Yikes! That is an unvented unit, and you are taking your life in your
hands -- you have been suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Please vent the exhaust outside, or get a different heater. If you
are heating with the exhaust from a combustion process, you are
risking your life.
Donald.
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> I actually have a 100,000 BTU heater in my garage. My dad is a general
> contracter, and his workers use it on their job sites sometimes. It gets our 3
> car garage really really hot. Like a sauna. Considering we have the same size
> heater to heat our entire house, it gets warm pretty quick as well. The only
> problem is that it uses propane from a huge tank. Somewhere in the system,
> there is a leak, and the garage gets very odiferous in a few minutes. On cold
> days it reaches the point where our nostrils and throats sting. We are forced
> to open the garage, defeating the entire purpose. It also gives everyone else
> in our house a headache, and one time i woke up on the laundry room floor out
> of nowhere. I would suggest another source of fuel.
>
> Kris Powell
> 1974 Spit 1500
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