and we had a cracked heat exchanger on our old corner unit gas space heater give us all CM poisoning and bloody noses in our sleep until my father figured out something was wrong. when I was a kid we did use a kerosene heater to help heat our house for a few years when money was tight. The same feeling I would sometimes get when tuning my car in the garage with the garage door wide open. I still get sick feeling sometimes if its really cold out and im running the fireplace in the livingroom all day. They are also technically supposed to be vented by leaving a window open a crack or if your house is not insulated like mine the drafts coming through the baseplate and plug outlets help. This is why they are now banned in some states. For one you cant burn scented candles or even use household cleaners without the fireplace burning the airborne fumes which leaves soot or can make you sick and can also make the burner contaminated effecting the efficiency which it burns which does cause them to create more carbon monoxide. The indoor vent free firplaces and heaters (I have four of them in my very old and drafty home) do have drawbacks too. they produse a lot more carbon monoxide than the flame on an oven or stove (which is often vented with a fan anyway) basically the same reason you arent supposed to use a gas bbq grill indoors. Click to expand.The very big difference is in general, ones designed to be used indoors and to burn cleaner with more efficient combustion and the other is designed to make more heat in a driveway with no regard to such things.
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