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How do people heat there garages?

I was thinking of tubular heating or some kind of wall mounted heater.


Just to provide background heat to keep off the chill.

Hi all,

I have a 2K ceramic radiator from machine mart, can't remember what I paid for it. Does the job though....

Not much room at waist height for me, it'd be tubular heating under the kitchen unit plinth or a wall mounted heater.

I use a cheap infrared heater. The garage is big and not insulated so there is not much point trying to heat it per say. With an infrared heater you feel warm if the "light" is shining on you. Also helps illuminate the bit you are working on.

Mine is fully insulated ( walls & roof ) and I have a fan heater for direct warmth but wanted background heater for when it gets really cold. Just to take the edge off.

I dream of heat in the garage ..... In winter it's as many layers of clothing as I can muster and fingerless gloves. One day I'll have something warmer to work in ....

I was going to have a radiator fitted. Bit it'd take up valuable wall space. So need an alternative. Although I could makw room for a log burner

calor gas heater

free from freegle....

a week later some one offered a cal or gas cylinder for free (actually the offered 4 - i grabbed them all and traded 3 for other stuff...)

If you get a log burner then you could potentially get a good amount of free fuel, I'd be tempted to duct some air around the outside of any single insulated flues you had and bring that air back into the garage (to get maximum efficiency out of it).

Don't forget that inside the garage and anywhere it passes through the structure needs to be the double insulated stuff (which is about £50 a metre) to stop if burning you and anything else it's near.

No to calor gas heaters - the fuel gives off water vapour when it burns; you'll have condensation.

I've used the tubular heaters for keeping the chill off sheds & greenhouses. 2 x 60 watt heaters were enough to keep the frost off a 9' x 5' greenhouse, with minimal insulation.

I quite like the idea of those tubular heaters.

As Martdude says,portable gas heaters give off a lot of condensation, can also cause respitory problems.
TBH a no naked flame heating system makes more sense, but an excellent wood burner can be made from a Calor gas cylinder, tons of radiant heat
my main heating source

I use a super ser gas heater and the house boiler is in the garage anyway

fatboy wrote: an excellent wood burner can be made from a Calor gas cylinder, tons of radiant heat

As made by Chris Ireland of trike fame!

http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/Tech ... eater.html

Small storage heater (which I've got to wire up..lol). For the time being, I'm using an oil filled radiator on a timer. The garage is quite large and insulated and it doesn't take long to warm up. I leave it on the timer to keep condensation off over night. It's probably on for a total of 6 hours in 24. Even though it's insulated, it doesn't mean it can't get kin' cold in there without the heater. Similar to a house that's been left unoccupied over a winter. Damp.

Under no circumstances use a Calor gas heater in the garage. Not only do they produce water vapour, but also having flames in a garage is not generally a good idea. lol

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