The Best Gas Heaters in Victoria

The two popular gas heaters you will see across Aussie households are flued gas heaters and unflued gas heaters. If you live in a permanent residence, you can install a flued gas heater. However, if you’re living in a rented house or want to avoid the trouble of installing flued, then an unflued or portable gas heater will be ideal for you.
Here we will lay down the advantages of both flued and unflued gas heaters, which will give you a better idea to select the one that suits your needs better.

Flued Gas Heaters Melbourne

Place flued gas heaters in one specific area in your home; they come with a pipe vent referred to as ‘Flue’ to move dangerous combustion gases from the interior of your home.

Flued Gas Heater

Benefits Of Flued Gas Heaters:
It is safe to run flued gas heaters, as only a modest amount of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and combustion gases reside in the room.
A flue gas heater is an excellent choice if you only want to heat one room or a small part of your home. Do you have a spacious living area? No worries, you will get larger sizes.
We recommend a flue heater for bedrooms and other small rooms where ventilation is inadequate. And remember that using unflued gas heaters in these areas is forbidden and illegal.
You can instal a flue gas heater onto an internal or external wall, with the flue either passing up through the opening or passing through the wall. You can have it with a remote control operation.
The flue gas heater is ideal for those individuals who have asthma or any allergies because flue helps emit pollutants away onto the outside, leaving a fresh and healthy room for you to enjoy.
Around flued gas heaters, less water vapour accumulates, which reduces the possibility of mould and mildew growth.
Unflued Gas Heaters
Unflued gas heaters are a more affordable, flexible option for your home. With this option, it requires proper ventilation to function, as there is no flue in the system, there is no other way for their hazardous gases to escape.

Unflued Gas Heater

Benefits Of Unflued Gas Heaters:

• Unflued gas heaters are portable! You can move unflued gas heaters with ease to any room within your home, provided the room should have an accessible gas bayonet to use it.
• Unflued gas heater provides instant heat and in decent measure and are available up to 25 MJ/h (Megajoules per Hour) capacities, equivalent to over 6kW of electric heating.
• No hot air leaks, all heat generated work toward warming your room.
• Unflued heaters are cheaper than flued gas heaters.
• They are very efficient – around 90% of the energy content of the gas gets converted into heat. All models sold across Australia must have certification and carry a competence label up to 6 stars (6 being the best).
• Different portable models come integrated with safety features to nullify risks attached to gas flames.

What Is Gas Bayonet Fitting & How Does It Work?
Portable gas bayonet heaters are widely in use across Aussie households. Portable gas heaters with the support of gas bayonet fitting get the gas supply of your home. The connectors contain male and female fittings. A heater connects to a permanent wall or floor gas-supply pipe fitting with the support of a gas bayonet fitting. The male fitting is fixed toward the end of the heater hose, and the female fitting is fixed to the gas supply line and secured to the wall or floor.

1.To connect, push in the gas bayonet and turn clockwise to lock it in place.
2.To disconnect, push inside gently, rotate anti-clockwise and pull out the male fitting.

What do you do if you smell gas?
Disconnect the bayonet immediately if you notice a constant leak.
Inspect for dirt or damage, including the O-ring inside the female connector.
Turn OFF the gas at the source if the female fitting continues to leak.
If the problem continues, it is better to call in a certified gas fitter.
If you need gas heater service in Melbourne, call us at The Gas Doctor on 0488 800 693, and we will send one of our experienced and Melbourne certified gas fitter plumbers.