Shop heat

[Roger63]

Anybody using a pellet stove in your shop? Pros, cons? I've been looking at them and can't really find anyone that's using one.
Thanks

 

[BB BELLA]

My BIL uses one! it's not a huge shop maybe 18x18 and usually about 100F in there! He just does wood working so no gas around, not sure how safe it would be with flammable vapours in the air!

 

[PlymCrazy]

 

[bm02tj]

You want your source of ignition 24 inch above the floor

 

[Roger63]

I'm just looking for real experience, it's seems every year it just feels a little colder and I hate it a little more. I just want to be comfortable in the shop.

 

[mopar 3 B]

You want your source of ignition 24 inch above the floor

But I want my heat in the floor not at the rafters. I know it's a Canadian thing, the floor will never be warm.

 

[dadsbee]

I burnt wood in Gramma's parlour stove for 20+ years and never blew the place up! After having to "hide" it for the 2nd insurance inspection I just left it out. I did install my oil furnace up on top of some three drawer file cabinets however to be well above "legal" height from floor.

 

[1STMP]

A friend of mine built a closed system
with a small hot water heater which
supplied hot water/anti-freeze thru
a heat exchanger. A thermostat
controlled an inline pump and fan.
This was a while back, but with used
parts, the setup up cost him around
$200.00. It worked great, keeping
his shop at a constant 75 deg. He
could leave the system on during
the night unattended.

 

[dartforforty]

But I want my heat in the floor not at the rafters. I know it's a Canadian thing, the floor will never be warm.

Radiant heat in the slab will warm the floor and the shop.
Has to be installed before you pour the slab.

 

[G.V.Charger]

Installed a Harman P61 pellet stove in my shop, 35 x 75, a month ago. Have been heating with heating oil for 25 years, at 80 cents a liter it would cost me 4 to 5 grand a season, heating oil right now is around two dollars a liter, yeah right, so heating oil used to cost me about 20 to 25 a day, now double that. Was using a wood stove, however, shut the shop down around nine, load the wood stove, which would last maybe 3 hours, and be out when returning to the shop. The Harmrn P61 holds two 40 lb bags of pellets , I built a hopper extension over the weekend to add a third bag. and my unit runs low fire constantly and high fire when I'm present. Still new at this, but it seems to be working. Next year, outdoor boiler being installed!!

Oh, yeah, that stove, the P61 , has a connection for outdoor combustion air, so a sealed combustion system, no fire hazard in the shop.

 

[moparedtn]

A friend of mine built a closed system
with a small hot water heater which
supplied hot water/anti-freeze thru
a heat exchanger. A thermostat
controlled an inline pump and fan.
This was a while back, but with used
parts, the setup up cost him around
$200.00. It worked great, keeping
his shop at a constant 75 deg. He
could leave the system on during
the night unattended.

Fuel type?

 

[1STMP]

Fuel type?

Electric....

 

[mopar 3 B]

Electric....

OK! Got to ask how cold it gets in Roswell?

 

[1STMP]

When a cold front rolls thru, I've seen
winter temps as low as 0 deg. It's
typicallly highs in the mid 40's/lows
in the mid 20's.

 

[mopar 3 B]

When a cold front rolls thru, I've seen
winter temps as low as 0 deg. It's
typicallly highs in the mid 40's/lows
in the mid 20's.

That make a lot of difference on the type of heat and how long it has to run. If he is getting a special rate on that electricity, it may be feasible.

 

[1STMP]

A friend of mine built a closed system
with a small hot water heater which
supplied hot water/anti-freeze thru
a heat exchanger. A thermostat
controlled an inline pump and fan.
This was a while back, but with used
parts, the setup up cost him around
$200.00. It worked great, keeping
his shop at a constant 75 deg. He
could leave the system on during
the night unattended.

His garage is also fully insulated and
finished, with a insulated garage door.

 

[moparedtn]

A friend of mine built a closed system
with a small hot water heater which
supplied hot water/anti-freeze thru
a heat exchanger. A thermostat
controlled an inline pump and fan.
This was a while back, but with used
parts, the setup up cost him around
$200.00. It worked great, keeping
his shop at a constant 75 deg. He
could leave the system on during
the night unattended.

I'm trying to picture this critter. Is it a loop of piping around the perimeter?

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

You could buy an electric car, I’ve heard they put off heat

 

[1STMP]

I'm trying to picture this critter. Is it a loop of piping around the perimeter?

It's a closed loop with supply and
return lines pumped from the hot
water heater up to a heat exchanger
suspended from the ceiling. Both
the pump and the heat exchanger fan
are thermostatically controlled.

 

[moparedtn]

It's a closed loop with supply and
return lines pumped from the hot
water heater up to a heat exchanger
suspended from the ceiling. Both
the pump and the heat exchanger fan
are thermostatically controlled.

So it's sort of a forced-air house type, except with a hot water "coil"?
This intrigues me. I need to do some research, thanks!