Garage Heat?

I tried this once...once.

might be cheaper to go to a facility, or just work off a tee in the basement with a $100 catch-net, but...just do a search online and you get results ranging in price.

I have used a kerosine heater with VENTILATION. Spring BB in Mich is cold anyway so just being out of the wind is a gain. Setting up a net/tarp in the basement is another good option.

Tried the basement. Ceiling is too short (< 7') and son is 6'1". It's frustrating for him to keep banging into things.

Check out www.craigslist.com

I have bought many items from that site in the last few months.

We did this 3-4 days a week through many Kansas City winters. We used a propane heater, like the kind you see at construction sites, to pre-heat the garage and then turn the heater off. We tried to get the place near 50F before we'd turn off the space heater.

When it was under 20F that was never really enough. And its hard to "embrace" the garage cage when the temp is closer to 40F than 50F. Sometimes, when HaverMom was away, we'd open the garage door to the house and certainly contributed to global warming.

Fortunately, the back side of our fireplace faced the garage and we'd get the cooking for several hours which provided great secondary heat.

You really need strong lighting to do this, so the most inefficient floodlights you can find will contribute radiant heat.

Plus, as you are in a place where its cold enough to be doing this, the best possible layered sports clothing will also be useful when he does get outside.

If you want it consistently warm and safe, electric space heaters might work, assuming your breaker panel could handle it, but I expect you'd need way too many.

The garage is also a place to shoot video. So once a week or so, we'd shoot video, go inside for a warm drink and watch the video while we re-heated the garage.

Finally, on a motivational note, while its good to have a thermometer to know when to start, its not good to have the thermometer in your face the whole time.

We have a kerosene heater we vent and use in the garage- sometimes the garage is toastier than the house.

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Thanks one more thing to worry about!

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Don't worry Lefty34...just get yourself a good reliable thermostat bearing this symbol...



...and U L be safe.


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We sure are helpful, aren't we!?!?

As soon as I saw gotwood4sale posting I knew where this thread was going.

Obviously not as cold in TX but we use a Vornado Vortex Heater Fan that has an adjustable temp control.

It pulls about 1500 watts on high so if you run it alot prepare for a spike in the electric bill.

Pot belly stove.
Burn Wood?
80degrees is about right.
EH

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Originally posted by Nitric_Acid:
As soon as I saw gotwood4sale posting I knew where this thread was going.

What? What'd I do now?





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You can re-direct the heat from the house like this guy:

Sharing the heat

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Hey! You guys up there! Could you turn the heat down a bit? I can barely hear the TV!




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