to a month....Now an additive may actually lower BTUs on initial present continually even fuel flow, but if I could get the diesel to burn so clean that it rarely needed maintenance, I figure the efficiency would be cleaner burning and a long term net increase in BTUs because of efficiency of burn....Be nice to only have to clean the unit once in the spring...After a hard winter.....I guess what I am asking is that I think it is possible to get "The Awesome Mix...." Or "mixes"...Depending on whether you go straight diesel, or adjust for oil or other additives......That perfect , clean burning, mass BTU fuel ratio that may never have to be cleaned out, before the unit finally breaks down after 20 years when the fan bearings go out....I think it could be done and charted.... I mean, you could make a business out of making custom fuel for each application....Make it burn so clean that there are no environmental issues.....I have watched your channel lots....I think you are straight up good guy....Any ideas about fuel efficiency? I am interested in your take on this.... Have you done any research on this? I think this winter it may be important...I'm PNW/USA...Puget Sound....Not as brutal cold as you...But we have that sink in to the bone chilliness with moisture and arthritis pain, and mildew stuff here....Love ya Bro....I hope you respond. I respect your opinion.... I think it is possible....I grew up in a house that had a "Quaker" stove....fuel oil stove...But It wasn't very efficient for our small house. We "huddled" around it a lot.....I want to do better. But I think diesel is a great, high BTU fuel that is easily made, and can even be replaced with similar waste, or plant oils....And still provide heat...A survivor heat system....Free waste oil is available from restaurants and delis and others.... I'm going to be sad, and cry if a lot of Europeans freeze to their death this winter...Americans too! Especially if it is from lack of knowledge....Uh! Maybe we can help.....Thanks...Sorry I had to write a whole book......I am concerned...This may even be urgent...I don't want to cry.....But reliance on the modern system can kill ya. Even if you die....They still want your money.....They will just sue your progeny, or take your property....I think not....

over say a 24 hour period of them on high, how many Ah or Wh do they use?

I don't even live near an ocean. How am I going to come up with a hundred squid.

Hi Ash, just a question.can you put the air intake in the room you are heating rather than outside like the exhaust as i think it would use less fuel to run as the air entering the burn chamber would be much warmer than the - 30 degrees and so make it work far more efficiently what are your thoughts. ?

Where's the link to Chamonix 👍. When vans freeze to the tarmac ... Turn the diesel heater on Marie 😆♥

100 quid, who’s got dat much money sittin around?? I’d rather by me pints of Guinness and just pass out drunk! 🎉

The word is wood

I like these heaters, but how would I power it in case of a power outage? I need 12V and more than a batterie would provide for a longer periode of time!

What is your location with minus 36? Liked and subscribed.

Hi can you tell me can you extend the exhaust hose will this cause problems

I am heating my house's first floor to 65 degrees daily

is it running off a thermostat, and what do you think the price is per kW is swedish krones? 🙂

Could you show maintenance of heater? Thanks 🙏

can i extend the positive and negative cable on a diesel heater loom

I've installed one in my campervan build and it's great. I'm now investigating installing one in my girlfriend's flat which only has electricity. She gave in and turned on the heating and it cost her £24 overnight to heat up her storage heaters, and that is supposed to be the cheap rate. That is not sustainable on her salary. My biggest concern is the amount of noise it will generate because of the neighbours. Any tips for making the exhaust quieter?

Hello mate. I also live in Sweden about 4 hrs north of Stockholm. I am planning to buy and install a diesel heater at my cabin. We are not off grid but I do like the idea of redundancy. One question. How do you supply the power to the unit? Thanks in advance.

does the exhurst have to be at the bottom when setting it up. as i was think to put the exhurst on the side.

Every house should have a carbon monoxide detector and fire alarm just to be safe, I would make it law that you had one, My dad was a fireman and the things he told us i cant get out of my head even now, He said if they just had an alarm they may be alive today.

Neglect and abuse…yes, but torture? Didn’t sound like torture to me. Regardless, thank God the boy was rescued. Isn’t it weird how similar the “couples looks to each other?

Hi bud, 50/50 waste engine oil/diesel works and has a high btu output.

Hi Ash , does the fan have a brushless motor ? Thanks

I've been seriously considering these things, can it be powered by a 12 v power cable to the plug hole or has it got to be a 12v battery

As I see it, the only issue might be insurance policies. I don’t think these heaters are certified for indoor use - outside, blowing warm air into the house is likely perfectly OK - but not with the heater inside the dwelling. I would check with your household insurers…. Just in case ….

I'm also in Sweden and looking into this myself, what about using red diesel or eldningsolje? I'm sure it's cheaper.

ash good vid on the channel how heat you home with a heat keep up the good vid on the channel thanks lee

Im confused about the house though, like it had no fireplace and no electricity and no lng/oil tank??

You heats all your house with 2 heaters? How much m2 have your house?

Do you keep you heater battery on charge with a maintenance charger while in use .

i dont have a carbattery, can it work on 220v

Red diesel is still available in the UK Agriculture uses it its around £1.30 a litre at the moment.

I was thinking about heaters but I am unsure if I want a sticky slimy diesel tank anywhere about the hous !

They work better if you have the air intake in the same area you are heating.

David Mcluckie on YT has done loads of different tests using these heaters, check him out.

Please show insulation thanks

Pretty sure you are not supposed to mount those on their side. Exhaust needs to be down Incase it floods so it can leak out. I have 5 of these and all are mounted exhaust down.

Yeah it's kind of spoilt things a bit the erm slight fuel increase. Dono what is like getting kerosene there I was reading a comment below about mixing waste oil from what I understand it works but may clog it up quite quickly, if you had access to waste oil though ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c5Q_5XKDXK4.html that channel will likely give you some ideas how to use it in other applications ie waste oil burners.. he does a lot with rocket stoves and gasification which might interest you getting the most out of your burn with wood stoves, hell you can even make your own fuel like methanol but that's a bit more complicated and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mUsM5bcZpD4.html that channel seems to have done most things with diesel heaters you can imagine. Is a shame that such an cheap effective little heater has just started becoming used in wider applications and the price shoots up... Still nothing to do with 2*30 lol.

Not even seen this yet, and the price of heating at the moment in the UK….I might get one and extract it out of my window 😂