It heats a 12-mat room (12畳 12-jou), which was marked on the information tag in the store. It’s fairly no-frills: it includes a timer you can set to turn on or off, a clock, a child lock, and some chimes to beep at you if you’re running low on fuel or if you’ve heated the room sufficiently. I’ll admit I don’t know much about brands of heaters, but this one was rather inexpensive at 9,000 yen ($100). Everyone suggested that I get a kerosene heater for the winter for the sake of cost and efficiency, and so I bought a Dainichi-brand “Blue Heater” kerosene fan-heater at Komeri, our local home goods store. I live in a large, “well ventilated” (read: drafty and full of windows) apartment. However, I think if we can get the comments rolling on this post, especially from you old hands, we could make a nice little English-language guide for using kerosene heaters.Ĭlick here for a basic guide on buying and using your kerosene heater. And then you probably thought, “How the hell do I use one of those ?” I have to admit that, while I’m not new to living in regions with bitter winters, I am new at this whole “no-insulation, no-central air” thing. If you look at any of the posts about dealing with the winters in Ishikawa, you’ve probably noticed that kerosene heaters get a lot of recommendations.
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