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Outdoor Heating for Cool Nights

A heater is the cheapest way to add six weeks to each end of the patio season. The choice is mostly propane versus electric: propane puts out far more heat and goes anywhere, electric infrared needs a circuit but works under a covered porch where an open flame...

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A heater is the cheapest way to add six weeks to each end of the patio season. The choice is mostly propane versus electric: propane puts out far more heat and goes anywhere, electric infrared needs a circuit but works under a covered porch where an open flame should not.

Sizing is straightforward in still air — a 40,000 BTU freestanding propane heater warms roughly a 15 to 20 foot circle, a tabletop unit warms the people at that table and no one else. Wind cuts every one of those figures sharply.

Check the clearance the manufacturer specifies above the reflector before putting a heater under an umbrella, awning or pergola roof, and make sure any freestanding unit has a tip-over shut-off and a base you can weight.

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