Question:
We recently had a new home built in central Minnesota and I am gearing up for winter by researching garage heaters. The garage is 40′x20′x12′. My intent is to use the garage for woodworking during the winter months. I have easy access to a natural gas line from the basement. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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We created a zone off our oil-fired hydronic system and used it to power a hydronic ventilator mounted to the ceiling of our three-bay garage. It is controlled by its own thermostat to keep the temperature at 40 degrees in the winter (there are plumbing pipes in the ceiling, very vulnerable). It works great. I can send details if you’re interested. –Welmoed – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > We recently had a new home built in central Minnesota and I am gearing up > for winter by researching garage heaters. The garage is 40′x20′x12′. My > intent is to use the garage for woodworking during the winter months. I > have easy access to a natural gas line from the basement. Any advice would > be much appreciated. Thanks.
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>We recently had a new home built in central Minnesota and I am gearing up >for winter by researching garage heaters. The garage is 40′x20′x12′. My >intent is to use the garage for woodworking during the winter months. I >have easy access to a natural gas line from the basement. Any advice would >be much appreciated. Thanks. How about wood? —
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Check the want ads for used furnaces. I found a used gas furnace that I put in my shop. It was from a prefab/trailer home. The owners had put the house on a basement and put in an efficient gas furnace and air conditioner. The old furnace was taking up room in a closet in the house. It is a downdraft furnace so the warm air blows out the bottom across the floor of the shop. I did not have to put any duct work in. I think I paid about $250 for it. My furnace runs on LP just because it was easier than running a NG line from the house to the garage (~60ft). You may want to talk to a local heating contractor. They may come across functional used furnaces when people upgrade to a higher efficiency furnace. Mark – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > We recently had a new home built in central Minnesota and I am gearing up > for winter by researching garage heaters. The garage is 40′x20′x12′. My > intent is to use the garage for woodworking during the winter months. I > have easy access to a natural gas line from the basement. Any advice would > be much appreciated. Thanks.
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>> We recently had a new home built in central Minnesota and I am gearing up > for winter by researching garage heaters. The garage is 40′x20′x12′. My > intent is to use the garage for woodworking during the winter months.
Just for curiosity’s sake, where are you putting your vehicles? I have a 25′x35′ garage here in Detroit, and what I did was build a 10′x15′ room in one corner with 8′ ceiling, insulated and drywalled. That is where I keep all my paint, etc. that can’t freeze, and where I do all my work unless I need a LOT of room to assemble something. I have one of those little $20 electric resistance heaters that is on a thermocube so it comes on at 35 and goes of at 45. That keeps everything above freezing. When I am working out there I have a radiant electric heater that I use to keep myself warm. Works great. My only regret is that I didn’t put in two 24" doors instead of the one 36" one. I can’t get my table saw in or out without disassembling it (not that I do that often but there have been times when I was cutting some particulary long/large pieces of wood where it would have been nice to be able to roll the saw out the door into the rest of the garage.)
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