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How to heat my garage in winter
I live in upstate NY and have an insulated 2.5 car garage. I want to
heat it with something other than electric ($$). I am turned off by Kerosene due to the stink...even with the scents added. I am considering propane...I have seen protable interior propane heatesr my mr. heat and readdy that give about 20 - 30K btu. I've heard they are a little noisy, but my big concern is I read somewhere that they cause lots of moisture...condensation, which would be bad for my tools and such. I only want to use this occasionally when it I have to fix something or work on my car. Anybody have any experiences? My other option is to get a free old wood stove from a buddy...but that takes up space due to being so far from the wall and then I have to buy the chimney ($$). Thanks in advance. |
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wrote: I live in upstate NY and have an insulated 2.5 car garage. I want to heat it with something other than electric ($$). I am turned off by Kerosene due to the stink...even with the scents added. I am considering propane...I have seen protable interior propane heatesr my mr. heat and readdy that give about 20 - 30K btu. I've heard they are a little noisy, but my big concern is I read somewhere that they cause lots of moisture...condensation, which would be bad for my tools and such. I only want to use this occasionally when it I have to fix something or work on my car. Anybody have any experiences? My other option is to get a free old wood stove from a buddy...but that takes up space due to being so far from the wall and then I have to buy the chimney ($$). Thanks in advance. For fuel, you'll probably do best using whatever heat source you use for your house. There are plenty of blower units that mount near the ceiling for just this application. Also, radiant systems would work well. |
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How to heat my garage in winter
Personally I use a kero "Reddy Heater" to occasionally heat my garage. We
have nat. gas heating in the house, but the piping is not convenient to the garage, and it would be a major install/expense to run a line. For the few times I use it, it just isn't worth it. You can get propane Reddy Heaters as well. They are a bit noisy, but it doesn't bother me in the garage. I built a little thermostat that cycles it on and off (you can also buy them, but I didn't want to spend $50). I usually keep it about 60 degrees when I'm working out there, which is fine for me. Here in MN we can see temps sub-zero and my 60,000 BTU unit can heat up the garage in about 15-20 min. -Tim |
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I live in upstate NY and have an insulated 2.5 car garage. I want to heat it with something other than electric ($$). How about solar heat? Put a layer of glazing over the door and open it when the sun shines, if it faces south, as described on Gary Reysa's web site http://BuildItSolar.com. Or add a layer of glazing over the south wall to make an air heater, if it's unshaded. What are the garage dimensions and how much insulation does it have and which way does it face? Nick |
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Tater wrote:
*IF* you have a south facing wall and only need to heat it in the afternoons, google "solar thermosiphon wall panel" With sufficient insulation and thermal mass, a thermosyphon wall panel can provide 100% solar heat in December in northern NY. Nick |
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I only want to use this occasionally when it I have to fix something or work on my car. If you're only going to use it occasionally, a construction cube heater (4800W 240V fan heater) has none of the drawbacks of wood/gas/propane (moisture, possibilities of CO, venting etc), convenient/safe (eg: leaving it running for a day or two), and its extremely low installation cost will offset operations cost. In my situation (garage in the great white north is well insulated, and probably about the same size as yours), any other form of heating would have a 20+ year payback compared to the two cube heaters I use because of the installation/equipment costs of other systems. Electric IR panels are another possibility - they're relatively small (eg: 1000-1200W), but keep _you_ warm while working on a car, and can be plugged into ordinary outlets. Lee Valley carries one of these panels. $70 I think. I've found cube heaters for about $40 new, and bought one at an auction for about $15. -- Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them. |
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Chris Lewis wrote: According to : I only want to use this occasionally when it I have to fix something or work on my car. If you're only going to use it occasionally, a construction cube heater (4800W 240V fan heater) has none of the drawbacks of wood/gas/propane (moisture, possibilities of CO, venting etc), convenient/safe (eg: leaving it running for a day or two), and its extremely low installation cost will offset operations cost. In my situation (garage in the great white north is well insulated, and probably about the same size as yours), any other form of heating would have a 20+ year payback compared to the two cube heaters I use because of the installation/equipment costs of other systems. Electric IR panels are another possibility - they're relatively small (eg: 1000-1200W), but keep _you_ warm while working on a car, and can be plugged into ordinary outlets. Lee Valley carries one of these panels. $70 I think. I've found cube heaters for about $40 new, and bought one at an auction for about $15. -- Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them. For my super-insulated, 2-car garage, I use one 240-V fan heater. For my uninsulated 14' x 22' shed, I use two 240-V heaters. Considering that I probably only use them a few times in the winter for a short period of time, electric works out great. In my situation, where I have natural gas for the house, I would use that if I wanted to do a lot of serious heating even though it would require digging a long, deep trench through my lawn for the pipe. The new, 90% efficient gas furnaces are very small and don't require a regular chimney--just a vent that can be run through a wall to the outside. |
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