What do you use to heat your garage?

[LIMA BEAN]

Been heating the shop with wood for the last 5 years. Last summer friends dumped off about 8 cords worth right in the woodpile that was all blowdown from the windstorms. I just bucked it to length and split it up with my power splitter. Darn near the same deal as the past 4 years. We also have a woodlot in town that people can drop limbed trees and you just go get what you want for free, so winter heating has only cost a few gallons of saw gas and some bar oil in 5 years, and thats in Alaska.

 

[wildbill23c]

In Iowa as long as it isn't on a footing (aka a concrete/asphalt pad) it is considered mobile and doesn't effect your taxes.

My garage is the opposite of optimal, it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I have a little space heater thing to get by with, haven't used it yet.

Having something that burns solid fuel will scare your insurance people, no free ride there.

My carport is on a concrete pad, but all the outbuildings are considered taxable regardless unless they are on wheels. So my shed and other outbuilding ideas got crossed off the to-do list pretty quick after the higher tax bill arrived. They bitch whine and moan about some properties being trashed, however if those people go about cleaning up their property and making it look really nice then their taxes go through the roof. Then they wonder why places always look trashed.

 

[ridgerunner]

Wood cook stove (kitchen queen). I use one to heat my house too. The garage is 28X40. Cheap to heat but your insurance co will NOT cover your garage if U have a loss...period! Also don't try to install one and NOT tell your insurance co either!. Use a propane or other gas heater and use it only when needed. I'll be switching to one at some point.

 

[black_demon69]

live in arizona to heat my garage

 

[ZMan]

I use a small kerosene torpedo heater and a propane "mr heater" in my 24x24, no insulation and it gets over 60* in about a half hour or so. I have a 36x48 pole barn that needs concrete, I plan to do electric in-floor heating when I do the concrete in it and insulating it extremely well. If the in-floor heat isn't enough I will add something else, maybe a wood stove or something, wish I had natural gas available. What we did at my parents house was get a double barrell wood stove kit from Tractor Supply. You just get 2 55-gallon drums, the kit comes with the feet, door, and the flanges for the chimney to turn them into a wood stove, gets a nice hot fire going, but the barn wasn't insulated real well so it never got it comfortable enough to work in, would be good for a well insulated building I imagine.

 

[brokemechanic3000]

I can't even get in my garage, the snow has drifted it shut until spring.

 

[Andy D]

What's a garage?

 

[85_Ranger_danger]

The nice warm phoenix Arizona sun keeps everything nice and warm day and night!

 

[LIMA BEAN]

Wood cook stove (kitchen queen). I use one to heat my house too. The garage is 28X40. Cheap to heat but your insurance co will NOT cover your garage if U have a loss...period! Also don't try to install one and NOT tell your insurance co either!. Use a propane or other gas heater and use it only when needed. I'll be switching to one at some point.

Aww yes that stove brings back memories. Growing up on the homestead the one Mom had was huge and a work of art to boot, painted porcelin inlays, neat compartments and weighed a ton. They had to haul it in, in winter with two healthy for the time snowmachines in tandem on a sled and extra men to get it inside. The food I grew up on was cooked on that stove and let me tell ya, Mom had it dialed in. I called it the eternal flame of chow because at a moments notice it was up to speed and searing moose or caribou steaks when the old man and I would get back off the trapline or whatever chores we were out doing, on the other side Mom could make the best delicate cakes and treats that rival any on the planet. When the folks gathered us all for a family meeting and said we were moving towards town and that our homestead was to be sold I wanted to run. I wanted to stay "OUT THERE", out where I knew things. Long story short, our homestead was sold and our two most cherished things that Mom and I know all of us felt the same way about(Moms stove and our solid hand hewn gathering table) had to stay for the next family. Thanks for sharing the photo!

 

[ridgerunner]

Lima Bean, Here is the one in the kitchen of my house.

 

[gabes2.3project]

ridgerunner that's ****ing bamf

 

[LIMA BEAN]

Lima Bean, Here is the one in the kitchen of my house.

There ya go, now thats a tank. Kinda odd seeing it in a modern setting but she's a beauty.

 

[dangerranger83]

My new place doesn't allow space heaters to be used on their property so I have to freeze.

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[superds]

I use a Beacon Morris 75,000 BTU natural gas direct vent heater in my two stall garage. Totally overkill for a two stall but when I bought it the price was only about $30 more than the 40,000 BTU unit. For comparison, my dad's shop, which is large enough for six vehicles and high enough to pull a semi tractor into, uses the same size heater and has no problem keeping up unless you leave the door open.

Before I had the gas heater I used a portable kerosene heater, which is way more expensive to run if you wanted to keep your garage at a constant temperature all winter.

Before the kerosene heater was donated to my cause, I used a tiny milkhouse heater aimed at whatever I was working on and dressed warmly.

 

[96Indyram]

Well due to the national emergency of the "propane shortage "
and prices jumping up to $6.00 a gallon from $2.00 a week ago... I will not be heating my garage for awhile. Insane! Their rationing propane for big household tanks ... only get 200 gallons Max. And they wont fill your tank until your under 10%.