Off grid cabin with radiators - can I use a LPG tankless water heater to space heat the cabin and also heat a shower?

[oneorangedog]

We have recently acquired a woodland with a log cabin. The cabin has 5 rooms including a shower room and is insulated. It is very much in need of repair throughout, but it also has [hot-water] radiators in some rooms which I believe used to be plumbed to a stove /back boiler [no longer there].

It also had a tankless water heater fitted outside [also no longer there], where the gas bottles stand which I assume made instant hot water for the shower.

My question is: can I use a LPG tankless water heater to do the shower hot water and also the space heating?

[edit] I guess I need something like a small combi boiler, but one that uses LPG instead of mains gas - are they available at all?

Thanks!

 

[Mottie]

They use them in caravans. Do you have power? Do a search on LPG combi boilers for caravans. I might be wrong but I think most boilers can be made to run on LPG by changing the jets.

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[JohnD]

Woodland, you say?

Why don't you want a stove?

 

[oneorangedog]

Woodland, you say?

Why don't you want a stove?

Hi, we have a stove there now, but its not a back boiler stove. We didn't want to have to run the stove just to heat the radiators/water.

 

[oilhead]

An LPG water water only heats up the water passing through the taps, so no radiator faciity.

 

[Rodders53]

You can get LPG combi boilers. Late father in law fitted one in his static to replace an instant water only heater. The heating (rads) were filled with antifreeze to survive the winter shut down on the 10 month site.
His was inside the caravan / dwelling.

Almost any brand of gas boiler will work with LPG from cylinders or bulk tanks - the burner jets are different but readily available.

No doubt one could be fitted in an outside enclosure if desired, rather than in the cabin itself.

They eat gas cylinders though and it's an expensive way to buy LPG. They are heavy and will need a suitable access track for delivery/cylinder exchange. If you already have gas cylinders it will save a hefty "rental" fee for them.

 

[JohnD]

Multifuel boiler will run cleanly on wood from your woodland, or other material, can heat radiators and HW. And cost far far less to run.