Heating
As we rest up in Florida I'm still working on our ultralight trailer, with this cold Florida weather, giving thought to heating.
Presently we use an electric blanket to warm us during the night, never turning on our gas furnace or electric heater at night. Once we wake we usually turn the 1500 watt electric heater on to warm the trailer before breakfast.
We virtually never use our propane furnace, finding it noisy and inefficient user of propane.
We dislike the noise of the electric heater and the propane furnace. As a result we are considering two solutions to for heating in our new trailer. For boondocking we are going to install a 10,000 BTU ventless propane heater.
For hooked up environment we plan to install under floor electric radiant heating. The advantage of both schemes is that they do not have the noisy aspect of the traditional gas furnance or fan driven electric heater.
We had radiant heating as a child and I loved it.
As well the new trailer should have at least an R-15 ceiling and R-10 floors and walls.
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Norm and Ginny Milliard
1982 Sunline 15.5 SB
2004 Honda CRV 4 cyl, manual
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