Garage Heaters- What's in your garage??

[Shawn]

I crack me up
EZ

ya,,,,,,

 

[richpblaze]

Natural gas

I'm talking about Natural Gas.

No smell there and by far cheeper then electric. However, I'm also in a position to run gas lines and some may not be.

If I were building a shop/garage I would definetly go natural gas forced air. For me it was cheaper/easier to go electric ( already had 240 to the garage ) yes 240, 120 + 120=240 not 220 Blaze

 

[Shawn]

we sell one of these made by solaronics, how many do you want?

Brent, may I ask who you work for? You can PM me.

 

[Shawn]

Sure it is! You're missing the big picture! Remember the BIG winter of '03 when everyone lost their power for 5 days in a row? You can go live in the warm garage until the power comes back on!

I crack me up
EZ

EZ,

Read a little more, you do need power to run this heater.

 

[EZRhino]

EZ,

Read a little more, you do need power to run this heater.

Yeah, I said that in my original post. THAT kind needs power to run the flue vent blower. All it is is a little blower that pushes out the burnt gasses. However, one like mine has no such blower and does run without electricity, that's what I meant.

EZ

 

[bennett]

Just curious to know what you all are doing to keep your selves toasty in the ol' garage this season. I need to get something in mine rolling....Brrrrr!

I'm in Orem/Provo... gas company wanted $2k to run a new line to 1500ft shop in the back lot.
We solved the problem for under $100
Picked up a 125,000 BTU oil fired furnace for $50 and a 55 gal drum of home heating oil. Oil is 48% cheaper to run ( for the same amount of heat)
than natural gas. Plus you don;t have all the funky taxes.
The used oil furnaces are not hard to find in utah.

here is what the units look like

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3172967241&category=41987

heats faster and cheaper than gas.. purchase heating oil during the summer at .88 cents per gal. Winter rates are higher . If you want fast/cheap/ instant heat .. this is the way to go. The furnace cycles on- off just like gas and use fuel at a rate of .89 gallons per hour, remember though they don't run for a full hour but intermittent as the thermostat requires. I'd say we use 3/4 gallon during a normal evening in the shop.