YⓄ乙 to AusRenovationEnglish · 8 months agoCan someone please help me identify what's is this thing? its in the living room ,near a windowfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up115arrow-down1imageCan someone please help me identify what's is this thing? its in the living room ,near a windowfiles.catbox.moeYⓄ乙 to AusRenovationEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareephemeral_gibbonlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-28 months agoYou should really stop using it, particularly if you have a ducted aircon system as well. Unless it’s vented they’re quite bad for you. They banned them in schools about 15 years ago now because of it. Here’s a page from nsw health: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/factsheets/Pages/unflued-gas-heaters.aspx And from Victoria health https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/gas-heating-health-and-safety-issues They’re just not worth the risk, particularly because reverse cycle aircon is cheaper to run.
minus-squareApeNo1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoYikes. Looks like I have some googling to do.
You should really stop using it, particularly if you have a ducted aircon system as well. Unless it’s vented they’re quite bad for you. They banned them in schools about 15 years ago now because of it. Here’s a page from nsw health: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/factsheets/Pages/unflued-gas-heaters.aspx
And from Victoria health https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/gas-heating-health-and-safety-issues
They’re just not worth the risk, particularly because reverse cycle aircon is cheaper to run.
Yikes. Looks like I have some googling to do.