Heat! How do you heat your hot rod shed?- if anything

How do you heat your shed? How well is it insulated? How much does it set you back?

I've been using a bullet heater but it's so noisy and comsumes a lot of kerosene. However, I could help it if I stuffed some cracks and spent a little on insulation.

Just curious of what you use.......I'm a wus...gotta have heat!

No, we don't want to hear from people that live in warm climate.....

 

I have a small 12x12 work shed for wrenching on motors and bikes, I just use a Mr. Heater propane heater and I have an electric heater, plus a lot of layers of clothing! I'm in Metro Detroit, high of 18 yesterday! I'd really like one of those slim wall mount gas/propane heaters, but I don't have a gas line to my shed and I'd need a bigger propane tank, right now I use a BBQ size. If you have a gas line to your shed then that would be the way to go, Home Depot had a sale last Feb. on them for $60.00 for a pretty good size one, I think it was rated upto 1200 sqft.

 

I've been using propane. I go thru 15 gal. or more a week.(I spend a lot of time out there!) But, this Friday I'm haveing a 200,000 BTU gas furnace installed. No more cold shop! No more filling propane bottles when it's below 0!
I don't know what it will cost to run, but It dosen't matter. Gotta have heat to do body work.

 

I have a Modine "Hot Dawg" 60,000 btu ceiling furnace that works awesome. Keep the thermostat at 40 degrees does'nt take no time to heat to 65. Lots easier than trying to bring it up from freezing temps. Also makes me feel guilty if I'm not out there using the heat.
Whole setup cost 500.00 to set up, well worth it. Oh, and insulate as good as you can.

 

Heat?
It's gonna be 80º+ again today, it only got down to the high 50ºs when it was raining....

Just another ****ty day in Paradise!

 

Thanks for the input, DrJ! LOL What does that cost ya?

 

40K BTU, twin burner clamp-on-a-BBQ tank propane burner. Nice to be able to turn off one burner & save propane when the shop gets warmed up enough. Two car garage- heater really can't keep up when it gets much below 15 F.

My old man put a used mobile home furnace in his shop- runs on kerosene, doesn't stink, no exposed burners to catch random **** on fire, and has a thermostat. Downside is that it's forced air, which might **** when you're doing body work and get **** in your primer. It couldn't heat a pole barn, but I'd put one in this garage if I wasn't just renting it.

 

I have a 35,000 BTU radiant kerosene heater and a 1500 watt quartz heater. My attached garage is 20 X 20' and half-***ed insulated. It has been around 25 degrees starting out(inside), after both heaters are on about an hour or two the temp is around 50deg. If I leave them both on, I can get it to around 65 if it is 25 outside. Usually i bring it to about 50 and shut one off to maintain temperature.(I typically kill the kerosene, it's more costly). I heat until it is comfortable for me to work in the garage weraing jeans and my hoodie...

In the summer, I have a window AC unit to kill some of the humidity and keep out some of the mosquitos.... wishful thinking right now as it is snowing.....

Andy

 

I use a propane jet heater ,but its pretty much hopeless w all the day light showing in the walls so mostly i wait til spring or at the very least warmer days

 

Well if you want to be traditional...you have to burn used oil in a dangerouse space heater...or you can use your switchblade to cut open the stomach of a rival gang member...then sleep inside...until morning...when its warmer..then head out across the harsh tundra. I think Luke Skywalker had done this long long ago...super traditional..
Tim
MBL

 

The lower level of my garage is 24x36 and insulated. I have a gas wall furnace (approx. 3x2) that works quite well when it's not way below freezing. I keep it set on low, then crank it up when I go out to work. I use an osolating fan to move the air around. It gets real cozy out there. I'm all set for the day my wife kicks my *** out of the house, I know I'll have a warm place to go.

 

I'm not there yet, but I'm planning on building a wood stove. My brother did the same and it works great. He found some old rail road ties and cut them up, heats the garage all day long.

 

Since someone mentioned waste oil....

Mother Earth News Waste oil heater
Mothers Other Heater
Babington Burner

I have a Babington that is going to heat water to heat the slab.
The Babington can heat air or water and can even be used to heat a forge.
Burns waste oil, french fry grease, ****** fluid....whatever as long as it's fluid and flammable.

 

One of these heats my two car garage just fine - even at 20 degrees outside.

http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=220629-234-HD15

JH

 

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Railroad ties are full of creosote, which is poisonous when burned. Nasty ****.

We have an oil-fired industrial heater in my father's garage, bought it used for a couple hundred bucks I believe. Keep the temp about 50°, just warm enough to keep fingers from freezing. We put dryer felt (stuff they use under printing presses) on the floor for insulation, lying on a concrete floor with frozen ground under that ****s the life outta ya.

 

check out the post by stevie G

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=710848&Forum=UBB1&Words=heat&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=1&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=710641&Search=true#Post710848

i'm gonna try it...

 

Excuse me a minute, I think I'll go for a motorcycle ride in my cabana boy suit.

 

I posted this in another thread but...

Here's my rig. It's a Taylor T-1000 outdoor wood boiler.
The stove alone would be $7000.00 (I got mine FREE and put new guts in it after it rusted out)...
It holds up to 5' logs, needs to be fed at least twice a day, and heats my house, 40x60 shop, and all my domestic hot water.




Mine is 800-900 gallons, but, anyone could make a smaller one using a 55gal drum with a 20gal drum inside, for a firebox. It would heat up faster for quick uses.
It'll require a head plate for the end, with a door and door frame... Weld in an exhaust pipe (from the firebox to the outside jacket), an overflow pipe, some threaded pipe ******s... done.
NOTE: Something not shown, is support under the back of the firebox.



A simple heat exchanger could be made from junk we all have around. A radiator, a water pump w/pulley, and an electric motor to spin it....
Make up a 1x1 angle iron frame with a 1/4" plate for the waterpump to mount. Weld some threaded pipe ******s behind the inlet and outlet... Done.



Aaaah...Heat

You'll want to insulate the lines, and the stove.
An airtight damper is needed on the door, to prevent overfiring, which will boil out the water.
Mine has a fan and a weighted trapdoor style damper. When the water temp drops, a sensor kicks the fan on. when it hits 180, it kicks it off and the damper drops. Not needed if you fire it properly.
Antifreeze is needed, too, if you don't intend to keep it fired in sub-freezing temps.

This would be perfect for any garage. Without the fire hazzard and insurance ****.


JOE

 

kerosene burning furnace........

 

a home made corn stove in one shop and a home made drip oil stove in the other shop both work very well

 

Is that electric or gas?--I been using one of them noisy kerosene bullit heaters and it does the job,but is a pain---we don't have gas--all electiic house

 

my garage(single bay + 5 feet beside car of is a little strange. It has a full ba*****t(shop) and a wooden floor you park on. in the shop I have aventless hang on the wall propane heater and a 100# tank out side. with cement walls it gets tolerable in 20 min and really warm once the heat soaks in the concrete. upstairs I have a small torpedo kerosene heater, warms up quick. walls are fully insulated and covered with pressboard and painted white. not the best setup but beats outside. i actually like the shop

 

insulation and drywalled garage...also have a Modine Hot Dawg natural gas heater. Keep it at 50 degrees through the week to stay ahead of any moisture and keep anything metal, and the concrete, from getting too cold.

 

Solar!

 

75,000 BTU overhead natural gas heats my 40X80X14 just fine. I keep it at 50-55degrees at night so all of my heavy machinery doesn't cool off and turn it up 65-70 during the dqay when I'm out there. I've got 2X8 side walls insulated with 12-14 inches of insulation in the ceiling.

Frank

 

my biggest problem is keeping the shed cool enouhg to work in. But if it does get too cold to work a long sleeve work shirt is usually all i need.

 

2-100,000 btu lp 90+ furnaces and wear a sweatshirt, I don't like giving money to oil company executives. I'll use about 125-150 gals of lp. tt

 

Add a pop off[ pressure relief] valve. Other wise one helluva explosion. Other than that this is what I have had in mind.

 

1350 sq. ft. garage with 10 and 12 ft ceilings. Walls are 6 inches with R-30 insulation and 12 inches in the attic. No windows, one insulated 36 in. entry door and a Raynor insulated 9 x 16 ft. garage door. 2 ceiling fans in the 10 ft. area to circulate the air. Heat and cooling provided by a 3-ton Westinghouse heat pump with 12 vents in the ceiling. I keep the garage 65 in the winter and 75 in the summer. My house is 2000 sq. ft. with a 2 1/2 Carrier heat pump. Both house and garage on on the same electric meter (all electric, no gas available in my subdivision) with a monthly budget of $202. That's about $6.75 / day to be comfortable in the house and garage year-round. We also have a couple of vintage soda machines and a soda fountain which have commercial cooling systems and really **** the amperes, plus all of the interior and exterior lighting that we keep turned on, so we expect the bill to not be cheap!

Jim

 

its 11 degrees out here i have a pop up tent im working out of. beers and herbs keep me warm , rosemary and dill .. lol