Garage Heat

[Joe Mopar]

Just wondering what all you guys in the cold part of the country use to heat your garage? I'm using a temporary gas heater which just crapped out but want to install something permanent for next winter. I'd probably go with something run by propane. Ceiling mounted infrared heater perhaps.

 

[hunt2elk]

For the money something like a Modine Hot Dawg works well. Electronic ignition, power vented, propeller fan, 80% efficient. Top of the unit to ceiling is 1 inch so they don't take up much room. Radiant tube heaters would work too, but they are alot more $$ and take up more space. Whatever you do, don't buy one of the non vented wall mount radiant type. Just my opinion but this is what I do for a living.

 

[Musclecarmania]

heater

Hi Joe,if you can swing it go with a gas fired radiant heat source,they are great for shops in cold weather. They heat the objects and the floor in your shop. when you have to open your overhead door it recovers very fast

 

[rdrunner1974]

My son-in-law has a mobile home furnace in his 24X40 shop. Works well, runs on kero but I think you can get LPG burners for them. Gets cold here in Vermont and the furnace keeps the shop warm.

 

[godfatherofchry]

I use a oil fired funrace out of a mobile home keeps the shop good and warm and I think its cheap to operate.gas scaers me.and is not much cheaper.these furnaces you can sometimes get for free.I gess thats the main resone I have it.....

 

[dla4567]

I use a 90% eff. gas furnace. Has sealed burners and draws outside air for combustion so it doesn't suck in fumes from gas, paint,etc.. Can also add a/c to it.

 

[69 Runner]

Several year ago I visited a guy's shop up in Kansas. Was around 10* outside, but was toasty in his shop. What he had for heat looked like a bunch of stove pipe, 4-5" in diameter weaving back and forth near the roof. He said it had a single burner at one end, and the other end (which was quite some way away from the burner) was vented to the outside.

Never seen anything like it before or since, but it sure did the job.

 

[Pistol Pete]

In-floor hydronic. It's the cat's ***.

 

[Deleted member 214]

Mr. Heater 25,00 btu gas radiant. I had one in a 2-car attached that was well insulated except for the door; the pilot light alone took the chill off, and when fired up it was a pleasure working there in Ohio winters. A street rod buddy in Indianapolis bought one and loves it. I put one in my new garage when I moved. $300 bucks. http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Heater-000...?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1267312477&sr=8-24

 

[detmatt1]

I ran a gas line out to my detached garage and just have a small wall unit with a shelf above it and a box fan on the shelf. Even when it gets into the single didits outside it doesn't go below 40 in the shop. I also insulated the attic and lined the walls with rigid foam which helps to keep the heat in and also brightens up the space. If it is above 20 outside it gets to about 50 or better. It is a 20' x 36' garage and it basically costs me $60 a month to heat it in this manner and I keep it on all the time. I got almost everything to do it used on craigslist, including the gas line and it was really cheap.

 

[wannadrag]

Wood with gas furnace backup

 

[66_B_Body4ever]

plumbed in natural gas space heater...works great, thermostat controlled.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Light a Chevy on fire and push it in the corner :rolling:

 

[69HEMICORONETR/TCONV]

55,000 BTU, Kerosene space heater, don't need as mush heat here in the south as you Northern Guys do.

 

[old tired rebel]

55,000 BTU, Kerosene space heater, don't need as mush heat here in the south as you Northern Guys do.

Yeah a bunch of gets together with enough hot air to heat up a garage. :rolling:

 

[scotts74birds]

Mobile home furnace, ceiling fan. Used 1-1/2" rigid foam board to insulate the garage door, and FRP board with liquid nails to cover that. Foam+Sparks= Bad.

 

[Donny]

Down here in TX, I use a Kerosene heater for about a month, then, open the door year round!

 

[detmatt1]

Mobile home furnace, ceiling fan. Used 1-1/2" rigid foam board to insulate the garage door, and FRP board with liquid nails to cover that. Foam+Sparks= Bad.

Yes foam and sparks are not good and I should mention that I do take many precautions when making sparks. Every one should have a fire extinguisher or 2 handy as well, foam or not!.

 

[Musclecarmania]

that's a good system roadrunner,that's radiant heat,the flame is cntained and it heats only the objects in the shop that in turn radiate the heat,it does not heat the air

 

[RDuck]

I use a home built wood furnace.
Took a 45 gallon oil drum on its side, cut out one end to make a door.
Peice of 6" pipe about 6" longwelded to the top side near the back.
Put another 45 gal drum on its side above it, welded the pipe to it.
Chimmney pipe welded to the top side of that near the front.
Whole thing built with an angle iron frame around it, wrapped in tin.
Added a furnace fan to the back to blow air through it and a thermostat mounted into the tin to kick the fan on when it got hot.