Perminent Garage heaters. What do u have?

[Kane]

So as some of you know I am insulating and sheetrocking my garage for winter wrench time fun. What kind of heaters do you northern blokes have and how well does it work for you? I am most likely going with propane and venting it directly to my chimney flume. I have a propane set up for my basement so there is a 100 pount cylinder on the side of my house right now. All I need is to route the line to my garage.

So what do you have?

 

[BrockGrimes]

Electric for now, but will probably go with a propane setup.
Thinking of retro fitting an old wood stove with a burner from
a BBQ grill. So it'll work double duty, keep me coffee hot, and
keep me arse from feezing.

Had a friend who took an old engine block, and installed small
round burners in each cylinder, then covered them with screen,
to keep stuff from getting into the flames. Ran it off propane.
It worked great and looked cool, but didn't provide much protection
as far as touching the block itself.

Been considering something similar but keep the engine intact and
just close off the intake valves and remove the exhaust valves.
Run headers right out the side of the garage for the exhaust fumes from
the propane buring inside the cylinders. It would look like it belonged in the shop
and would provide heat, LOL.
You could even light the propane via the spark plugs. Haven't put alot of consideration
in it as I don't have a motor lying about but you get the general idea.

 

[xj287]

I have a Modine propane furnice in 1 shop, and a 250K BTU salimander in the other. The Modine works great, and keeps the shop a very comforatable 65 degs even on -50 deg days.

The salimander works ok, but is expensive to run and stinks up the shop.

I'm most likely going to install a pellet stove in shop #2 before next winter, scince I cant get fuel oil or propane delivered that far out in the sticks.

 

[Kane]

The Modine looks like a nice unit is mounted out of the way up by the ceiling. From what I gather a 45K BTU unit will be good for my 24x24x9 set up.

 

[BrockGrimes]

Been researching solar options also, but it's something for down the road.

 

[IOPort51]

I don't have heat in the shop, the week or two I wish I did has never been worth the effort. lately I have been thinking about converting an old Deer born gas space heater but it will warm up before I do anything about it this year.
If I could have any system there was I would be looking at gas infrared. It just heats you and surfaces and not the room, seems a lot more comfortable than radiant heat. but it is, or at least was expensive and required some maintenance.
It is efficient enough that wally world uses them in the store entrance.

 

[elwood blues]

I don't have heat in my garage. But, my dad has a rather large garage for his 18 wheeler. It's one of the airplane hanger looking things. Anyway, he picked up a used natural gas Reznor heater on craigslist. It was a good deal for a used model that keeps that big garage fairly warm. The garage that I worked at when I was a kid had a big electric Reznor unit that hung from the ceiling. Made a lot of heat, but the boss said it was tough on the electric bill :dunno:

I checked out the Reznor site, the gas models can run on either LP or natural gas.

 

[elwood blues]

Found a couple on craigslist;

http://providence.craigslist.org/for/1540221719.html

http://providence.craigslist.org/bfs/1538622500.html

http://hartford.craigslist.org/for/1544439814.html

http://worcester.craigslist.org/for/1537016348.html (this one is still in the box)

http://hartford.craigslist.org/app/1511724678.html

 

[Kane]

Those look like some good deals.

 

[elwood blues]

The one still in the box looks like a heck of a good deal.

 

[jswatson0917]

Us "Real" men of the North do all of our work outside no matter what the temperature is.

 

[Kane]

In the winter of 1991 I rebuilt my AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l on a set of wooden platforms outside in the back yard. I pulled the motor out with a come along hanging from a tree and then shoveled out the snow for the wooden platform and did the whole rebuild and reinstall in the snow.

 

[CoreyYoungCj577]

In the winter of 1991 I rebuilt my AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l on a set of wooden platforms outside in the back yard. I pulled the motor out with a come along hanging from a tree and then shoveled out the snow for the wooden platform and did the whole rebuild and reinstall in the snow.

Well damn thats dedication right there! i like the come along set up haha! we use those to hang elk. I'm trying to find a heater for my dads garage right now hes just gonna tie into the natural gas line.

 

[IOPort51]

a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.