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How do you heat your work area?

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

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HistoricMustang said:
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.

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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
 
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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
 

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haha i hear ya......yay for florida and the beach
 
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Move to lousiana!
 

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GT1966 said:
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.
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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.
 
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