![]() ![]() Ask the clerk at the place where you buy kerosene (see below) to dispose of old kerosene before your first fill-up. You cannot use the kerosene from last winter: it can ruin your heater and start a fire. It might be a good idea to have a bilingual friend or a coworker explain how to all the functions the first time, but here’s a really general guide to filling and using the heater safely. ![]() User manuals, Ge Water heater Operating guides and Service manuals. Download 145 Ge Water Heater PDF manuals. From my Dainichi Blue Heater instruction manual. Your DeLonghi portable electric heater comes in three pieces: the main heating unit. The instruction manual is probably going to be all in Japanese. ![]() (Save the instructions and the warranty!). ![]() It requires 40 seconds (40秒 40-byou) to get fired up, and it gets toasty quickly.* So, you’ve got your heater. 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).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. Click here for a basic guide on buying and using your kerosene heater. 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. And then you probably thought, “How the hell do I use one of those without accidentally killing myself?” 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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