does burning a ventless gas heater make your gas bill go way up?

Question

i have a ventless gas heater on the wall of my basement. i was thinking of burning it steadyto help heat the basement and the floors for upstairs. do these cost alot to run.

Answer 1

Caution! a vent less heater is dangerous. If you read the owners manual, it states to use with a window slightly open....why?
Any time you burn gas, propane or natural, there is what is called products of combustion. One of them is carbon monoxide. This is the gas that you hear every year that kills people. I work for a gas company in Michigan. Whenever we come across them in a customers home, we are required to disconnect them to to liability issues. Good luck!

Answer 2

Carbon monoxide is a byproduct of combustion (burning), which is how gas heaters produce heat. Electric heaters pass large amounts of electricity through wires, causing them to get hot (like a clothes iron, if you opened it up). Because of how they work, electric heaters do not produce carbon monoxide if they are operating normally. If anything goes wrong that would produce carbon monoxide in an electric heater, it would also produce smoke and make it obvious something was wrong. What would be a far greater danger with the electric heaters is if water spilled on them. Because of the large amounts of electricity they use, they could become a shock hazard (but most likely the fuses or circuit breakers would trip and shut it off). The biggest problem with them during normal operation is that because of how they are usually designed, they are not as efficient as gas units and therefore more costly to operate. This is also usually true of things like gas and electric stoves, clothes driers, water heaters, etc. If you are concerned about carbon monoxide, anything that uses combustion to create heat or other useful energy can produce carbon monoxide. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

It will make your gas bill go up, if it doesn't make your house furnace work less. Expect it to incraes your heat ibll a little. You can figure out by calculating how much gas it uses, and then looking on your gas bill for the rate you pay for gas.