How do you heat your garage?

[airhog]

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src=" /><o:p>I need a permanent heater that will maintain the temperature. This Reddy Heater is great to warm it up and keep it warm but if I shut it off then the garage will cool down quickly in cold temperatures. So I need a more consistent temperature.<o:p></o:p>

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[Krzdimond]

<o:p>I need a permanent heater that will maintain the temperature. This Reddy Heater is great to warm it up and keep it warm but if I shut it off then the garage will cool down quickly in cold temperatures. So I need a more consistent temperature.<o:p></o:p>

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You could always try this:

 

http://www.warmzone.com/otherproducts.asp

 

and this:

 

http://www.power-blanket.com/site/page

[airhog]

Thanks

[airhog]

Anymore helpful heating tips or ideas?

[Retired_CPO]

My old house in Maryland was heated with oil fired hot water heat. I just ran another zone of that boiler to the garage. The hot water fed a square radiator that looked like a typical box fan (approximately 26" x 26"). It was hung from the ceiling in one corner and was thermostatically controlled. When heat was needed hot water flowed from the boiler in the house out to the garage and through the radiator and the fan behind it blew warm air diagonally across the three garage bays. It worked great.

 

But now that I am in Florida, heating the garage is not an issue. I cool the garage with a stand alone 2 ton air conditioner and run it only when it is hot and I am going to be working in the garage for longer than 10 minutes.

 

Rich

 

Rich,

 

You wouldn't happen to have any pics of this set up would you?

 

I am very interested in doing something like this to my garage. thanks.

[Rich427]

Rich,

 

You wouldn't happen to have any pics of this set up would you?

 

I am very interested in doing something like this to my garage. thanks.

 

No I don't have any pictures, but I just did a quick search on the web and found something like what I had. I am not recommending this company, they just had some decent pictures of the radiator unit.

 

http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/products.asp?dept=1056&gclid=CLiZzYjH15cCFRJ4xgodawEdEA

 

Since my house was heated with an oil fired boiler. I just ran another zone from the boiler out to the garage. That zone also had its own thermostat in the garage. We just ran some all thread from the fan box up through the garage ceiling and through a cross member mounted to the roof joist. The hot water ran into the radiator and through the coils and the fan on the back would turn on and blow hot air across the garage. Then the water would return to the boiler. I placed the unit in the right front corner of the garage (near the house) and pointed it towards the the left most corner by the garage door.

 

It worked great! If I knew I was going out to work in the garage, about 20 minutes before I went out there I would turn the thermostat up to about 65 degrees. I could work all day out there in just shirt sleeves.

 

I hope this helps!

 

Rich

[jim293]

I just use a propane heater works really well. Do not really have to use it all that often out here in Calif.

[airhog]

It has been awhile since the weather has been cold so I decided to bring up the question again. What do you use to heat your garage in the winter? Also if you have any questions or comments please post them

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[whiterp199]

I use hopes and dreams! Hopefully I will change that soon enough.

[bigred vette]

I use hopes and dreams! Hopefully I will change that soon enough.

:lol: +1!

[Bill-V8V]

It has been awhile since the weather has been cold so I decided to bring up the question again. What do you use to heat your garage in the winter? Also if you have any questions or comments please post them

Thanks airhog.<o:p></o:p>

 

Yup, and if memory serves me it got cold around this time the year before too

[70'sChevyGirl]

As I posted in another thread...

 

 

From parka to butt naked in 5 minutes! One thing that is true, you must have good vetilation to use something like this, especially if yours uses kerosene. My uses gas or kerosene and my garage is a drafty as Aunt Jemima's bloomers.

We use a similar bullet heater. It seems to do the trick and within an hour or so the pole barn is warm enough to paint cars.

 

 

 

 

 

BTW AJ, how drafty are Aunt Jemina's bloomers??

[11chevz71]

oil

[Chris@Adams]

Real men don't need heat.

 

 

Rich are you a real man?

[Junkman2008]

... BTW AJ, how drafty are Aunt Jemina's bloomers??

 

You could use them for a Powerball drawing.

[2008fx4]

live in southern arizona.....

[Rich]

Rich are you a real man?

 

 

I've been married 36 years, so I guess my answer is "not anymore".

[Junkman2008]

I've been married 36 years, so I guess my answer is "not anymore".

 

Thirty-six years? Good grief, was Moses in your shop class?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Chris@Adams]

I've been married 36 years, so I guess my answer is "not anymore".

 

:lolsmack:

[Rich]

Thirty-six years? Good grief, was Moses in your shop class?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nah, he was in yours. ADAM was in mine.

[Junkman2008]

Nah, he was in yours. ADAM was in mine.

 

You callin' me old there geezer?

[70'sChevyGirl]

I've been married 36 years, so I guess my answer is "not anymore".

:lolsmack:

 

 

 

Your wife's job is done.

[PatsFan]

First let me apologize in advance for coming across as a hard ***. This subject is near and dear to me.

I would never detail my own car because I am clueless but, when it comes to CO poisoning and sick building syndrome I am at the top of my field so please heed my advice.

NEVER NEVER NEVER use an unvented fossil burning (Nat. gas,LP,kerosene etc.)heater in any building that is also used for human habitation.Best case scenario, you will be polluting the air and growing massive mold colonies. Worst case scenario, you or someone you love will find themselves very dead !!!

Unvented heaters should only be used for temporary heat in extremely well ventilated and UNinsulated situations.If you must use temporary heaters indoors please use electric but, be wary of the fire hazards they impose.

 

Everybody please repeat this one hundred times;

 

NEVER NEVER NEVER use an unvented fossil burning (Nat. gas,LP,kerosene etc.)heater in any building that is also used for human habitation

[rha600]

<---- south florida. If you ant to heat the garage up just open the door.

[Junkman2008]

They stress that fact on the units PatsFan. Some folks don't head it but in my case, I wasn't joking when I said my garage is drafty. Built in 1892, insulation must have been a luxury. The air completely recycles in minutes!