Thread: kerosene Heater in paint area?

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Originally Posted by 1gary

I am involved in heating sales.One of the cheapest heating improvements is insulation.Mr Heater sells a ceiling hung infrared that is propane or natural gas that will handle 500 to 600 square ft and is the price range of $349.00.The key to infrared is it heats objects and not spaces.So it is heating you,the car,etc.On balance if you spending less with heating you end up correcting that intermediate step and end up buying what you really need anyways.So insulate and buy a heater to do the job.Face it,what you don't spend on insulation,you spend on payments for fuel.

thanks I will look into those heaters. The thing that holds me back on insulating is that I probably won't spend much time out there once the car is done and I may even sell this place within a year so I don't know how cost effective it would be to insulate.

I use a Readdy heater propane tank top heater for just about everything.. infared open flame, so you would have to get your paint work area up to temp, and then shut down the heater and remove it during painting. after the fumes clear, you could replace it and fire it back up... 24 hours on low on a 20lb tank, so it's really quite efficent, being it's less than 1lb per hr, and that's still 10k BTU IIRC

Originally Posted by Mr Smith

I wasn't going to use it while painting but thanks for the conformation. I turned him down when he offered it but after being out there with long johns, my wood stove burning and my small electric heater running and still watching my breath turn to steam I almost reconsidered.

Build a plastic wall with some filters to allow heat in and do the same at the door with a box fan pulling the fumes out . Filter on the inside from box fan . Garage will be warm and your fumes will not reach the open flame .

This is a huge furnace fan I use to eliminate fume plus they are spark proof being around natural gas in a furnace . it will clear the air in minutes and pull heat threw filters well.

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Originally Posted by bluestang67

This is a huge furnace fan I use to eliminate fume plus they are spark proof being around natural gas in a furnace . it will clear the air in minutes and pull heat threw filters well.

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So are you telling me you use a kerosene heater in your shop? I see a heater in your pic that could be one. I have read in other post after starting this one were people seem to be okay with kerosene heaters. But I don't know if they are talking about the sealed electric kind or the kerosene burning kind.
In a shop that I built several years ago I had a fan like yours and they do work great.

I have been looking into insulation for metal buildings and these guys seem to have the best product at a reasonable price. http://www.insulation4less.com/Insul...l-48-Inch.aspx I was going to start another thread and ask if anyone has used it but I guess I will first ask here to see what kind of response I get. With the aluminum you also get the benefit of more light which I need.