How do you heat your shop?

[wes murphy]

Gotta do something this winter about heating my garage/shop. Thinking of using a kerosene type heater, but I'm a little concerned about the dust in the air. It's either heat it or take the winter off.

[Don Jarvie]

Do a search on this subject as this is a very popular topic.

I have a Dayton G73 that heats my 20x20 garage quite well.

[John Grabowski]

I use kero and have not had a problem yet...some say it produces water and that is correct...although I live in Ohio and the air is generally dry here in the winter time so I really don't worry about it much.

I use two actually b/c I have a really big shop with very little insulation. I am hoping to add insulation in the ceiling this year and that should cut down fuel consumption by 1/2. I really don't work out there enough to justify spending thousands in insulation. Maybe afterni hit the lottery.

I use a CO sensor on twomsides of my shop and the kero's have not ever set them off...even when the air exchange is minimal.

Best of luck,

JG

[John Messinger]

1.) I have a woodstove that I use to burn:
a.) Wood that I recover from my land.
b.) Wood scraps
c.) Sawdust
this provides most of the heat.

2.) A canister type 40000 BTU propane heater that I use to warm my 625 sq. ft. shop quickly as it takes a while for the woodstove to put out enough heat on a cold winter morning in New Hampshire. I have to run this about 20 before the woodstove and residual heat makes it comfortable. I use about 40 lbs during the course of an average winter.

3.) I have an electric, oil type heater of 1500 watts that will keep the temp above 35 degrees on the coldest nights. I use it on the 500 watt setting with the thermostat on low. I am seldom in my shop Mon - Thurs. and that is when I turn this one on.


5.5 inches fiberglass insulation in the walls, and 8 inches in the ceiling. I also have aCO sensor.

[Dave MacArthur]

Big thread on exactly this, been running for a week now
Hate to see topics get split, folks on that thread miss out on answers posted here, or vice versa.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=152346

[David Thompson 27577]

Gotta do something this winter about heating my garage/shop. Thinking of using a kerosene type heater, but I'm a little concerned about the dust in the air. It's either heat it or take the winter off.

Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Rapid City, SD
Posts: 32

Maybe you could consider moving south?

I just use one of those plug-in oil-filled radiators in my shop. When I built it, I thought I'd need (and I bought) two of them. The second one gets loaned out on a regular basis to neighbors and friends when their furnace dies.

[wes murphy]

Maybe you could consider moving south?

That has been considered. I'm originally from central texas, but western South Dakota has my heart now.

[Lee Schierer]

My shop is attached to he house so the house geothermal system heats the shop. I have hepa filters on the air returns to keep dust from the duct work and house.