What do you use to heat your garage?

[96Indyram]

Just looking at the different options the members on here use to have a heated work area.

I have a 15x30 external garage that is somewhat insulated ( was a old dog kennel by previous owners years ago) and on the end wall opposite the garage door, the previous owners left hanging a old "Blue Flame" (30,000 btu ventfree) propane heater.
It was full of mud dobber nests, spider nests etc....
I cleaned it out and checked it over good and all seemed operational.
I hooked a 20# BBQ grill propane tank to it and light it off...IT WORKS GREAT!

It will hold the garage at 70 degrees easy, and can get about 4 days ( 6 hours working time each day) on a little 20# bottle. Re-fill is $10 at the local co-op.

 

[adsm08]

I have a Zippo lighter and really heavy coat.

 

[bobbywalter]

old dryers to barrels and all kinds of crazy shit in bwtween

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

My last garage was 20x24 and insulated other than the roll up door and I heated it with a 4800 watt 220v construction heater. Worked fine I kept it on low all the time and turned it up when I was out there. (I had it wired to a thermostat)

My new garage that will be going up in the spring will be 26x40 and I will be heating it with natural gas radiant tube heaters.

 

[tmcalavy]

Get a little woodstove...only costs a little time to pick up fuel once or twice a year.

 

[Chris_North]

Well technically it's my dad's garage, but it's a detached single car garage (Never really measured how big) with a room added on the side of it. The room was originally used as a man cave, then a store room, then a living space, now a store room again. It is fully insulated and heated and air conditioned with an old (1986) 8,000 BTU Goodman Amana PTAC. The garage space itself has 2 1/2 insulated walls, open ceiling, and is also heated with an old-ish (1995) GE Zoneline PTAC with 15,000 heating BTUs and 10,000 cooling BTUs.

So yeah, heated and cooled garage. Because the ceiling is open, the heat on a cold day (20F) will struggle to keep it at 55-60, but anything more than that is too warm for me to work anyhow. Typically I'll throw the heat on a few hours before I plan on working in there, or I'll park my truck in the garage after getting to my dad's and then turn the heat on and in an hour the combined heater and warm engine will make the garage comfortable. OTOH, I have to leave the truck outside a few hours in the summer otherwise it will never pull down on a hot day to a temperature that is bearable. Typically in the summer I prefer to work in the driveway anyway.

 

[country0001]

Mine is a 2 car garage, well insulated. Have a 220v ac/heater. Haven't had to turn the heater on yet.

 

[straycat]

Get a portable heater. Some have wheels to move them around. They are sold all over the places at stores (Walmart, Lowes, Sears, Home Depot...etc. etc.).

 

[gabes2.3project]

hot clam chowder and beer :}

 

[wildbill23c]

Whatever the temperature is outside that's the temperature my vehicles sit in. I don't have a garage and never have. I've thought about rebuilding the carport and enclosing it, but then it would be considered a building and the taxes on the place would go up, so I don't do any building or changes of anything, I even tore down most of my chainlink fence after they raised the taxes because of the fence. Went back to regular 2"x4" Welded wire fencing.

Most people that have garages here where I live aren't heated, most aren't even really finished, so heating one wouldn't be very economical. However if they did finish them and heat them it would most likely be either propane or electric as many locations still don't have natural gas available to connect to.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Whatever the temperature is outside that's the temperature my vehicles sit in. I don't have a garage and never have. I've thought about rebuilding the carport and enclosing it, but then it would be considered a building and the taxes on the place would go up, so I don't do any building or changes of anything, I even tore down most of my chainlink fence after they raised the taxes because of the fence. Went back to regular 2"x4" Welded wire fencing.

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.

 

[Dune Runner]

I have to open the door to let the heat out and the ocean breeze in.

 

[Mark_88]

Back when I had access to a garage, I insulated it and used a kerosene heater that kept it nice and toasty...one winter it cost me about $300 in fuel but that was running the heater about 6 or 8 hours a day.

Shortly after that it was converted to natural gas and cost about $150 for the entire winter...but that was heated 24/7...kept it around 65...very nice~!

 

[Twister]

My garage is ice cold in the winter and still chilly in the summer. Only heater I got to use I'd a forced air propane tube heater. It will heat up my garage OK but its too damn loud.

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[bobbywalter]

I have to open the door to let the heat out and the ocean breeze in.

brag it up ya rotten bastage....braaag it up.