Heating my home with a Chinese diesel heater. 

That looks tidy, I have a similar set up in my garden shed/workshop. I had the heater inside but it was a little noisy so I boxed in the underside of an outside workbench and piped it into the shed. Mounting the fuel pump onto something more solid than the flimsy steel on the heater cover really helped the noise. Works a treat tho.

Loved the sound of all the starlings and sparrows 👍

THAT is a brilliant idea! Im fitting one of these in my camper build so I think I'll put one in the house too!

Great job, I think we will start to see more and more of these types of installations. Just make sure your outside socket has 30mA RCD protection if you haven’t already. Especially if you use the spare outlet for a lawn mower etc.

Fantastic video Rob, very interesting I've never seen this type of heating before. It looks very simple to set up, I think I may have to look into it myself.

Great set up , have been thinking how best to use this heater for my garden office and your explanation and set is perfect a big thank you for sharing

Now that is a smashing good installation!

Nice setup. I think the reducers are good for the airflow, since you split the output air hose in two. I also like how you didn't use a permanent attachment to the house. I think your heater will last longer since it's not sitting out in the heat and humidity of the summer.

I’ve bought one of these heaters ready for my shed build. I’ve also been looking in to the condensation problem I have in the house and a PIV SYSTEM Positive Input Ventilation where you pump fresh air in to the home from the loft space, creating positive pressure which cures the condensation. When I first saw you were pushing fresh air in, my first thought was better to recycle the air, then you mentioned the condensation and EUREKA you’ve got a PIV system at a fraction of the cost, think I’ll have to order another heater 👏👏👏

'I've got one for both holes' cracked me up because that is what the wife is always saying ha ha ha ha ha , nice job on the installation has given me a few idea's form my external setup.

Its a great install, they are quite efficient I know a lot of friends using them.

Excellent build

Nice job. I've been planning something similar for a while. Everyone should be doing this until prices come down to something reasonable.

Very neat. Well done.

Good setup, the diesel heater produces dry air, and blowing in from outside means it’s acting similar to a PIV positive input ventilation system, (normally Loft fitted) producing a slight pressure in your home and escaping through gaps and holes etc, slowly pushing out damp air and introducing fresh dryer air. I’ve got a PIV in my loft and will be setting up my diesel heater similar to you in the summer. 👍

I installed mine inside a utility room I made. Used a wall Timbal for the exhaust, air intake is inside, ired up to a wall mounted home furnace thermostat with two time delay relays and a power supply.

Good job , well done

That’s actually a fab idea lol. We converted a camper. Might use one in the home.

You may want to consider drawing your air that’s to be heated from inside the house. I used to draw mine from outside and like you said about condensation, the near zero temps prevented the burner core from getting to full operating temperature. The result was it sooted up in no time and shut down. I luckily got way without stripping the unit down. I now run a pipe from inside the building and no problems since. Lots of moisture traps and job done 😎👍

Very well done.

Great video mate. Thank you. RU-vid at its best

Nice video. Good quality on the video and talk. Looks very nice, good work. 🎉👍

Well done.

Ingenious 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

👍 Nice job

Nice job iv got a diesel heater so this looks good set up

Nice clean job

Nice install 👍

Great video with some great tips Wish I bought one a while back as they have virtually doubled in price

Lots of good tips, like the 60mm concept. On my project list for next autumn. Heater prices are silly right now.

Great video........sounds like it works perfect

Nice job, i've got one of these for my shed, works out at between 5p and 9p per kilowatt hour depending on diesel price, which is great in comparison with 34p per kwH for electricity!

Just equipped my van with an Eberspacher recirculating diesel heater. It was fitted professionally under the left side next to the main fuel tank and I have the hose into the van but it’s not wired up yet. -1’ last night so sodding freezing in the sleeping bag!! I must get it wired in! 😅

Looks like you’ve done a great job there. Only one thing I would do insulate the pipes you can get some pipe insulation. Would you just keep the temperature up good job, 👏👏

Nice well thought out install..........Cheers

Great video! An update on the cost benefits of heating with one of these would be another good video 👍

Very clever my friend

Brilliant 🎉 well done 👍🏼✅

Love it. Care to take a look at mine with heat recovery both exhaust and air recycling and also dehumidifying.

Interesting indeed my friend. Cheers

Good vid thanks.

Genius👌🏻👍

The exhaust pipe can exit the building using the same method as a wood burning heater using a metal duct and a metal inside liner.

Nice installation, I done similar project I used plastic storage box/bench from B&Q as heater housing, I decided to buy one of these heaters after this last cold wave we had here in Ireland, and big impulse to do this was my gas bill :P. Due to house configuration (terrace) I was only able to do one outlet in the kitchen but still all downstairs get nice cosy warm after while, my wife love it she was sceptical on this but now she use it all the time. We use about 10-15 litres of green (lower tax) diesel per week , 1.10 euro per liter so is not to bad IMO.

Nice 👍👍👏👏

cool setup. the only thing I would add is to insulate your ducting pipes going into the house

Looks okay to me I put mine in a metal box outside and I like drawing in the outside air as well but I would say with those lengths of pipes that you have heading in the house for the Heat Ducks should be insulated

Thank you, good information. Haveyou considered lagging [insulating] the 75mm discharge tubes ? My shed heater draws and discharges air from within the shed and the discharge tube runs quiet hot, wasted heat in your case and tubes being effectively finned dramatically increases surface area.

I was surprised when didn’t mention insulation on those exterior hot air ducts? Very nice install. Bought one 5kw version recent and installed six metres of 75mm alloy chimney flue lining. The entire length radiates heat plus even lowest setting warm air is expelled at the outlet. Be ideal if the fan setting was independent from the diesel consumption, more speed at a lower setting preferable.

Richard Baker did some good work measuring the air speed and delta temperature on what was sold to him as an 8k diesel heater and this output was closer to 3kw not the 8kw he was sold. The 8k might be kilo calories not kw. If you are comparing electric rates you may not be getting what you thought. But still lower cost with the higher energy cost.

Looks great, a sound check?? inside and outside, might be worth another vid

Very informative and good video. Just spotted it , after I have just completed an almost identical setup at my house, to heat my conservatory. We live in a rural area with no mains gas, and we use Kerosene in our oil central heating anyway, so after reading that these heaters run great on Kersone, I bought a cheap hand pump and it only takes minutes to take 5 litres of Kerosene from the filling point, on our main oil tank to use in the diesel heater, much cheaper than buying diesel at the pump. Only a couple of things I have different, from your set up, which I thought I would share is that I made my external box from non combustible cement board inside and out, fixed to a cheap timber frame. I got the cement board from Wickes and is fire resistant and is weatherproof and can be painted. I rendered it with a one coat render to match the house. I made the lid from a old sheet of thin steel. My extended exhaust has a gravity run on it to remove any moisture in the pipework. I upgraded my exhaust silencer and this has a hole in it to drain any condensation. On the inside of the conservatory ( I only have one inlet), I originally had the same grille as you have but noticed that when the heater was on full blast, the hot air was red hot at the outlet but the air cooled as it passed through the room and gave a slight cold draft further into the room. I solved this by buying a cheap £18 mini convector heater from Amazon ( Oypla frost convector heater) and fitted it in front of where my duct inlet grille was, after removing the electrics from it and cutting a hole in the back which I extended the diesel heater duct into. I also fitted a couple of metal grille type baffles inside the convector to direct the air flow upwards sligthly, which also heated up with the heat from the air flow. Result was a big improvement on just having the outlet , with no noticeable cold draft anywhere in the room and the convector heater body gets hot ( as it is intended to do if used with electricity) and this provides a further area for convected heat in the conservatory. All my walls and anything entering the house are non combustible, so no fire risk anywhere , and even if the heater caught fire , it is contained outside, within the fire proof housing. I also have my battery charger / monitor inside with an extended 12v cable going outside. I can check the battery state easy on the charger / monitor led lights, and don't have it on all the time, only usually before I turn on the diesel heater and when it is running. I also fitted a battery same as you have, as I may need the heater, when our power goes out, which happens a few times most winters. Sorry for rambling on, but I think your set up is great and I would share my own installation details for anyone else to consider if they are thinking of this type of installation. The diesel heater has been an interesing project for me and cost me around £250 for all the parts and although we don't use the conservatory much throughout the winter, if we do want to use it , then the cost of heating it is much cheaper than the electric heater we have been using previously.

There is one more modification you could make in order to recover some wasted heat and make the system more efficient: Extend that air intake (the bigger one for the heated air, not the small air intake for combustion) by a few metres with a well insulated tube, running in a straight line. Then make a hole in it just big enough to poke the exhaust pipe into, as close to the heater unit as possible. Run the exhaust pipe down the middle of the air intake tube, such that the flow of the exhaust gases goes in the opposite direction to the flow of the air intake. Ensure that the exhaust pipe is at least a metre longer than the air intake tube, so that the final exit of the exhaust is a good distance away from the entrance to the air intake. Then put some thick insulation (of a non-flammable type such as glass fibre tape or rock wool) on the short section of exhaust pipe between the bottom of the heater (where the exhaust pipe starts) and the hole where it goes into the air intake tube. This will turn the intake and exhaust combination into a counter-flow heat exchanger: The cold air entering the air intake tube will be heated by the hot exhaust pipe running down the middle of it, recovering some of this otherwise wasted heat and making the hot air flowing into your house even hotter. This should significantly increase the temperature of the air flowing into your house for any given power setting, or allow you to use a lower power setting than you would otherwise need for the amount of hot air you want. These diesel heaters are essentially heat exchanger systems anyway, this modification just makes it more efficient.

Amazing setup, and thank you for sharing! I have a little tip - if you want to get rid of clicking sound of the fuel pump just hang it on elastic bands or zip tie, it will become almost silent. I have a question about the exhaust fumes. The house it's not a camper, it doesn't move. Does the fumes cloud builds around your house? What about your neihgbours, any complains?

What a progressive word we live in, going back to oil heating

As much as I love my diesel heater I don’t think I’d consider using it in the house 🤓 nice job though regardless 😊

Great job! The 2 long hoses with heat air must have thermal insulation !!! otherwise it will loose to much heat an poor efficiency when outside temperature drop.

ive had mine in since December the 18th and cut my combined electric/gas bill from £240 to 110 ish ....i run of kerosene aswell lovely and cheap i leave mine running all the time with my house being open plan with the stairs in the room it heats upstairs lovely to 21oC only cool room is the kitchen but i can deal with that

Hehe, mate, your voice is very close to Anthony Hopkins voice 🎉...nice setup !

You can run these heaters on domestic heating oil which is much cheaper than diesel.

Nice i have the same

Small solar cell on the roof of your outdoor cabinet , charge controller and small deep cycle battery, be fully off grid option then.

Good set up ideally should think about insulating the hot air pipes into house outside as you will get heat loss in freezing weather.

Loosing heat through piping, cover in loft insulation. I did i my caravan heat trunking.

The only concern to me is the exhaust pipe ends directly under the window. But great video and install. Thanks for sharing.

Just something to think about I'm seeing a lot of people now putting a egr cooler in the exhaust line and then being able to run a normal radiator and then doubles the heat

You got to find an air conditioner for summer to put in the box ;)

Thank you.

I'd cover that pipe with rockwool or fibreglass. More heat goes into the house and less lost in transit.

Thanks :-) 👍

I would add automotive filter on the inlet just to minimize dust to be blown into the house

Looks awesome , i just purchased the 8kw unit , what size is yours ? I too am seriously considering an outside setup like you have .

A friend did the same, these heaters are everywhere. But he is spending 80€ a month on heating oil/diesel plus a bit of gas for the main heater in the rest of the house. Asked him why he did not use an air condition (air air heat pump). He hat no explanation except that is costs 1200€. Well.....better heat, no fumes and cool in the summer and its cheaper long term. I heat/cool my house only with an air air heat pump, simple, easy to install, low costs. Runs 8 months of the year with PV modules on my roof. Dont have to buy any oil

Really good setup, niceley done. For backup heating nice to have on hand. I am wondering, did you have estimates on costs running this all day in winter if you had to? Do you plan to use a thermostat to trickle down the heater? I am curious how much diesel you hace stored in your garage?

Have a look into using quilted foil insulation wrapped around the hot air pipe

Preheat the air entering the heater by either wrapping it around the exhaust or the heating pipe

So sorry that this was necessary, but a pragmatic solution to a difficult economic problem. Could I also suggest a de-humidifier in the house? They are very inexpensive to run, and reduce your energy costs more than their running costs - an additional benefit is that they prevent black rot and other 'damp associated' problems (including condensation).

Nice set up. Might get one of these for my new garage. How much diesel does it use in a week?

Looking into this for the winter, did the control unit come separately? All the heaters ive seen has the controller attached to the unit

Hi Really like the set,was thinking of fitting one myself. Can you tell me where you bought your rubber bungs and your insulation for your outside pipes please? Regards Mark

Great installation. Just buy one for the room of my big Son which is not connected to the house - the room not the Son, but not so sure 😉- . Do you know if I can extend the exhaust pipe and put it verticaly over the roof? Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the video.. I just got a new diesel heater and thinking to do something similar. Is the neoprene duct suitable for very high temperature? Also, have you put the neoprene as an inner sleeve or within a metallic duct? :)

You need to heavily insulate the pipes as you will think it's air conditioning being pumped into the house running through a fridge plant, nice set up. I use about £2.50-£3.00 a, day heats most of my house, if l was using gas cost me£13 a day . I was a bit skeptical, but not anymore 😁

Also, you might want to think about using a solar panel to charge the battery for those longer power outages. You will continue to have heat with no electricity from the power company.

Brilliant videos. Unfortunately I live in the city. So my question to you or to anyone else is. Is it possible to convert or connect the heater to heat the water in my radiators of my house. If anyone knows how this can be done, please make a video to let us all know. Many thanks.

Great job on the setup, super clean! I have one of these heaters for camping and heating the garage in the winter. My only question is would it actually be cheaper than just running your furnace?? I live in canada and it gets cold as balls, i know i've gone though almost a full tank in one night while camping in -30 degrees. I know you probably wouldn't use only this to heat your house in the winter but even lets say to heat one room on low in the spring/fall you might get a day out of the tank? Diesel costs about $1.60/L around here, so $8 per 5L tank... what I'm getting at is my natural gas bill is around $100/month so much cheaper to just run the furnace instead of using this. But I do use the diesel heater in the garage because I don't have a gas line running out there and I am thinking about building a sand battery to capture the wasted exhaust heat.

It would be better to use the metal flexible exhaust pipes(extended) to create a small radiator for the taste gases so that it can distribute the heat before it goes out cold(or much colder). That was it's a double heating system. In addition, what fuel are you using? I use half diesel and half recycled sunflower oil. To purify the old oil, make a paste of Baking powder and water, add to warm old oil and then bring to a boi, stirring constantlyl. It will get most if not all the impurities out, which saves you from using several filters of diminishing sizes.

I was thinking about doing this at my house, I hadn't thought of splitting it between two room though. Had you thought about insulating the pipes coming in to the house? They must be losing quite a bit of heat.

Hi,very interesting, thinking of doing something similar, what amp hr battery did you use please,guessing 50amp hrs will do?

I'd go with a non flammable enclosure and ditch the battery and charger for a 12v dc supply. Apart from that I like your set-up.

Interesting video Rob, but you missed out the bit I was really interested in. Did it keep the house toasty (in cold weather) on its own?

Nice neat install 👍🏻. How did you extend the controller cable… and what type of cable did you use??? I think I am just down the road from you.. I’m in Wolves. Just subbed you. Notice you are a Slade fan 🎸💪. Jim Lea lives opposite my nephew 😊

Hey Brother.. this is the video i was looking for!! i am thinking of doing the same to my 140sq meter single level home, using 2 units on each side of the house.. do you mind some questions?... i plan the same setup, using batteries and a trickle/solar charger.. as my house is off grid and very far from public power lines i already bought 2 of these same units!! 1) what size are your rooms? overall sq meters heated? 2) temp difference outside vs inside? 3) do you run the heater 24/7 and is the fuel consumption as stated? or are you burning more fuel 4) are you using its own automatic temperature control? or are you using manual ON/OFF control? 5) any suggestions/recomendations for me?

*My dad got the smallest one of these diesel heaters he could find for his caravan, even on the lowest setting he had to have a window or two open, those things really push a lot of heat for little fuel, be great for a house am thinking.*

What about the gases that the bsttery gives off while charging??not worried about them being explosive?

I have a very similar diesel heater in my van. It is important not to use the heater constantly on the lowest settings. Give the maximum temperature and rotation of the rotor time. This prevents the build-up of carbon deposits and deposits from unburnt diesel fuel and subsequent damage

Any link for the y piece and the longer hose thanks

Ive got a cabin out the back. Its got the main office room then a partition for a shed. I was going to set the heater up in the shed side of the cabin. In terms of air intake should i pipe that outside? I wasnt going to bother as the main door to the shed is a corrugated door and there are gaps at the bottom where i can see the ground outside so i was hoping that would be enough to let it draw air in without much fuss. Also does the outlet duct get very hot? I was going to pipe that through the partition wall into the main room of the cabin, the walls are lined with wool insulation and i am just a bit conscious of the possibility of starting a fire

i see the air intake that goes straight to the heater, what is the other air intake for ?

Which make and model you used please i am intending to install one. Thank You kind regards