Thread: Heat in garage - finally!

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Mine is very well insulated, natural gas heat, and right now warming up to a balmy 68 degrees----I don't work in a cold shop....

Heat are our friend! The older we get the more important it seems.

I've got a 55k btu gas fired unit hanging from the ceiling, about 1500 sq.ft. of space. With overnight temps in the low 20s the shop gets down near 40, takes about 1 1/2 hr to bring it up to near 60. Depending on how much I expect to exert I find 55-60 comfy. Many moons ago used to use the torpedo (salamander) type, besides the fumes the noise was pretty annoying too.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Heat are our friend! The older we get the more important it seems.

I've got a 55k btu gas fired unit hanging from the ceiling, about 1500 sq.ft. of space. With overnight temps in the low 20s the shop gets down near 40, takes about 1 1/2 hr to bring it up to near 60. Depending on how much I expect to exert I find 55-60 comfy. Many moons ago used to use the torpedo (salamander) type, besides the fumes the noise was pretty annoying too.

Mr. Bob, what brand, place to get it etc.?

I'm using a Torpedo/Salamnder kerosene heater to take the chill off and then a double reflector Mr. Heat propane heater after about 5-10 minutes of running the kero heater.
Kero here is $35. per five gallons and propane $2. per.

Works not too bad, but only makes a 'pool' of warmth in the area you're working.
The garage does come up a few degrees on the other side of where the propane heater is, but it don't help a lot.

I don't mind wearing insulated clothes, but working in a 30-40* garage ain't a whole lot of fun.


As a side note, I just replaced the electric water heater in the house and really wish I had swapped to natural gas.
Trouble is, the gas meter is on one end of the house and the water heater on the other.
Over 200' of pipe to go round the house or maybe a 100' of pipe to go the other way, but there's 30' of cement to go under.

Anyhoo, looks like a touch over 50' would get me a gas line into the garage and a small ceiling hung heater would be great.

I could probably get er all done by summer....

Originally Posted by C9x

Mr. Bob, what brand, place to get it etc.?

Brother Jay, mine is a Hot Dawg unit made (or at least marketed) by Modine. Below is a picture of it installed, if you want to see how that relates to the rest of the garage on page 6 of my gallery there's another pic. Dimensionally it's pretty friendly, nominal 27" wide, 22 deep (16 for the cabinet, another 6 for the fan), 12 high. When we did our major remodel I had the HVAC guy supply and install so that won't help you there. I took a quick look on ebay and there are a variety of outputs listed, plus one 45k unit from a guy in MA that's new and almost half price (opening bid), though shipping cost to you would need to be factored too. A databose search might reveal others. Mine vents through the side wall and works fine. If your slab home is anything like mine in Vegas you may be able to get a shorter gas run from an existing line in the rafters, though if they went minimal on pipe size that wouldn't work.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Brother Jay, mine is a Hot Dawg unit made (or at least marketed) by Modine. Below is a picture of it installed, if you want to see how that relates to the rest of the garage on page 6 of my gallery there's another pic. Dimensionally it's pretty friendly, nominal 27" wide, 22 deep (16 for the cabinet, another 6 for the fan), 12 high. When we did our major remodel I had the HVAC guy supply and install so that won't help you there. I took a quick look on ebay and there are a variety of outputs listed, plus one 45k unit from a guy in MA that's new and almost half price (opening bid), though shipping cost to you would need to be factored too. A databose search might reveal others. Mine vents through the side wall and works fine. If your slab home is anything like mine in Vegas you may be able to get a shorter gas run from an existing line in the rafters, though if they went minimal on pipe size that wouldn't work.

we had them hot dawg heaters at a dealership detail shop i worked at they work good and the maintnence is easy to just pull out the ignitor and clean it with sandpaper

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Mine is very well insulated, natural gas heat, and right now warming up to a balmy 68 degrees----I don't work in a cold shop....

same here .. but i do use the torpedo thing .. once i get my shop above 65 it pretty much stays there .. after that body heat keeps it warm .. i made sure i wouldn`t be cold when i built it ..

Originally Posted by HOSS429

same here .. but i do use the torpedo thing .. once i get my shop above 65 it pretty much stays there .. after that body heat keeps it warm .. i made sure i wouldn`t be cold when i built it ..

Pat