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Heater for wheel house

fishing71

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I had a nonvented in the house last year, took it out and put in a vented one that was "correct" size for the house. The nonvented heated the house up from

"0" in about 20/30 minutes. The vented, which was rated 85 % efficient took one hour to raise from 0 to 38degrees in the yard, no wind. Is there a better way to judge the size of vented heater needed than MFG stats?? Its cold for the grandkids. Thanks ..

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in my experience with vented, it does take a little longer, but not what u have described unless its way under powered. i have a 30000 btu and once to room temp, about 20 min, its on low the rest of the day. this is a 16 ft, on a side not, i supposedly have one of the top of the line models and have gone thru 3 in 8 yrs with the perm. not very happy at 600 a pop.

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Fish71 how big is your house and how many BTU's is the furnace? When I was building my house, I looked at what the manufacturers were putting in a similar house. I have an 8x16, and it looked like most manufacturers were using 16K to 20K BTU forced air furnaces. I bought the Suburban 20K furnace. I agree, that it seems to take longer, but it sure sounds like you are under powered.

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Some of our bigger six man rentals that are 12'x24' with 8' ceilings are heated with Empire direct vent furnaces. I just looked at them yesterday and they are 25,000 BTU units and they heat up those big houses from frozen to 60 in the amount of time it takes me to set up the house. Roughly 30-45 minutes and it has heated a lot of square feet.

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15-25K BTU for direct vent is common.

The 6.5x12 has a 15K BTU Empire

The 8x16 has a 30K BTU Suburban (w/blower)

The 11x17 has a 20K BTU Empire

They all heat the house fine but the big house does take a good hour to warm up were your comfortable. A few hours into it when everything thaws out your putting it on low.

You could consider putting a sunflower heater or two in it until the furnance warms up? We do this in the big house.

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