Garage Heaters...
 

Anyone have suggestions or stories about current heaters you use to heat your garage or shop? Kicking around idea of heating my 2 car garage that I sometimes work on my Cub in the winter. No cars are ever stored in here, just tractors & atv's. Was thinking something portable? Anyone ever use those salimanders? They ok to use for things like this, how much venting needs to be done to run these to avoid Carbon Monoxide etc? :bigthink:

I have a blue flame natural gas wall-mounted heater for my two car garage. It's ventless, 30,000 BTUs and works well, even in the coldest of temps. I have a large commercial fan in the garage also to help circulate the heat. My first choice would be a Reznor or Modine, but those require vents, and I don't want to go to all that bother when my current set-up works fine.

MH:

It all depends what you are going to do in the garage or shop. IF you are going to have or use Flammable Liquids, then you certainly don't want anything with an open flame.

If your area is not that tight, vent-less gas heaters are OK, in that "oxygen depletion" in not a major factor for "non living" use.

Carbon Monoxide is something to consider. Things like construction tightness, and length of stay (or work) in that heating environment are some things to consider. If you go vent-less, please do yourself a favor and get a CO detector.

Carhartt and Duofold and a pair of mickey mouse boots heat my garage. hehe No heat in my garage. :biggrin2.gif::biggrin2.gif:

I used to use a salimander heater in my 900 square foot shop. The fumes from the salimander aren't good for you. My carbon monoxide detector would go off 20 to 30 minutes after the salimander was turned on. My shop is insulated tight enough so the temp seldom goes below 40 degrees...only heat is from my Suburban. Last week I did purchase this heater for my shop:
http://www.mrheater.com/product.aspx?catid=50&id=180
They do have a smaller one:
http://www.mrheater.com/product.aspx?catid=50&id=180
I hope to have it installed in the next week or two depending on when my future Son-In-Law has time (He is a HVAC guy) and how soon I can get a propane tank installed. I have 2 Cubs, 3 moldboard plows of my own to restore and possible few Cubs and motor(s) to restore/rebuild.

Do yourself a favor-
get a well vented heating system installed in your garage or shop. Your life may depend on it.

:HeadScratch: Tough decisions to make! One thing is for sure, I won't be working in there when there is the slightest possibility that CO2 or anything of that sort is present. Wouldnt' look too good having my fellow firefighters respond to my place for such a stupid thing! I was just wondering if anyone had a safe, cheap source of heating a shop that has some cracks around the doors that makes it easier to work on small things. Its not like I would be painting or doing a motor job on things (at least that wasn't the plan as of now). I have a propane furnace in my shop that I build furniture in and it is great! Mounted on the wall and vents to the outside and uses like 4 feet of wall space with its own built in blower. Just wasn't up for spending $2,000.00 to buy another one plus having to look at a big propane tank outside my garage all the time? They certainly are great for warming an area up quick and makes it easy to work in just shirt sleeves.

I too would love to put a wood stove in, but Mr. Insurance Man frowns on that so much so that they supposedly would cancel my insurance if that was a choice I made? I am not sure if they think I would be using gas to start the stove or what....but anyway - wood heat isn't a way to go for heating the garage that's for sure.

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My buddy has two of these http://www.northerntool.com/shop/too...2121_200362121 in his two stall garage. They do a good job at making it comfortable to work in but defiantly wont roast you out.

Electric? YIKES!

YIKES? You must have steep rates up there. I don't think it costs him anymore then using gas. But are rates a pretty low in our part of Pennsylvania.

Lets just say all we have seen with Hydro in the last 3 or 4 years is INCREASES! I am so cheap when it comes to lights and power use and I still fight to keep hydro bill under $175.00 each month. And that is with me pumping the wood to the wood stove to heat the house and darn near making the kids walk around with candles at night! :biggrin2.gif: The cost of electricity up here in Ontario SUCKS! The sad part is...I think we sell it to the Northern USA!!! Needless to say Hydro can stand to have a few people running the show change the way things are currently. I think they are living the high life :bash2: