Temp Heat in Garage

[Bob NH]

Strange that no one here has mentioned getting a heater from an old mobile home ? Does not require much room and should take the chill out of a shop. My basement is a constant 60 degrees and plenty warm for anytime I am down there.

[Krylon32]

In my old shop at the farm I had a vent less wall hanging propane heater which did a great job in my 36X30 with 8 foot ceiling room that I fabricated chassis in. I was skeptical about the vent less feature but used it 15 years with no problems. It just hung on the wall on one end of the shop. It was very economical. In my new 30X40 shop with 12 ft ceiling I have a hanging Hot Dawg vented overhead heater. I does a great job and burns very little propane.

[waterboychuck]

My 32x40 shop is heated with a Hot Dawg and works great, but if I need something in my 3 car garage I use a jet propane heater. You can turn it on and point it in the direction where you need the heat to be.

[Ron Pilger]

I have a picture of Bo Derek from the 1970's. She is running on the beach straight towards me.

[KDL]

I heat and cool my 26 x 36 garage with a mini split. I keep it at 50 during the week and bump it up to 60 or so on the weekends. Heat cost me about $3 a day.
In the summer I set it on the drying mode and it keeps it cool and dry or I can switch to full AC. Both the heat and AC are whisper quiet.
I also have a 12KW ceiling hung electric heater for back up. I'm very pleased with the whole set up.

[john in illinois]

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I have had this vented propane heater for 25 years. My shop has 2” of insulation and is caulked and sealed from our winter Illinois winds. Also have overhead fan.I keep it 45 at night and 68 for the day with an automatic thermostat.

This has worked well for me,but there are newer technologies when you get ready for for a permanent set up.

John

[1931 flamingo]

Surprised no one's mentioned a wood or coal stove.
Heated my house for years with a Warm Morning (100 lb capacity) coal stove. 110 in the cellar, 90 to 75first floor and about 60 2nd floor.
Paul in CT

[barnfind]

Ron P,

I prefer the Bo Derek from the Tarzan movie and pics - from the early 80s.

[tubman]

Guys, some of you are getting waaaay of the subject, which was "Temp Heat". He's not looking for a furnace or wood stove; as a matter of fact, he specifically mentioned propane as his desired fuel. One of the nice things about some of these propane heaters is that they are fairly easy to sell when you are done with them. I sold a propane garage heater on Craig's List. Being careful, I wanted to make the exchange in a public place. The buyer suggested the parking lot at Home Depot, which is fairly centrally located. I thought it was kind of ironic, since I had bought it there a couple of years earlier for about $20 more than he paid. He did save sales tax, and it was properly broken in.

[michael a]

For those of you guys that are getting ready to pour floor in the shop or build a shop I highly recommend hot water in the floor of the shop I have an electric boiler which takes up no room as it is hung on the wall my shop will maintain Heat with no problem my thermostat is set on 65 and it stays that way the year round no maintenance no Flame and that warm floor is a greatest thing to work on there ever was. When I built the shop I spend my whole life working in shops with either heaters in the ceiling or the turbo diesel and propane heaters and freezing my feet off at all time again I would highly recommend the N for heat

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[KDL]

Or was he looking for an alternate heat source, that would have limited use, that didn't require the high expense of the natural gas line?
Either way lots of good suggestions.

[Jeff/Illinois]

Originally Posted by richard crow

be careful with any flame heater to be safe it must be mounted high & vented.

Absolutely. If you don't do anything else be sure to follow THIS rule.

[paul2748]

I use one very similar to this. At full blast it will throw you out of the garage within a few minutes. I just used it in my 2 car very leaky garage on a 32 degree day pulling an engine out. Mine is a Coleman power mate , 80,000 to 2000,000 btu's and despite opening the doors three times in an hour it kept us warm. Bought it about ten years ago and has worked great ever since, although some years I didn't use it at all.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dyna-Glo...80DG/202895381

or this - a smaller unit

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dyna-Glo...-202223055-_-N

[fordor41]

I found a used mobile home oil furnace. pumps hot air out the bottom. takes up about 2 sq. ft of floor space. feed it off a 20 gal plastic drum filled with fuel oil.

[trahilaloid]

Used oil burner

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[tubman]

"Construction Heaters" (such as shown in Post #33 above) can be quite dangerous. I had one and I was working in my shop, about 4 feet from the heater with my back to it. I had blue jeans on and they had a small, frayed, hole in the back of my calf. All of a sudden, I felt extreme heat on the back if my leg, and found my pants were on fire. Frayed cotton is one of the most flammable materials there is (Boy Scouts use it with their "flint and steel" fire starters). The end result is that the back of my leg was badly burned and it took two months and a skin graft to recover. I never used that heater again and sold it shortly thereafter. Because of their very nature, these thing throw a tremendous amount of heat and can start anything close on fire. I wouldn't have one (obviously).

[trahilaloid]

[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] caught himself read the warning labels I guess

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[tiger.1000]

Are you looking to keep your hands warm or preserve your Ford? If it's the latter, you don't need heat, just control humidity. Dry atmosphere = dry and not rusty car. If it's the former, well the previous posts have all the information you need

[trahilaloid]

Just find a used oil burner every shop has one if you can find a broken one they are simple to fix and you'll get a hell of a deal gather all of your friends dispose of there used oil cheapest option you can find

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[RalphM]

This all Reminds me, many years ago in the Army, I was overseas and had purchased an old ex police Harley Davidson. Many foreign countries used Harley’s in the 50’s to 70’s.
It was winter and I didn’t want it in plain view in the motor pool while I worked on it. So I put it in the small boiler room behind the shop and started the restoration. It was very cramped, but nice and warm.