Garden and Patio Heaters
A garden heater is a great way of extending the year long use that you get from your garden or back yard. These heaters can be used on a patio, or any other area of a garden where there are chairs, a table, a hammock or a barbeque.
The benefit of a garden heater
These days, more and more of us take advantage of using our garden as an extension of the home and we regularly relax and eat there. The benefit of a garden heater is that it allows us to make greater use of this often underused part of our homestead by keeping a chaired area comfortably warm in the evenings, or on cooler days.
Patio heaters come in a variety of forms ranging from the kiln fired clay (terra cotta) or cast iron ovens to the tall, tower like, gas fired heaters. Heat from the gas heaters is almost instantaneous whilst the oven heaters require a warming up period.
Fossil fuel heaters
The traditional pot or cast iron evens burn wood or coal and provide a real fire as well as plenty of heat. These oven garden heaters have a chimney and often stand on small legs. They are attractive in a rustic and natural way, but because of their weight they cannot be moved around as easily as the modern gas patio heaters.
These heaters can usually be left out in the elements all year round without any detriment to their condition.
Gas fired patio heaters
Modern gas powered garden heaters use a gas cylinder and they can be moved around and stored indoors when not in use. Unlike the oven style heaters, they are light and transportable and some are even designed to project through the centre of a patio table to provide balanced heat for those seated around it.
Connecting the gas cylinder to the heater is a simple task and these heaters are also designed with a heat reflective umbrella like cap at their top which has the effect of bouncing the heat back down and over the people who congregate around it.
Both forms of garden heater have different power and heat outputs, dependant upon their size, and both can easily extend the useable seasons during which the garden becomes an extra room of the house.
If you use your garden regularly for parties and barbeques, then a garden heater (or patio heater) will provide your external space with additional utility and usability almost all year round.
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