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They aren't illegal here. We bought one 3 years back when we bought our home, a good Rinnia one, but didn't realise at the time about the eimssions.
My partner has breathing problems sometimes, she's sensitive to dust, cats, and other things. We discovered this winter that her breathing problems got considerably worse when the gas heater was used, so we have largely banned it, but still use it occasionally for a boost, like for 15 mins in the morning. Make sure the place is well ventilated.
We plan to eventually replace it with ducted reverse cycle, we already have the ducting for an evaporative system so it makes sense. Just a case of when we get around to it and when we feel that we can spend the money on it.
For us gas heating was an option because the house has gas points everywhere. But in reality it costs more than our wood fire to run, it's the most expensive form of heating for us, because we're on bottled gas, with each bottle costing $85, and if using the heater heavily we'd go through just over a bottle a month.
Roger.
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