Craft‘A’Camper - Mobile Diesel Heater Fitting

[T6ChrisO]

Just wanted to give a thumbs up to Josh at Craft A Camper for fitting my diesel heater yesterday. Josh does mobile diesel heater installations at the comfort of your home. second time I've used him and wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to anyone on here.

Diesel Heaters - Craft'A'Camper

UK wide coverage of camper services with bespoke needs to suit: From full conversions to smaller standalone installs of Diesel Heaters, Camper Electrics or certified Gas Installs. Contact Craft'A'Camper today!

www.craftacamper.com

 

[den]

Just wanted to give a thumbs up to Josh at Craft A Camper for fitting my diesel heater yesterday. Josh does mobile diesel heater installations at the comfort of your home. second time I've used him and wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to anyone on here.

Diesel Heaters - Craft'A'Camper

UK wide coverage of camper services with bespoke needs to suit: From full conversions to smaller standalone installs of Diesel Heaters, Camper Electrics or certified Gas Installs. Contact Craft'A'Camper today!

www.craftacamper.com

Just wanted to give a thumbs up to Josh at Craft A Camper for fitting my diesel heater yesterday. Josh does mobile diesel heater installations at the comfort of your home. second time I've used him and wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to anyone on here.

Diesel Heaters - Craft'A'Camper

UK wide coverage of camper services with bespoke needs to suit: From full conversions to smaller standalone installs of Diesel Heaters, Camper Electrics or certified Gas Installs. Contact Craft'A'Camper today!

www.craftacamper.com

Ditto! A big thumbs up fro. Us too. Josh at Craft A Campers came and installed an under van external diesel heater today on out T6. Excellent processional job and really nice genuine guy. Highly recommended.

 

[banksey88]

Just wanted to give a thumbs up to Josh at Craft A Camper for fitting my diesel heater yesterday. Josh does mobile diesel heater installations at the comfort of your home. second time I've used him and wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to anyone on here.

Diesel Heaters - Craft'A'Camper

UK wide coverage of camper services with bespoke needs to suit: From full conversions to smaller standalone installs of Diesel Heaters, Camper Electrics or certified Gas Installs. Contact Craft'A'Camper today!

www.craftacamper.com

Hi, looking at getting a diesel heater fitted myself and came across Craft’A’Camper. Just checking all is still good with your heaters and you would still recommend? Do the heaters heat the van up nicely?

 

[T6ChrisO]

Hi, looking at getting a diesel heater fitted myself and came across Craft’A’Camper. Just checking all is still good with your heaters and you would still recommend? Do the heaters heat the van up nicely?

Not used it since it was fitted as the vans for sale but I know it works as he fired it up before he left. Yeah 100%, definitely heat the van up nicely!

 

[cocky9]

Ditto! A big thumbs up fro. Us too. Josh at Craft A Campers came and installed an under van external diesel heater today on out T6. Excellent processional job and really nice genuine guy. Highly recommended.

Just wondering how you’re getting on with this? Did you go with the unbranded one or the autoterm? Reasonable price for the unbranded one

 

[soldas]

Had an unbranded one fitted under the van by Josh and couldn't fault him. Top guy.

Has worked flawlessly for over a year.

 

[Howzat]

How much?

 

[T6ChrisO]

How much?

Prices on his site (see my first post)

 

[cocky9]

Perfect. Can’t justify the extra £500 for branded if his one works great. I think a great price also considering he comes to you nationally and fits

 

[Dale7920]

For those that have had the craft'a'camper heater fitted, I've seen on their site they use the 5kw Chinese heater but with upgraded parts. How do you find the heat output? I'm a little concerned it'll be too much having read other posts about 2kw vs 5kw. Thanks in advance

 

[FaithfulDonkey]

For those that have had the craft'a'camper heater fitted, I've seen on their site they use the 5kw Chinese heater but with upgraded parts. How do you find the heat output? I'm a little concerned it'll be too much having read other posts about 2kw vs 5kw. Thanks in advance

Looking forward to having mine fitted tomorrow... will let you know if it melts my socks!

 

[FaithfulDonkey]

Socks Melted!

Josh popped over last Wednesday and did a cracking job fitting the 5KW heater - cannot fault the service and value a a great guy to boot!

He manged to route the vent up underneath my fridge unit - just needed to sort a bit of ducting out to avoid it boiling my beers. I was going to fabricate something with some sheet aluminium, but thought I'd start with what I could find in the garage because it was too grim to nip to the shops. Anyway, who knew radiator foil can be so effective? A ply box lined with 2 layers of the foil and, despite the vent chucking out 90 degrees for an hour or so, the wood never rose above a modest 25 degrees.. think my eyebrows would spontaneously combust before any chance of smoldering ply. Happy days

FD

 

[Dale7920]

Socks Melted!

Josh popped over last Wednesday and did a cracking job fitting the 5KW heater - cannot fault the service and value a a great guy to boot!

He manged to route the vent up underneath my fridge unit - just needed to sort a bit of ducting out to avoid it boiling my beers. I was going to fabricate something with some sheet aluminium, but thought I'd start with what I could find in the garage because it was too grim to nip to the shops. Anyway, who knew radiator foil can be so effective? A ply box lined with 2 layers of the foil and, despite the vent chucking out 90 degrees for an hour or so, the wood never rose above a modest 25 degrees.. think my eyebrows would spontaneously combust before any chance of smoldering ply. Happy days

FD


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Fantastic! What do you think of the temperature? Do you think the lowest 5kw is too much for the transporter?

 

[FaithfulDonkey]

As I havent had a 2kw before its hard to say.

But if you wanted to leave it on all night on the lowest setting, think you may be stripped down to just a winning smile and a damp flannel on your forehead by midnight! But for what we want, a good blast to take off the chill after a wet day in the hills, suggest the bigger unit is going to get up to temp quicker with no real downsides...will probs last a bit better as less stressed on lower fan settings and shorter run times...but that is just a guess really.

Hope this helps!

FD

 

[oldiebut goodie]

The downside of running a 5Kw heater at constant lower speeds/outputs is that they carbon up far quicker than a heater run at maximum heat the majority of time.

Here is an example of someone fitting too large a heater - they should have fitted a 2Kw not a 3.5Kw. This heater was prematurely coked up.

 

[FaithfulDonkey]

The downside of running a 5Kw heater at constant lower speeds/outputs is that they carbon up far quicker than a heater run at maximum heat the majority of time.

Here is an example of someone fitting too large a heater - they should have fitted a 2Kw not a 3.5Kw. This heater was prematurely coked up.

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...may have to change my forum name soon then

 

[JumpShip]

You'll have to run it periodically on full whack to keep all that in check .