Garage Heat

[Red Rocker]

I used to have just 1 of the Chinese heaters for a few years now in my 1,000 sq ft detached uninsulated garage and it couldn't heat it up enough with out help from a bigger torpedo diesel heater but this year I added 2 more and the garage can go from 30 degrees to 55 in a couple of hours on high and then I turn them down to 50% and they can hold the temperature as long as needed.

I don't have them exhausted outside but they burn really clean and the monoxide detector has never gone off

 

[RedJeepster1]

Frank, they are basically identical. I had the covers off both. Although honestly it seems like the orange one is cranking out more heat. Today is the first day I’ve ever fired this one up. I got it for $88 just before Christmas on a sale.

On the heater in the garage, I have the intake outside as well, but I didn’t have a good way to do it here in the basement. The house was build in 1962, there’s plenty of air leaks to make up for it…

The wall pass through for the exhaust is just one of those cheap thru hull things from Amazon, welded to some exhaust tubing, with a piece of 1” tube running inside. It’s angled down but only because the exhaust tube already had a slight bend and I wanted an excuse to try out by tube bender on the 1” tube…


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[A new level]

Truckers have been using those in sleepers for a while now. Been starting to peak in the rabbit hole. People mod them. Apparently there’s ways to quiet the click clack fuel pumps.

 

[A new level]

Hmm, I’m going to need something for the barn. I’t’s 1,500sf completely open and not insulated. I’m going to give it a couple winters before I do anything…

. I would seriously look at heat pumps given your location. 

It’s like, where do you stop. I chose not to insulate due to cost. Spent money on the electrical service. Still don’t have a lift. Appears this year is unseasonably cold. Gonna give it a couple years. One thing I do have, it warms up as soon as the sun hits the roof.

Also, as I age, I simply say fawk it and sit in my warm house…

A DIY mini split would be mint. It’s definitely the coldest winter I’ve experienced in my 5 years

 

[RedJeepster1]

I can’t even hear the click on the one in the garage. The fan is much louder. Idk why people complain about the clicking.


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[JeepinMaxx]

I agree - once it's running, I don't notice the clicking.  I think some guys are running these in a bedroom or a tent and sleep with them on so the clicking interrupts their slumber...

 

[A new level]

Even the slightest ticking sends my brain into a tailspin!

 

[Red Rocker]

Webasto is the company that has been making the heaters for years for big rig's, they are well built but expensive

I think their patent expired or the Chinese just ripped them off outright and started producing them.

https://www.webasto.com/en-us/heating/air-heaters.html

 

[50willysM38]

I don’t like being cold when working. This will take my 20x30 barn from 48 to 80 in twenty minutes.

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[massxj]

and only 2 trips to the hospital

 

[50willysM38]

and only 2 trips to the hospital

Not from this and it was only one! 


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[A new level]

You better knock on some wood!

 

[Pete]

We came into the shop this morning and none of our heaters are working.  Working last night no problem, its a balmy 45 degrees in here.  We have some old kerosene heaters cranked up

 

[JohnyPro]

oof…

 

[RobTJ]

I use a Mr. Heater Big Buddy to heat my garage.  It will keep the garage at 62 degress.
That was until I tried to use it last weekend and it wouldn't light.  Took the back off and found the mice nest in it.  And that f'er decided to chew through the wires.

 

[JeepinMaxx]

I use a Mr. Heater Big Buddy to heat my garage.  It will keep the garage at 62 degress.
That was until I tried to use it last weekend and it wouldn't light.  Took the back off and found the mice nest in it.  And that f'er decided to chew through the wires.

I had that happen, but didn't figure it out until I had already turned it on by using a lighter.  The mouse nest inside caught fire and the smoke was nasty!  Luckily it happened while I was still in the shop - disconnected the propane and brought the heater out on the lawn to finish burning...