Okay, I got this vent free space heater, natural gas fueled 20, 000 BTUs, off of amazon. So,
let's go ahead and see what it takes to install it. All right, this is what's inside of it.
Got the bracket, a battery, bag of hardware, and of course, the unit itself. Okay, we're going to
start by prepping this heater for installation. There's a few things we need to do before we can
mount it on the wall. So we'll start with those. This unit is natural gas only, so it doesn't have
the option for liquid propane. But many do. If you were to look at the bottom, and it had two,
this is natural gas... It would have one here for liquid propane. You would unplug only the one you
want to use, and then there would be a hatch on the back that you moved out of the way and
selected what type of gas you were using. But we don't have to do that for this one so essentially
what we got to do here, is simply remove the sticker like so, and then we'll remove this cap.
And that exposes the threaded fitting for the natural gas connection. And the fitting that it
requires is a 3/8 inch threaded fitting. And you will just screw it in there as so. But not before
you use this sealant tape... Plumbing tape. This is for natural gas, you'll know that it's for
natural gas because it'll have a yellow tint to it instead of white which is used for traditional
water plumbing. So I'm going to go ahead and wrap the threads in the tape and then I will install it
into the proper area here, and again nice and tight but you don't really have to reef on it
too much just make sure it's really nice and tight and snug. Okay here we are we've got the
tape around the the fitting and what we'll do is we'll put this in get it started by hand,
i'll continue tightening it with a tool until it's
in all the way. Okay I've got it in there pretty tight now, as tight as I could do by hand
and felt comfortable with. And if you ever worry about being not tight enough what you can do at
the end, is get some soapy half water half dish soap and you put the suds you mix it up with
the suds all over the connection here when you have the gas going and if it blows any bubbles
or there's any leaks it'll be very apparent first thing. And you don't have to put this tapered end
it doesn't require any of this tape, in fact you just tighten it by hand nice and tight and the
taper will create the the connection required. Okay, I almost forgot you need to unscrew the
starting button and install the battery. So essentially you just drop it down in there
just like that and you screw it back on. And you'll know it's working because if you push it,
you will see down there looks like we've got a working.
Okay, on the back of the unit we actually have to install these spacers at the bottom which is where
we are now. I'm not sure why they didn't ship with them in there, but we're essentially going to put
the threaded bolt through the spacer and then get our screwdriver
and screw it in. In the bottom left and bottom right corners, and that will be the spacers.
So, that's basically all you need to do with this unit and then you
grab the bracket because that's the next part of it, and when you install the bracket on the wall
it's essentially just going to hang on the wall like so. Once the bracket is on the wall so
it's simple enough to install the bracket we'll do that next and we'll get this thing hung.
You might want to just take a moment to measure and make sure where you're going to
put your bracket is not within the range of said clearances. Okay so I've got the bracket taped to
the wall, and what you do is you tape it to the wall and use your level to make sure that it's,
well, perfectly level. And once you do that you are going to mark the outside holes. They say
only mark and drill through the outside holes, I'm not sure why but it's what the instructions say
so I'm going to do that, and then I'll mount the bracket. Okay I've got her all drilled into the
wall so now all I've got to do is slide these two brackets into these two holes on the back of the
unit and it will hang. So, we have the heater on the wall, all ready to go. I can show you the side
here it's mounted on the brackets and the spacers are down below. I will be adding more space to the
spacers to just bring it out from the wall, just a fraction of an inch, but it should be good to go.
And the only thing we're missing of course is the natural gas connection. So, if we look below
that's the fitting I fitted earlier, and here I have the natural gas supply line from a previous
heater that I'm replacing with this one. So, again because it's tapered you don't need any of that
yellow tape, you can just go ahead and tighten it nice and snug and you're good to go.
Okay, I've got it on there nice and snug and used of course a wrench to do that so it is on quite,
well, snuggly. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on the natural gas next.
Okay, now before we go ahead and turn it on, what you're going to want to do is
get a vestibule of sorts, and fill it about equal parts water and dish soap...
And a liquid dish soap. And when you're done that, shake it up really good. I
did shake it up before and it kind of settled since then, but I'll do it again
and you're going to take that solution, and you're going to liberally apply the suds and the bubbles
around this connection and the other connection to your home, if you haven't tested it already.
And, you're going when you turn on the natural gas for the first time. You're going to watch
very closely for bubbles, or any type of spurting or hissing,
you want to make sure this is an airtight connection. Okay, I have the gas turned on now,
and as you can see no bubbles! No spurting! No, no nothing! So I would say that's a nice connection.
Okay, so now it's time to give it a start. Essentially what you need to do is turn it to off,
which is this position, and leave it there for five minutes... Even,
and perhaps it was switched earlier on, or you fiddled with it when it was being installed, but
make sure it's here for five minutes. That'll make sure any gas has cleared out.
Then, you'll push down on the knob here, and turn it to pilot. This is pilot. Now, in order to light
it, you will hold down pilot while pushing the start button until the pilot light ignites.
And there's the pilot light. After the pilot light comes on, hold the button down for 10 to
30 seconds, and if you let go and it stays on, then you are in business! Okay, and to start it
once you have the pilot going, you push down just slightly on the knob until it starts to turn. This
is high. And then... There we go! So, now it's lit. And to change... (oh it's warm up up here!)
to change temperatures, you push down slightly and rotate to medium
or to low, based on your desired heat level. And there you have it!
And in the end, you'll have a surprisingly attractive, and exceedingly functional space
heater. On high mode the heat coming off of this thing is just fantastic. I hope you found this
mini tutorial helpful and many warm winter days to you!