What is a good brand of garage heater? Right now i'm using a torpedo style one, it's loud and I don't like all that carbon monxcide.
I got a propane round construction type heater for my two car garage. It will heat it in 10 minutes at full blast and you can slow it down to maintain a cetain temp. Got it at Home Depot. I use the grill size propane cylinders. I can work in the garage all day and not bother me as far as any carbon monoxide goes (I don't think this is a problem with a propane heater).
got one out of a mobile home, you can usually pick one up for under 100, made a little stand so the heat blows out of the bottom it runs on deisel, kerosene or fuel oil heats our 4 stall form 40-70 in about 15 minutes.......
Double stacked 55gal wood stove. Heats my 1200 sq ft shop with 14 ft ceilings to a comfortable 70 degrees when its -16 below and it was free! Gregg
I'm building a waste oil heater for mine, saw it mentioned in another post here. So far I have $16 in it.
coal= $60 a ton, quiet as a mouse, hotter than hates...........cost $50 +coal and 40 for pipe...... bad thing is, I don't feel comfortable just leaving it........in an emergency when it's full tilt......scary! does great though.....warms your bones.... and much less work than wood......one of the best things in my garage...
I started on one but read about the new oil not being as good.....so I quit......I really want to know how it works for ya... are you trying the mother earth one, or one of the others from the net?
it's sort of a cross between the Mother Earth and a couple of later forced air from the Journey to Forever site. I started with an air compressor tank, and misc. bits of scrap. I'm ready to build the intake tube with the oil supply line, but haven't had time to buy or scrounge a metal funnel for the hood. When I get closer to a functional heater I'll post pics.
I just got a 125,000 btu forced air lp heater. It kills a 20# tank in less than 10 hours! Kind of sucks, but it takes it less than 5 minutes to get the shop warm. Got a couple of electric heaters to help maintain the warmth when the lp heater is off. Gonna start putting in the insulation this week....
When I bought my garage (I mean house), it was already drywalled and insulated, (walls & ceiling), and had a natural gas line coming out of the floor, from the house, stubbed off. I added a $150 home depot natural gas radient heater that hangs on the wall, and eventually insulated the door, complete with foam panels & reflective tape at the joints. Also added the rubber garage door surround so that it sealed the edges. I placed a box fan above the heater to move the air out into the garage area faster, and encircled the heater area in the same reflective foil foam that I insulated the garage door with to keep the heat moving out into the garage, rather than backwards into the cold wall it was on. I think the heater was rated at about 100,000 BTU's. With this setup, it's $200 to heat the house per month, and about $100 to heat the garage. Note of caution, natural gas is DOUBLING in cost this year...between my small house (1300 sq. ft.) and the 2 1/2 car garage only being heated above 40 degrees when I'm in there- I anticipate $400-500 dollar natural gas bills this year per month (Dec-March.) Yeah...ain't life grand...I pay almost twice more per month for heat than the car note on my everyday car- which gets me to work, so I can make the money to heat the house... Otherwise: Crank it up to "5" and in about 15 minutes it's t-shirt time.
The low tonight here in Royal Oak Michigan is 16 degrees. The high tomorrow is 33 degrees. When we were working this past weekend on Stickylifter's car, it got up to above 32 degrees...shit was melting outside...but the bondo in the garage hardened SLOWLY...even with extra hardener...
I had a cheapo kerosene heater but with the cost of oil goin up I just got a propane heater..much cheaper. Lookem up in Northern tools. The kind you can attach to a propane cylinder. nice n toasty for my lil garage!!!
how much did that deal cost ya? ive got a tank of propane that will never get used, and the little electric heater i have doesnt do squat. i really like to work in a warm garage!
those kerosene torpedeos blow oils in the air, so if your doing any touch up painting or airbrushing watch out for the fisheye!
It's been hovering around 0 degrees here at night for the last week or so...about 12 to 15 degrees in the daytime...it just broke for a day though...we hit 22 degrees yesterday...woohoo... a goddamned heatwave...supposed to get about 8 inches of snow in the next day or so too, and then the subzero shit comes back... Somebody remind me again why it is I live here?
I had one of the Home Depot kind of cylinder heater and used a 20# propane tank to fuel it. Would go thru a tank a day in the winter. That's more than twice as expensive this year as it was last year. Installed a heatpump this summer, now I've AC in the summer and heat in the winter. Electric bill isn't all that bad, but I turn it down to 50 when I'm not in the shop. Life is good!
that's a good idea.. was your door already insulated and you added that extra insulation or was it a noninsulated door.... i like your insulated box too... i'm gonna eventually put a ceiling fan or two in.......10ft ceilings, much of the heat stays at the top... I have a forced air unit, a 2 ton AC condensor and an A coil for heat and air that my HVAC instructor gave me...however, i scared of the gas cost and I don't have a line run to the garage yet. I really like the coal (cheap and hot!) but I'll still hook up the forced air unit just as something that I can turn on to quickly heat the place and leave if I need to. call your local heating and cooling guys to see what they have, most get some good unit when someone upgrades......may even get some central AC stuff to go with it...
i ran a couple of ducts from our heatpump in the garage,with no return so any fumes won't get in the house.....LOTS of insulation and a ceiling fan(set to blow up to cerculate the heat down) is a huge help stays in the 60's when it's 20 outside...didn't notice that much of a difference in our bill. george
The garage door was bare steel, with no insulation or even weatherstripping on the sides. I bought 4- 4X8 sheets of 1-1/2 foamboard insulation, the kind that has the reflective foil on the one side. Then I cut the panels to fit into the back of the door, and secured them with that foil metal tape around all the seams. It works well at keeping the heat in, and in the summer, keeps the door from heating up and making the garage bake. It was actually cool in the garage this summer if I kept it closed up. I have a window air conditioner permanently mounted in the wall for AC...and my old house furnace is out there- just never got around to hooking it up.
I have a wall (unvented ) unit I bought at HD , I also bought a Carbon Monoxide detector that will tell you if there is too much C/M its about 25.00 and also I just heat when Im out there, The biggest thing up notrh is insulation or else it costs a fortune.
Thanks for the compliment, fag! .....what a moron, doesn't even know that he has some silly pacman avatar and his user name is something about a gorilla....... Why don't you go do an intro.....
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