How do you heat your work area?

[2nd Mustang]

Jeans, sweatshirt, sox and shoes. Of course it rarely gets under 40 degrees here!

 

[WORTH]

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

Historic, need more info, how big is the garage, and is it insulated, how high are the cielings.

I just started insulating mine a week ago, doing a redesign at the same time and will be adding heat. Mine is 26X40 with 12 foot cielings. I haven't decided what to use for heat yet, I was going to wait and see how well it holds with the insulation. I have a 120,000 btu propane heater, the type that looks like a short round chimney about 20 inches high. If the shop turns out to be tight with the insulation and sheetrock I may just add a couple of cieling fans and stay with the propane. Last winter up here in Mass, with no insulation, the propane heater would get the place toasty in about 5 minutes, the problem was 5 minutes later it was frosty again

 

[D.Hearne]

How do I HEAT my work shop ? That's easy here in south Louisiana---------- just open the damned doors. It's already November here ( tomorrow anyway ) And it's been 90 degrees outside in the middle of the day for the last three weeks straight STILL using the swimming pool

 

[MustangMatt1966]

haha i hear ya......yay for florida and the beach

 

[bswor]

Move to lousiana!

 

[Loup-garou]

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

Sounds like my rig. I have a Modine "Hot Dawg" vented gas heater slung from the ceiling. There was already a chimney in that corner (there used to be a gas-fired water heater back there, but I moved it because I didn't like a standing pilot burning in the vicinity of the parts washer).

I'd love to build a new house - or at least a new garage. I'd definitely put in a hydronic radiant heating system when pouring the slab - that's gotta be close to the perfect garage heating system.