How do you heat your work area?

[HistoricMustang]

Yep, it even gets cold in Georgia. How do you heat the area where you work on the early model? Propane, kero, wood stove, electric, etc .

Anyone that says central heating and air conditioning will be disliked by most of us, unless you do the work in the living room! Just kidding guys and girls............................

I need to make some arrangements in the next week or so.

HistoricMustang
www.historicmustang.com

 

[Rent-A-Racer]

Unfortunatley, my heat source is flannel shirts and hot coffee.

 

[charlies]

torpedo

 

[raykrv6a]

Stay toasty with one of these. Went to the local heating and air company and found this. 480 bucks. Natural gas, close loop heating and uses a chimney so you won't be choking on fumes. Wife was skeptical with I bought it but loves it now on cold mornings.

 

[67coupe351w]

As with any survival situation, keep a buddy close and share body heat.

 

[DukeGnarley]

i use a little propane heater, it's not enough to completely heat the place, but it takes some of the cold away.

 

[charlies]

you could always just leave the car running with the heat on...



















for those who may be challenged:

the above post is a joke. you may possibly die of carbon monoxide poisoning if you attempt this heating method.

 

[reenmachine]

This bad boy keeps it downright toasty. In the morning when it's 25 degrees in there it takes just a few minutes to bring it up to comfortable.

 

[bnickel]

my garage is so small, it doesn'y take much to heat it. if it gets really cold i have a small electric space heater that i set behind my fan, the fan distributes the warm air throughout the garage pretty well. if it's not too cold i just do some laundry and warm up the garage with the heat from the dryer. like i said it's small

 

[luckyae]

The best, easy and quick fix is to use a Kerosene "torpedo" heater. Mine is about 125,000 btu and works very well for a medium space. The only draw back is the fumes but they really have never bothered me much. Incredible heat for the money, and man it heats up the joint really quickly.

 

[MustangMatt1966]

hummmm move to florida? you will be looking for cold air, not hot

 

[EL1NOR]

This bad boy keeps it downright toasty. In the morning when it's 25 degrees in there it takes just a few minutes to bring it up to comfortable.

Wow! Nice setup!

I didn't know it got that cold in AZ.... how much did that unit run you?? I bet installation was murder on your wallet.

-Tim

-ps- I'd hate to see your electric/gas bill....

 

[brianj5600]

Flagstaff has a winter. All of Az. is not arid.

 

[candy-a-Mach1]

I use two of these to heat a 1200 sq ft workshop.. I mounted the control down low on the wall for adjustment. I didn't have gas close, so it was the best route I could find. $200 each when I bought them. They work great, and are thermostatically controlled. I hope the attachment works.

Fahrenheat Ceiling-Mount Automatic 5000 Watt Electric Heater, Model# FUH5-4
Heats things up fast AND saves floor space! No blast of cold air at start-up — automatically delays fan action until the long-life heating element is warm. Fan continues until the heating element cools off. Built-in thermostat. Powerful heater delivers up to 17,065 BTU/hr. Horizontal heat flow and adjustable downflow positions allow it to distribute heat evenly throughout the room. Plated fin heating element provides uniform heated air discharge. 14in.L x 12 1/2in.W x 12 3/8in.D. 240 Volts, 5000 Watts at 17,065 BTU/hr. 21 Amps. Ceiling mount bracket included. U.S.A.

 

[GT1966]

I have an Empire propane furnace......a thru-the-wall venting with no worry of igniting fumes.....has a thermostat with an on-off so I'm only running the pilot when the garage is not in use. Works fine for every Maine winter so-far. The biggest drag is getting the mass of the cement floor to come up to temperature if it's been a long cold spell.
GT1966

 

[reenmachine]

Wow! Nice setup!

I didn't know it got that cold in AZ.... how much did that unit run you?? I bet installation was murder on your wallet.

-Tim

-ps- I'd hate to see your electric/gas bill....

The furnace was there when I bought the place. Installation looks pretty straightforward though -- hang it, elec & gas hookup, chimney. It's controlled by a thermostat as well. My garage is well insulated, has double-pane windows, etc. so the heater doesn't have to run that much. The 300 days of sun a year help a lot too.

Flagstaff is not your typical AZ town! My house is at almost 7000 feet of elevation. Here's a pic from yesterday:

The biggest drag is getting the mass of the cement floor to come up to temperature if it's been a long cold spell.

Yeah, I have a thick slab with a lot of thermal mass & notice the same thing.

 

[65fastback2+2]

hummmm move to florida? you will be looking for cold air, not hot

haha, Texas works too, especially in houston where I am at. Its "how do you cool your workspace" not heat haha

 

[65 A Code]

I re-routed the ac/heater duct that ran into the laundry room and put a vent in the garage( still have not told the wife I stole her vent . Before that I just turned on my 2 500 watt halogen spotlights, worked great.

 

[raykrv6a]

haha, Texas works too, especially in houston where I am at. Its "how do you cool your workspace" not heat haha

Even in Minnesota. Have a big azz window unit where a window was to cool off the garage when working out there. Between the furnace and A/C, I have a year round workshop. Of course, you pay for elect and natural gas.

 

[Hack]

I just wear my insulated carharts with long underwear, jeans, wool socks over my regular socks, boots, two or three tshirts, a sweater, a carhart sweatshirt, an old winter coat over that, a stocking cap that covers my face and neck and a second stocking cap over that. Then I wear cotton gloves under my insulated choppers. Seriously.

That's quite comfortable to about -10, even in the wind, laying on the ground etc. Great for working on stuff outside or trips to the junkyard. Of course, stuff will freeze to your hands even through the cotton gloves, so I try to do as much as possible with the choppers on.

The people I know locally with new construction put in radiant heating in the slab of workshops. I think Wirsbo is a company that manufactures these systems. There's a water heater, thermostat and a pump. The pump circulates water and antifreeze through tubes in the cement slab. Then you can keep the slab at 45 or 50 (you could keep it really warm if you wanted, but people around here just keep it above freezing) - I guess it's very comfortable heat.

Of course if I lived in Georgia I'd just throw a sweater on and call it good.

YOU WUSS!!

No offense, I just couldn't resist. It's all what you're used to.