GTS Bruce
Enthusiast
Holy ship!Four car garage.Wife's inside.Yours outside and enough room left over to stack 6 Vipers. Bruce
Who Has A Heated Garage/How to...?
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kgrif
Viper Owner
My walls and doors are insulated as are the windows, but believe it or not the cheap builder did not insulate the ceiling. How much difference would kjust doing that make in the temp. Any ideas?
SylvanSRT
Enthusiast
easily fixed is there an access(attic area), if no you can blow in insulation into the cavity between trusses/rafters.
Andrew2KRT10
Enthusiast
Propane with a double burner. Throws plenty of heat, cheap, easy.
AC
AC
kgrif
Viper Owner
Andrew, are you talking about the kind that fits on the top of the propane tank? Do they smell? Require venting?
Roland L-Ocala FL
Enthusiast
I was having a huge moisture problem last year with a non vented gas flame heater, it was creating water vapor in the garage, as it has no flue. Changed over to a Hot Dawg heater (go to Google.com and check out the name) and you will find all sorts of information on the different size heaters they make. For about $400 it works fantastic. I had a plumber run the natural gas line from the house to the garage, and this heater will heat a 1 1/2 stall garage to 50 degrees (or much higher) in no time, and you do not need a dehumidfier. This thing dried out the garage in less than a week and kept it that way.
I think Home Depot carries this heater, only the larger economy size, way to big for my garage. Vents through the roof or the garage wall. I changed it over to the roof this fall, it looks better that way for our situation. Good luck!
I think Home Depot carries this heater, only the larger economy size, way to big for my garage. Vents through the roof or the garage wall. I changed it over to the roof this fall, it looks better that way for our situation. Good luck!
AndyR
Enthusiast
Randy, I'd either blow in loose insulation or use roll in pink insulation for the ceiling.
As I mentioned in your other post, with the electric heater there are no moisture problems with non vent gas.
As I mentioned in your other post, with the electric heater there are no moisture problems with non vent gas.
Jay Herbert
Enthusiast
Blow in cellulose.... 8"= a TRUE R38 if open rafters.... MUCH better than fiberglass as it does not allow convection heat transfer to occur. A side benefit is most cellulose include a little borax in it... bug hate it. You will never have ant or termite problems if you use borax containing cellulose.
jimandela
Enthusiast
GTS Bruce,
yes, i made sure i have plenty of room for a another snake eventually.
yes, i made sure i have plenty of room for a another snake eventually.
kgrif
Viper Owner
Had 8 inches of cellulose blown in today and the electrician is figuring what size electric heater I need. Should have everything done by 1st week in Jan!!!! Then wax, wax, wax!
kgrif
Viper Owner
Also since I will be pulling my snowy work car in the heated garage that is carpeted with indoor our door carpet I made a protective mat for it to sit on out of 6 mill plastic wood scrapes and round foam pipe insulation. Works great!!!!
Jay Herbert
Enthusiast
These have finally begun to be accepted in the U.S. They have been in use in Europe for many years. These is a REAL sweet unit now for sale in the U.S. If I ever do another shop (or a slab foundation house) this will do the heating. This thing is really neat:
Munchkin Boiler for radiant floor heat
andrew8896
Enthusiast
I have a 3 car garage with 10' ceilings... I installed a natural gas ceiling hung 75,000btu unit. The install was pretty easy. Let me know if you would like more info...
Its actually the best thing I have done for my viper in a while.. total cost to do yourself is about $1k.
http://www.dibble.net/~aromanow/images/garage_heater.JPG
Its actually the best thing I have done for my viper in a while.. total cost to do yourself is about $1k.
http://www.dibble.net/~aromanow/images/garage_heater.JPG
I would be very careful using your house heater if it is hot air. fumes could get back in house if you have a cold air return. one min. runinng a car or any other fumes could get in. i have a four car gag. with 40,000 btu. nat. gas works well. also a window uint for ac. our town will not let you use your house system.
I use a duct from the furnace (hot air). No cold air return in the garage however. I agree totally with the exhaust fumes aspect. Not having a return probaly reduces the flow through the duct a little but a garage is poorly sealed and does not pose a problem.
