Thread: Heat in garage - finally!

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I have some fiberglass supplies and acetone for cleanup along with other flammables in my 24'x12' frame garage and having been a chemist I have seen a fair number of lab fires over the years so I avoid any open-flame heaters. I tried using two of the enclosed oil electric heaters on wheels moving them close to the place where I was working. Last year I got a very nasty head cold working down low under the car on a cold dusty floor but so far this year I am doing pretty good working inside my heated attic (computer project). Even with two of these small standup units it takes at least two hours for them to warm up and then it is not much help. The first hint to hang up the wrenches is when my favorite trick of touch up with black rattle can paint fails and produces a wrinkled mess. Rattle can paint just makes a mess below about 55 degrees F so I just gave up for a few months and moved one of the heaters to my attic electronics lab for my computer project. With insulation one of these small heaters is fine and can go up to 80 degrees easily in a 9'x12' room so I guess this means that if I put some R19 in the walls of the garage two of those small heaters might work for next winter but the hard part would be to insulate the interior of the peaked roof. Thanks for the suggestion of running the engine for heat! If I can just get the roadster running by next Fall I will use that for heat next Winter rather than mess around with insulating the garage. Bob, you seem to do everything well, thanks for the pictures!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder