Best way to heat a garage???
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Well, my heated garage project didnt get fully finished this summer so I am back to manually heating it with portable unit for this winter. Its a triple car garage that is about half insulated not including the roof. I was wondering what the best way to heat this garage to have a comfortable work environment would be without using propane. This will be temporary until we get out permanent heating element hung and hooked to the gas line from the house probably in spring. The one I was using last year was kind of old and it stunk really bad like diesel fuel, so that didn't last long as sometimes it would burn my eyes. Suggestions, opinions, and personal experience all welcome.
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If you are ruling out the propane and kerosene heaters, that pretty much leaves you with electric. I heat mine with electric, and it's nice because it's clean and doesn't smell/burn eyes. But if you don't leave the space heated all the time and just turn it on when you want to work, it takes quite a bit of time for a typical electric heater to get the space warmed up.
DaveH
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Well I have to rule out propane, due to some allergic reactions I get from the stuff. I am not going to rule out kerosene and diesel fuel as long as I can find one that doesn't stink too bad and wont burn my eyes. I thought about electric heaters, but I would only need it when I want to work. Are there any that dont take too long to heat up, and how long is "long"? How much higher will the electric bill be if I go with an electric heater?
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green6767 wrote:
Well I have to rule out propane, due to some allergic reactions I get from the stuff. I am not going to rule out kerosene and diesel fuel as long as I can find one that doesn't stink too bad and wont burn my eyes. I thought about electric heaters, but I would only need it when I want to work. Are there any that dont take too long to heat up, and how long is "long"? How much higher will the electric bill be if I go with an electric heater?Kerosene will always stink. The more you use it the more you get used to it. Like eating anchovies. You understand that you have too vent it. Having a triple garage means you better go big.
Kerosene is the same price as diesel fuel. I remember bitching at $1.70 a gallon. Hell its $2.80 now? unless someone knows where I can get it cheaper.
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berg sells a blower that u can get a heatig element for which would heat the room quickly and there wont be any smells, i have their catalog at work ill look at it tommorow aqain to see what its cost, ive been thinking about buying it for a few years now but im kind of a cheap ass
fuel heaters suck my ass and im pretty sure its not good for u
if i knew a farmer or something i would go with the new corn heaters, suppose to be very cheap to run but i dont know where u can by feed corn
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Are there any small scale oil heaters?
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integra_gsr98 wrote:
Are there any small scale oil heaters?not that ive came across but it would be awsome if u could find a small used oil furnace, im pretty sure it would be pretty easy to find large quanities of free used oil
but heres the link to the blower heater ive been thinking about
its blows 300 cfm and u can get a 1500 watt heater attachment so i think it would do pretty goodhttp://www.atdtools.com/Tools.html
then the part numbers are (blower) atd-30001 (heater) atd-30002
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I've decided that this year I'm just going to move my grill into my garage, that way any time I want to work on my car I'll just grill some burgers up first.
Other than that, I have a little stanley electric heater that keeps the (1 stall) garage right around 50. -
Bookem wrote:
How about a wood stove, they have some with fan attachments to move the hot airwood stove and wood heaters are awsome but collecting enough wood to get u through the winter is a pain in the ass, and nearly impossible for some people
and the fact if ur insurance company finds out u have one ur premium will prolly double
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I agree, get a corn stove, they put out tons of heat for little money. Too bad they're kind of expensive for temporary use.
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http://www.cleanburn.com/cb1400.cfm
I want that.
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I've got a real small ceiling mounted electric that'll warm the 28x40 shop up to 50-55, maybe 60 depending how cold it is outside and how long I let it run. Cost something like $100 on sale at FreakFarm. However - the garage is insulated like a motherfucker so it hardly ever gets below freezing to begin with.
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