Keeping Warm In The Winter

I deisgned a indoor wood stove for a friends shop . His shop was 40 X 80 with 12ft ceiling . The stove is actually a large heat exchanger and has run 22 years without problem. They painted cars in this shop so that should give you an idea how warm it was. Thereis a picture of it on my website below under the "Project 2 section.

 

wood stove, used oil, and over head propane heater. But just really like the wood stove, plus you can get rid of a lot of crap to.

 

space heater does the trick for me

 

I insulated the heck out of my new 30X80 shop. I went with a 70,000 BTU oil furnace and it heats it nicely.... 250 gallon tank outside.

 

We use this, made from a gas bottle.Never leave it unattended and make sure it,s out before we lock up.Heats my 20 x 30 up nice

 

I think so the fellas I work with say virginia is considered the south east. I just know HUMIDITY+COLD is miserable

 

My garage is only 12 x 20 so all I need to do is fart and it heats up. If it's really cold I have some chili or something before I start to work out there.

 

My wee garage is heated nicely by a small wood stove and an electric heater over the workbench, one of these



those with the ceiling fan to push the heat back down work pretty good out there, even on -30 C days (-22 F for those not on the metric system)

 

I use an old forced air oil furnace on demand, with tank outside .Lot faster heat than wood stove but what make a big difference is the dehumidifier that run all the time.

Pat

 

the best advice is long john's, keeps you warm inside and out, most shops around here have no heat, i just bought a propne trailer furnace a couple weeks back and i'm going to hang it from the ceiling for $50, it's not so much to keep warm but to keep my equipment from rusting, a week ago i opened the shop doors up while it was raining outside and by noon my milling machine,lathe,vices all had a coat of rust on them.

 

My primary heat is from radiant floor heating. It's a closed loop system running through an on demand LP heater.

My secondary heating if from a typical wood stove. I have a couple of cord dry and stacked for the shop.

I only keep the building 40-45 during the winter months up here. Overnight during January it can get below zero pretty often and not much above during the day, so 45 seems toasty if I'm working up there.

 

It was eighty-two degrees here, today. Not too difficult to keep warm...
And we haven't had any measurable rain in 162 days...

 

ventless wall mounted propane in shop, upstairs in garage, torpedo to get up to temp then a small direct screw on propane to keep it there.

 

I did an unvented LP space heater for a while. It worked well enough for general heat but it takes a long time to get the cold out of the big machine tools, plus you're dumping all that moisture into the space using the LP. Everything was flash rusting.

 

I got a little wood stove, 350 gal firepot tank and 500 gal outer jacket as big as a small car, got a furnace blower in the back ,, oil tank to drip or pour used oil in it, got a heated forced air draft[turbocharge] heats 2800 sq feet
very dangerous from flashbacks from fuel vapors, shut off the oil before going home and cool it down, takes 5 gal oil a day and a few chunks of wood to keep it going I proabbly burn about 5 cord or more a winter, mostly scrappy wood, onley need the coals to ignite the oil

I have learned not to look in the firebox when useing hoe to rake the coals, eyelashes and beard are an option after doing that!!!!

 

found a Montgomery Ward brand natural gas stove at a junk store for 17.50. Even has the bricks fir it. Mounted it up off the floor like a gas water heater.

 

"Hot Dawg" natural gas heater...keep it at 50 degrees so the cold doesn't seep into materials and drive moisture away, kick it up to 60 when working.

About time to turn it on for the first time since spring - gonna hit it hard this weekend with the kids at grandparents.

 

Wood and coal ,I go to my brothers house in Tn. to get a truck load of coal last the year.....

 

I cook alot of meth in my garage while I weld and work on my cars. Keeps the garage nice and cozy

 

I drive my Tahoe until it gets up to about 200, pull it inside and open the hood. You would be surprized how much heat a warm block gives off.
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Like I told the kid, "Your music's not too loud, its just like OKC, it sucks!"

 

Was wondering if die hard roadster guys heat their garages? I'm freezing my but off just reading this thread, where I live in central coast of California it never really gets that cold. We have some cold days nothing like you guys! I have a natural gas finance in the garage vented through the roof, a friend said to just add a louvered vent for the garage. Sounds good.........

CRUISER

 

Insulate the crap out of your garage, including your overhead door. Seal all air leaks.

I run an inexpensive wall mount natural gas radiant heater from Home Depot, with a cheap box fan hanging above (to force heat out into the space) for heat. I have a 30X30 dry-walled and insulated garage. In 20 degree temps, the garage never dips below 40 degrees, and if I go out ahead of time, fire up the heater, and kick on the fan...in 20 minutes, it's warm enough in the garage to only wear a t-shirt. I leave the heater on all winter long at it's lowest setting to keep the garage from freezing, and like I said, it never gets below 40, even on the minus temp days. The downside is that it doubles my gas cost. House + warm garage is about $250/month, depending on how often I am cranking up the heat in the garage...

Having a natural gas line already run into your garage helps.

 

I rolled over to wallmart and picked up some walls coveralls 55 bucks if that dosn't do it work harder, wou'll stay warm

 

This works...

 

word of warning to anyone heating with barrel stoves or homemade wood burners.Make sure your insurance company is aware of your heat source.They are very reluctent to pay out for a loss caused by improper heat sources.They will check on you,often without your knowlege. I found tracks in the snow going behind my garage one day,and a few days later received notice that my homeowners insurance was being cancelled,because I was using an un approved heating system in my garage.I use a Montgomery-ward pot type oil stove,with a 55 gallon drum outside for fuel oil. I photo copied the data plate off the stove and sent it to the ins.co and never heard any more complaints from them.

 

no doubt.

 

Dayton G-30 electric, forced air fan, thermostat. Mine is a 5000 watt, I have a well insulated 30X30. This thing will run you out of the garage. It's a small unit that doesn't take up much room. It runs on 220v. No wood, no propane, no gas, no smell, no mess. I like it really well. It cost me $279 plus shipping from California water and air. They also have them in 7500watt and i think 10,000 watt. My electric bill is about $35 in the cold months leaving on about 50 degrees when I'm not in the shop and bumping it up when I am, that includes everything else I'm running also.

 

I also have two cheap ceiling fans that i run on low that are a tremendous help moving the heat around and warming things up much quicker.

 

I had one of these...but it kept slinging the little black dot off the wheel on my power meter.