Portable Gas Heater

[Biccylova]

I am looking for a portable gas heater to have on standby for power cuts, also to have on in the evening for an hour. I want one that has a gas bottle in the back that can be replaced easily and that will stand in my fireplace and look good, also are the spare bottles easy to get and what do you do with them when they run out ?

[Buenchico]

If you're going to use ANY bottled gas heater in that situation it's ESSENTIAL that you ensure that there's a good flow of air into the chimney AND that you've got a carbon monoxide detector in the room. (They're cheap: https://www.screwfix.com/p/dicon-co-di-9br-carbon-monoxide-alarm/2117g )

Clarke products have frequently been praised here on AB. They're sold by Machine Mart, which has branches in almost every town in the UK. So this might be worth considering:
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-mobile-gas-heater-mgh1/

When you first purchase a gas bottle you have to pay a hefty deposit on the bottle (which remains the property of the gas company). Thereafter though you simply exchange the old bottle for a new one, with the deposit being retained against the new bottle. Calor's current prices for a 15kg butane bottle are £77.99 for an initial purchase and then £38.00 when you exchange an empty bottle for a full one.

The information here might prove to be useful:
https://www.calor.co.uk/help-and-advice/calor-gas-heaters/types-of-calor-gas-heaters

[EDDIE51]

^ I bought a 15Kg empty Calor Butane bottle for 50p from the local scrap yard. Then exchanged it for a full one. They has dozens of them.

[Buenchico]

^^^ If you've got a source of empty Calor gas bottles at that price, Eddie, you can make some easy money. You can get a minimum of £7.50 for each one at any Calor Gas centre:
https://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/gas-bottle-return

[EDDIE51]

I only have the one. Use it for the BBQ.

[Biccylova]

Thank you all, there is some useful information there, better than I got from my oh who said we could get an electric fire, when I said we should have something in case of power cuts!