Shop heaters what do you have?

[wonderboy24]

i have 32x30 with 9 ft ceiling. i have 2 duraflame 220 electric hanging heaters. i keep the garage at 50 during the winter they work pretty good. i want a gas heater just havent ran gas under ground . when i do i will be putting in a renzor one in. buddy can get me 10000 btu one new for 300.00. just havent pulled the trigger and bought one yet.

 

[Uncle Dan]

Thermal underwear and a fleece hoodie. That's why I'm not getting anything done for the past 2.5 weeks.

 

[Wraith]

I'm fortunate to:
A. Live in Texas
B. PO did foam insulation, full drywall, and insulated doors
C. Use a small 110v electric heater to take the chill off, works a treat even for 1000 sq/ft

 

[Injectedcutty]

My brother n law has this beast in his 2-1/2 car garage. He also has a heat/ac window unit but it doesn't do near the job the wood stove does. He gets wood delivered for $60/rick and it's currently about 70° in the shop, and about 30° outside.

 

[fleming442]

I was never a fan of wood stoves in garage space due to the openish flame. I don't want to go BOOM.

 

[tc1959]

 

[lilbowtie]

Mr Heater - Big Max 15 years w/ no problems - my son has one too.

 

[pagrunt]

I wish I had working heat in my garage. 🙁 I have an ancient wood/coal furnace (from the '20's/'30's?) that hasn't been used since the early '70's. Been here for two years & haven't got it checked out or fixed the rusted out exhaust pipe. Be nice to cook a few squirrels that sneeks by the pipe.

 

[Doug Chahoy]

Radiant floor heat is definitely the best. I got estimates when I built my garage about 20 years ago. My garage is 24 X 32 X11 . Getting a boiler to do my garage and later room by room of the rest of the house would cost 10 grand then. And I'd only have the garage finished. So I went with the gas overhead radiant tube heater across the center of the garage. I had worked in body shops in the 70s and 80s that had them installed when I was working there. Such a huge improvement over the old forced air ceiling units and much safer for BS because there's no exposed flame. I payed $2,500 for mine, other than wishing I could have afforded the floor heat, I've never regretted what I bought. Ps. No problems at all after all these years.

 

[Local Hero]

My home shop is divided up with 450 square feet being the "dirty room." The rest is set up as the clean room and parking of the finished stuff. The dirty room is insulated for the north pole. and has an enclosed ceiling. That is the only area that I heat. I have this small 220 electric unit that does OK. But when i starts acting up, I think I'd step up to something a little bit larger.

For scale, here is the rest of the room. It's an old picture and there is a lot more stuff on the walls and there is a ton more equipment now. But I can still get one vehicle in there, open the doors and walk around it without too much drama.