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Royal-T-Ltd

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okay - I NEED TO WORK ON MY CAR!!!! ...but its been too freakin' cold... whats everybody around here doin for heat....


....oh and i'm kinda on a budget.... i really want a H&R Sway bar - so please no real expensive 1000 dollar heaters... for that amount id buy some heads and just triple up on the longjohns:eek: and coffee. Thanx
 
garage heat?

how big is your garage and what do you have for fuel in your house?
do you know anyone in the heating/ac business?
sometimes they take out old oil fired forced air furnaces that are still good
and all you need is a 5 gal fuel jug with the copper line running from the oil pump into the jug and then a 120 volt electric line to power the furnace. so basically you can get the furnace for free and with alittle bit of work you will have a nice heat source.
other options:
wood stove, gas fired unit heater propane or natural gas, could also use an old gas fired forced air furnace, kerosene torpedo heater.
but of course the best heat is radiant heat: radiant floor heat, cast iron radiators.
I hope some of this information helps.
 
i have a two car extended garage... for heat my house uses natural gas. I'm kinda shying away from open flames in my garage [wood burning stove] - also i dont want to have to run an exhaust stack.... so what are my options? do these natural gas or kerosene heaters need to have an exhaust vent or am i just limited to electric. i would assume that anything thats burning a fuel would produce some type of exhaust, right?:confused:
 
garage heat

yes anything that burners fuel does need to be vented except a kerosene torpedo heater or a propane radiant panel heater. also a natural gas fired 90+
efficent furnace can be vented out a side wall with 2" sch 40 pvc pipe.
 
Back when I lived in Virginia and needed to work on my car in the winter I always used a kerosene torpedo stye heater or "salamander" as we called it.. 70,000 BTU I believe for my 2 car garage. Heated things up FAST, and could actually make ya sweat. I can't imagine anything heating up your garage faster.
 
I have a trailer furnace that works well in my 40'x30' garage.I bought it from my cousin for $200. :biggrin: You can hardly see it but there is a blue 50 gallon plastic drum beside it I keep my kerosene in.
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We have Torpedo heaters at work for the really cold days. They do a good job in our shop so I'd imagine they'd be great in a small garage. Just gotta keep fuel on hand.
 
dumb question but is kerosene readily available? do you buy it from the hardware store or do gas stations carry it?:redface:
 
most gas stations carry it......I can't stand the smell of one tho, stinks up everything it's around.......tuff it out till spring and put you in an updraft furnace for less than 800$........I hear that peach brandy and coke will keep you warm too ;)
 
We use a kerosene torpedo heater for the work shop here at work. It is loud but almost odor less. It heats up real fast. In my small town there is only one station that sells kerosene and it costs like 3.99 a gallon. It works great here. The thing can also burn diesel, we tried it once and then had to close up early and go home cuz it smelled so bad.
 
I have a hanging unit that is 100,000 btu. I used kerosene heaters but fumes got me sick. My friend does heating and air and i just bought a used 95% rheem furnace for a 100.00. I was going to use it in the house but we found a crack in the heat exchanger on the garage unit. so the rheem will be in the garage. I mentioned this in another post. If you use alot of brake clean or other chemicals keep an eye on your chimney stack going through roof . This happened to a good friend of mine. He kept getting tired while working in the garage. He pulled furnace apart and looked up chimney and it was blocked up. the pipe rotted and collapsed. I looked at mine and it is rotted a little. no need for it anymore
 
Before I put my Hanging 70,000 BTU Modine Hotdog propane heater in I used a propane fired salamander 30,000 BTU Home Depot around a $100.00
The Modine Hotdog was $350.00 from a Greenhouse supplier in the south
Normally they are $650.00 did all the piping myself and let the gas company test it and fire it off. Gararge is 24' x 32' 9 foot ceiling heats up in no time.
 
My cousin has a ventless heater. Its a radiant heater and is very nice. No fan just runs off of natural gas. Just light the pilot and turn the thermostat on and it lights off. Radiant heaters heat the objects in the garage not the air so the floor car walls all get heated. It takes longer to get the garage up to temp but once it there it great. I think it was around 400 bucks . I have a dayton heater for my garage i got off of ebay for 300 buck (750 in the grainger book) new. But i had to run a vent out my roof . You can find alot of heaters on ebay or the one i have is sold at menards but its a differant brand but looks the same. Good luck
 
I try not to work on anything out in the garage when its below 40, but when I have to, I just bought this little 220v heater
Ouellet Portable Heater — 240 Volts, 4000 Watts. Model# OCH4000 | Heaters | Northern Tool + Equipment
My garage is 1500sq/ft and is metal with no insulation, and this little thing will at least make it where I can work on the car with just a sweatshirt on no jacket if the heater is within 10 ft of me or so.
If your gargae is sealed up and connected to the house, I'd think this would work ok...won't make you hot like a torpedo would, but does the trick...but it never gets below 30 degrees outside here for too long either.
 
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