Garage Heater?

[Doogie S]

volkdent,

It all depends upon how much heat (BTU's) you need. (How warm you want it in your Shop and how cold it gets outside)

And of course, how deep your pockets are...

The tube heaters (gas or electric) are the most expensive option for equipment, but have the least operating costs.

The unit heaters (the little ones hanging from the ceiling and sit in the corner) are a lot cheaper, but use more gas to heat the space.

Anything electric is the most economical for the equipment, but you pay a premium for the electricity.

I would talk it over with a furnace supplier / installer in your area. I'm sure they can provide you with a better recommendation that I can from the forums.


Doug

PS: When I re-poured my garage pad at my old house, I installed tubing in the floor to provide heat, but never got around to hooking it up... Oh well

[Scotts73SB]

Better hurry.. Wednesday night its supposed to be 45 with a low of ....26!!

p.s. this is all in farenheit which is pretty darn cold for nor cal in case you east coast or overseas folks are stuck in the single digits

[Racelook]

I have two diesel/petrolium heaters (normally used to warm barns). They gave TOOOO much heat and leave an verry smelly air (where you don't want to stand too long in).
For the next barn I will use an wood kiln, it's cheap and verry functional (an friend of my use it) or an gasheater (that;s hanging on the wall).

Wiebrand

[Steve C]

Hi

We dont get much call for heaters down here but my garage has got down to 9 deg celcius, I usually turn on a single bar heater a bit before going into the garage.

At VW shop I used to work at we used a sump oil heater, it stunk a bit on start up & shut down but just used our waste oil which was free, it was also handy for heating up the crankshaft timing gears before fitting them.

Steve