My wife and I will be celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary in March. We're thinking of getting a patio heater as a present to each other.

I just want one so I can sit outside in the cold weather and be warm while I enjoy a cigar. My cigar smoking drastically drops off in the winter, and I'm not happy about it!

But I'm trying to make the anniversary gift about "us" and not really about "me"..... anyways..... any of you guys have one of these?

I've browsed several sites, looks like 40K BTU's is about the norm. We're looking at a couple models that have a table top around the center post, which would be pretty neat.

Thoughts?

BTW, I'm well aware that this kinda heat could spontaneously set fire to the twig pile(s) in my yard. You can all KMA. 😛

I thought I wanted one of these, and got to experience one of them at a party this Fall. They are pretty sparse in heating. If there is even a 5-10 mph breeze, the heat is gone.

collect the sticks in your lawn and buy a burn barrel

Buy a shed and a snuggie.....she will love it!!!

Cheap Hotel room for an hour..

dont listen to them, buy the radiant heat one....

Charlie

If you want good heat you really need to go to a commercial unit.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Sense-Commercial-Unpainted-Stainless/dp/B000JGLVBC/ref=sr_1_69?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1262134369&sr=1-69 

http://www.backyardcity.com/heaters/Commercial-Patio-Heaters.htm 

I'm not sure how these work, if they are not "radiant" heaters, then it seems like a REAL dumb idea to me.

I'd try to bum approach.........get a fifty gallon drum and light a fire in it.

You can even burn some of the sticks from your yard(if they aren't too small).

My daughter and son-in-law bought us one of these for Christmas. It's a GardenSun, 87" tall, stainless steel, 41,000 btu, propane powered, heating s.o.b.

It works great on our screened patio. Wife and I sat out there tonight under this thing for about 60-70 minutes. I had a cigar, she had several cigarettes.

Temps in the upper 20's. We both had on our PJ's. No coats or anything. Snug as a bug in a rug. I'll admit, if it had been very windy, might have been different. So far, haven't had to deal with the wind. We love it!

I tried a big quartz shpo heater on my covered front porch. Fully lit, the thing would keep the upper half of my body about 10 degrees warmer than the ambient temp. Other than that, not much help. Still froze my nads, and below about 40 degrees, it was too cold, even with the heater blazing.

You may have better luck with this type of heater, but I'd try to strike a deal for somewhere safe indoors to smoke and offer to spend the money saved on a heater on her. Then you make her happy and stake a territory.

Been much, much easier on me since I moved my smoking habit into the garage.

BTW, next time TG comes by on his Schwinn, I suggest jamming one of those twigs in his front spokes.

Year Traditional (U.S.) Traditional (U.K.) [11] Modern (U.S.)

1st Paper Cotton Clocks

2nd Cotton Paper China

3rd Leather Leather Crystal, Glass

4th Linen, Silk Fruit and Flower Appliances (electrical)

5th Wood Wooden Silverware

6th Iron Sugar Wood objects

7th Wool, Copper Woollen Desk sets/Pen & Pencil sets

8th Bronze Salt Linens, Lace

9th Pottery, China Copper Leather goods

10th Tin, Aluminium Tin Diamond jewelry

11th Steel Scent Fashion jewelry, accessories

12th Silk Silk and Fine Linen Pearls, Colored gems

13th Lace Barometer Textiles, Furs

14th Ivory Clock Gold jewelry

15th Crystal Crystal Watches

I don't see no propane on that list..

I picked one up at Home Depot for $99 on black Friday. 8track's dead on: a little wind and it won't work, but on a clear day it does warm up the deck a little.

#12 I remember seeing that prior to my 7th anniversary. I recall wondering what comes after a desk set for an anniversary present...I suspect the 8th anniversary is a trip to the ER to treat an infected wound to the hand, initially caused by an errant letter opener.

For the garage I have a Mr Heater, 2 burners on it. Hooked it up to a large propane tank. It's a radiant heater and has a fan for convection heating.

It is 7deg F tonight. I've been tempted to get one of the jet heaters that runs on Kerosene to kick up the heat quick. We use to work on cars in the garage in February in South Dakota with those.

Have you seen the cost of kerosene lately? $10 / gallon. You're better off getting an oil filled electric heater.

Move to Arizona. 🙂

1. Author: tbrochin

"My wife and I will be celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary in March. We’re thinking of getting a patio heater as a present to each other."

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LMFAO! Are you f'n kidding me?

Your WIFE wants to have that heater too? Will SHE be using it too smoke cigars too?

Quit bull****ting YOURSELF and go buy the damn heater now, not in March when YOU won't need it anymore this winter!

I think I would make her BEG for the heater in writing before I believed that is really what SHE truly wants for HER 5th Anniversary...

Didn't we already cover this on the picture post thread? I am using one right now. I have a coat on, but even in the 30's it is tolerable underneath it.

Or get a Chiminea (sp?). They are nice. actual fire and lots of heat. You could burn your neighbors trees in it.