Space Heater for Garage?

[Motorcycle Dave]

Heater for Garage?

You will be much better off with a 220V hearer rather than 110V
the other responder is correct 1500W is not much to work with.
if you are in a car garage hooked to your house you may have a cloths dryer
in there (we do in California) you could use that 220 outlet for it if needed
but you will be happier if you go to natural gas... it is much less expensive
Dave

 

[Bob S]

I would suggest a focused heater. They have them at COSTCO if they are nearby. It would be expensive and time consuming to heat the whole garage but the dish will focus the heat on you and that's what you want.

 

[Tor]

Perhaps consider a kerosene heater, at 23,000 BTU it'll heat up a garage in no time. It's portable and fairly inexpensive to run. Just be sure to crack the bottom of the garage door an inch or so. A well maintained kerosene heater will have little or no odor while operating (with the exception of shutting down).

+1...eyeing one of the torpedo kero heaters at Lowes for the workshop..

 

[RCS]

With any fuel burning heater....a Carbon Monoxide detector is a good idea...

I purchased both the heater and the detector at the same time. Still, I would never use Kerosene indoors. The garage I use that heater in is two stories high and has no insulation in the ceiling and rather large ceiling vents. It's more like a barn and an electric heater would never work in there unless I insulated the structure.

 

[schlep1967]

The best way I have found to use a small electric heater (1500 watts) in a large area is to create a smaller area. Use a tarp or something to create a roof just above your head and walls on the sides. Keeps the heat in the area you are working. I've tacked a blue tarp to one wall, set some heavy objects on the tarp on the shelves along the other wall and closed it in the door of the car behind me. Turn on the heater and come back in 15 minutes. Everything is warm.

Another larger option I've heard of is to find someone destroying an old trailer and get the furnace out of it. Most of those discharge the heat from the bottom. Set it in the corner of the garage up on some blocks, vent it out through the wall, run your fuel line in from outside and you have a heated garage for very little money.

 

[FOG]

Best bang for the $$$ is the propane infrared units, if you are in a fixed place while working, like on the bike. http://www.heatershop.com/propane_infrared_heaters.html

They warm objects (you) and what you are working on, and if you can safely mount them overhead, will warm the floor. Not near as much CO risk,but still some, and they will run several hours with little fuel use. If the entire space needs heating, then they are not as effective, unless you use multiple units.