Removing Furnace

I removed ours.
Resale just an odd concept for me, truly has no meaning. Ive never bought anything with the intent of getting rid of and so limit what I may or may not do.

Our furnace gas line was connected to a gas flair tee using a flair fitting, I simply capped with appropriate brass gas flair nut. I removed because we also didn't use, used a small bottle cat heater. Though removed more to utilize the space it occupied which was the entire forward bench seat box. Our main heater now is a Wave3 or small electric when available with the bottle cat as backup.

Where the furnace box sat now is a large box on a slider for water, rack for 1# bottles, small area to outside wall can be accessed by a door, replacing exterior furnace grill. Used interior air exchange grill for inside door. Cut bench top in half & hinged so also accessible from top. Where the vents ran (3 outlets were contained in seat box) is now an added VERY large drawer for Margarets towels & stuff, smaller upper drawer was already there. Always thought on capped outlet I'd run another valve & coupler for outside BBQ but just never have.

Though furnace and documentation is in a box its never going back in.
As our elctric bill is going thru roof contemplating installing it in shop. Any way you 'could' leave or use outside grill to cover hole, just sealing so its not open. I had a door from previous project. What the heck- heres some pictures...


Drawers & 'new' inside door, attached inside grate to a piece of ply and piano hinge.

How divided, slide out box tray we carry 4 (1)gal water, magazine rack & holder for 3 1# propane bottles (new & empties, partials go in basement tray). Outside accessible side normally keep the T/L arms & stuff. Pic before door added was sealed with duct tape & plastic bag,

Tray rolls out, piece of 1/4 ply on drawer brackets.

And matching door-it was from other side of camper where it had been replaced with a larger door 5 years earlier..

Things you could do..ours as I mentioned was in seat box so easy re-utilzation of space. If I hadnt planned on re-using the space-furnace probalby would still be there.

20-30lbs won't make a cup's worth of difference in fuel consumption over an entire season's worth of travel.

I can see 20lbs here, 30lbs there adds up, on stuff that's NOT bolted down...

There's also the matter of the gaping hole in the outside of your camper for the furnace exhaust that will be open and uncovered. Duct tape?

Thank you all for the replies.

We want to remove it because we do not use it, we use an electric heater most of the time and can use small Buddy if needed.

We live in the South and most of the year it is warm enough not to have any heater, so why carry around that extra 20-30lbs. all year long, even in the summer?
With the electric heater or Buddy we can take it out and store it during summer.

Resale value is not an issue since I do not plan to destroy anything making it impossible to re-install later.

Thanks about copper cap. I hope that is not a weld install.

Take care, Del

RoyB wrote:
... I want to remove mine as well and replace that area with a Hydronic Heat Registers giving off heat from my hot water heater.

Will look something like this in my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer..

That's an interesting option, and I've never heard of it before. I wonder how well a strategically-placed "gravity" radiator (no fan) would work.

I'm the opposite of the OP: the furnace has saved my bacon a few times, but I rarely use the water heater.

When we remodeled our kitchen, we put cabinets on two walls where baseboard radiators were installed. I put in an under-cab hydronic unit like the one pictured. The fan noise was mildly annoying, but that one 24"-ish wide unit replaced 20 feet of baseboard and heated the kitchen just fine.

Let us know what you do to remove it. I want to remove mine as well and replace that area with a Hydronic Heat Registers giving off heat from my hot water heater.

Will look something like this in my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer..

Photos from google search

My propane furnace is way too hot for us and is also way to loud to use. Wakes me up everytime it kicks in...

Roy Ken

I removed mine when we installed the reclining love seat. We had never used ours from new. We use a small 110v unit or a little Buddy propane when boo docking. It's easy to unwire when you can get to the wiring....don't know what that might entail in your unit. It probably weighs about 20lbs. It's not veery heavy. Put a cap on the line at your tee that feeds your fridge and water heater. Make sure to use a copper cap.

Any weight savings will be more than offset by a reduced resale value for not having a furnace, unless you find the perfect buyer when you decide to sell.

A Suburban SF35 weight just under 35# as an example.

I can see why he might not need to use, but I don't understand removing it?

Bill

Why would you not use the furnace? It is not particularly hard to remove, just be sure to seal the gas line.