Garage Heater....

thrashingcows

thrashingcows

Drowning deep in my sea of loathing...so I'm
Just wondering what you use to heat up your garages when storing the beasts over winter....my garage is a single car unit attatched to the house but it gets plenty chilly over the winter....it's not plumbed to the central heating system.

I've been using one of those crappy cube space heaters but it sure sucks the hydro...I've been thinking of getting one of those oil filled heating register units.??
 
If you can, go with a radiant...they kick ass! I would have my garage heated with them, but the gas is on the other side of the house, 100 feet away. :( The cost to re-plumb that would be wicked. Donations? :D
 
XL your just being lazy

cow those oil filled units only work within about 5-10feet of themselves..HOWEVER a box fan on low will do wonders in small spaces assuming you have GREAT insulation!!!!!

me i rough it..some long underware and flanel and im good to go.....but we dont really see snow any more :p
 
When our garage was built we had a pellet stove installed. On it's lowest setting it keeps the main floor at a comfy 70 degrees. Kinda like a wood stove, each day you have to dump in about 3/4 of a bag of wood pellets. Takes about 3 mins. All that insulation really helps too :)
 
Yeah Great insulation aint really the term I'd use...it's insulated but at 1978 standards....I've upgraded the 2 windows to modern units so that helps but the 6" thick concrete floor and old insulation don't hold the heat that well.

I was wondering about the oil units...Thanks 69.5! :2thumbs:

I recently bought a parabolic radiant heat unit from Costco and no were on the box did it state it's actual use and/or purpose...so after pluggin it in and following the intial use instructions I finally came to the part in the user manual that stated... "Not intended for space heating best usuage as a people heater!" :doh::(

I returned it and complained that it should have a usage statement on the box.
 
Well, our garage is 28 X 30, attached to the house, and when we built (the house) in '95, we made sure the garage was completely insulated, drywalled, painted, and had insulated garage doors installed.....priorities, ya know? Therefore, it does hold heat pretty well, unless it's really windy outside. Mike uses one of those yellow box construction heaters, and we also have a large, round kerosene heater that we've had since Christ was a cowboy, and between the two of them, the garage gets nice and toasty. Also, for when it's really, really cold and nasty, we have a kerosene salamander.........man, that takes no time at all to heat up the garage! If/when we can ever afford it, Mike does want to install one of those overhead radiant propane heaters that XL was talking about. The garage has 11' ceilings, so that would be just dandy. :giggedy:
 
im not sure how your garage is...do you have finished walls...wood or drywall??..is your door insulated?

if the walls are not finished..go get some sheets of 1 or 2 inch thick foam board this stuff is fairly cheep and does one hell of a job.....as well it can be cut and stuffed or glued into "most" un-insulated garage doors which lets face it..your garage door is your #1 heat loss item

also consider some foam board over your windows as there HUGE heatloss items no matter how good of windows they are...atleast for the winter
 
69.5CUDA said:
im not sure how your garage is...do you have finished walls...wood or drywall??..is your door insulated?

if the walls are not finished..go get some sheets of 1 or 2 inch thick foam board this stuff is fairly cheep and does one hell of a job.....as well it can be cut and stuffed or glued into "most" un-insulated garage doors which lets face it..your garage door is your #1 heat loss item

also consider some foam board over your windows as there HUGE heatloss items no matter how good of windows they are...atleast for the winter
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Be advised that the foam board, while being pretty good insulation, is VERY flammable. If your insurance agent ever walks in to see exposed foam on the walls, you'll have to catch him before he hits the floor. :) Cover it with drywall or cheap panelling and you're Golden.

If I ever get myself in the position where I'm able to build my own garage, it'll have radiant heat in the floor. That's the cat's ass. :bravo:
 
69.5CUDA said:
im not sure how your garage is...do you have finished walls...wood or drywall??..is your door insulated?

if the walls are not finished..go get some sheets of 1 or 2 inch thick foam board this stuff is fairly cheep and does one hell of a job.....as well it can be cut and stuffed or glued into "most" un-insulated garage doors which lets face it..your garage door is your #1 heat loss item

also consider some foam board over your windows as there HUGE heatloss items no matter how good of windows they are...atleast for the winter
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It's a weird set-up I have...origianly it was a 1/4 open carport and then was enclosed and the walls were boarded in drywall and the ceilling is wood paneling...the door is a solid cedar unit so it dowes have some insulation properties...but probably not much really.

I can't wait to be able to redo the garage...rip out everything and re-insulate and double board everything properly.
 
LP forced air furnace the hangs from the ceiling in my garage, get's nice and toasty in there. :) I got lucky and found a used industrial grade unit with a cast iron heat exchanger, this thing should last forever.

My boss was just talking about some new ceramic heaters that use very little electricity and can heat up to 1000 sq ft. Unfortunately I have no details on these. Perhaps a google search will turn something up?
 
restoman said:
If I ever get myself in the position where I'm able to build my own garage, it'll have radiant heat in the floor. That's the cat's ass. :bravo:
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I agree. Except for the cat's ass part. Cats have nasty asses, and they always seem to want to show them to everyone. What were we talking about again?:shifty:
 
well my dads shop ... we use the old propane tanks that sat outside for propane heating in the house. Cut the thing in half and welded a door on the front and added some legs and a hole for the chimney ...We burn wood, but in cold weather a hybrid wood :shifty:is used, so it sucks cutting the wood to stay warm. when the hybrid wood is used it melts plastic pails that are 5 feet away [smilie=2:. it gets plenty hot to heat up things in a hurry to press fit pieces together aka bearings on shafts.:giggedy: It also doubles as a garbage eater :doubt: The old propane tank has lasted 20 years without rusting out and it pretty well burns daily, and at least twice a week in the summer. When i say shop i am not sure on the size but i would guess 30 X 30 and no insulation, if there was insulation i think the walls would melt :shifty:

i know when it gets damn cold outside i tend to hide in the shop to get warm cause the natural gas heat sucks, this is why the house is in the process of corn furnace :giggedy:
 
Jester just freezes his ass off all Winter. Things get pretty steamy when the Hoff shows up, however.
 
69.5CUDA said:
cow what about a small old woodstove?
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Man I wish I could do that...but the insurance rate on my place would go through the roof....cost me more for the insurance then it would to pay for the hydro to run a small space heater.....:doh:
 
I'd be real tempted to splice into a nearby duct.
the torpedoes are nice for a quick warm up while waiting for the wood stove to heat up but when the zippo won't work any more it's time to shut her down. :eek:
 
if the garage is small enuf i too would just tap into a duct..simple enuf to do if theres any neerby

honestly once you have the slab warm, keeping it warm isnt the issue..its getting it warm when the slab is already cold
 
I bought a little 1400watt cube heater from Peavey Mart and it works great!

I only work in the shop on the weekends so the cost to run it isn't that bad.

I wouldn't want to use it all day every day.
 
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