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Surprise, surprise, it's cold again here in the Northeast. Cold enough to freeze your nose hairs, send your fuel oil bill skyrocketing, and make you think twice before going out to the garage for any significant amount of time. Maybe thrice with subzero temperatures headed our way this weekend. But hey, we're hardy and adaptable up here, and we've discovered many a method of fending off the frigid temperatures. Exactly which is the best, however, is what we're going to try to determine today.
Mark Axen got this topic started in the discussion on the last Open Diff regarding the status of everybody's current projects. He wanted to see what everybody uses to heat their garage while they're out wrenching on those projects, possibly to help him decide what heating system he should go with next:
I have a KING KB2410 electric heater with fan, hanging from the ceiling in my 24 x 36' insulated garage. Takes awhile to get up to a reasonable 45 degrees, but MAN, does it suck up electricity! May switch to a LP fueled HOT DAWG type heater. Thanks for your thoughts.
Keith Corby chimed in with his experiences using gas:
After messing around for years with kerosene and electric heaters, I now have natural gas furnaces in both garages. Though we are in a rural area there is a huge amount of tobacco grown here and they use natural gas heat to cure it every Fall. Though we aren't growers we do benefit from having the large gas line. This is so much nicer!
While I've tried building my own solar heaters made from soda cans in the past, they either didn't work well enough to provide any useable heat or worked too well and melted the insulation in the box. I may revisit the idea in the future, but for now I'll stick with suffering (it builds character) and bringing as many projects inside as I can. After all, if you're cold, they're cold too.
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Re: Open Diff: How Do You Heat Your Garage?
