Anyone have an infrared heater in their garage?

[Silverback]

My kerosun heater is just about toast. It's 23 years old, so I guess I have gotten my monies worth out of it.

Been thinking about a infrared natural gas heater for the garage. Anyone have any input?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SilvrSRT10]

I take a three burner propane heater out to jobs on cool days to take the chill off the garage. On colder days I take a 170btu duel fuel (Kero/Diesel) torpedo heater. The infrared does a pretty good job. Specially once we get the doors stacked in. In a closed garage it should be all you need. Being infrared, it's suppose to heat the items in the garage. Not the entire garage. But being the engineer you are, you already knew that. Don't use anything flammable while the heater is running. Kaboom could be the last thing you hear.

 

[Alberta-SRT]

Don't do it

Silver, When I built my house I was warned not to use infrared anywhere that a car might be parked under it. It is possible to damage the paint unless you have a very high ceiling. I went with a Direct Vent overhead Gas Furnace that mounts tight against the ceiling when we built. It has a chimney out the wall and works great. My garage is a little over 1800 sq.ft with a 10-11ft ceiling, I have a 75,000 BTU and it is plenty of heat even for Canadian winters. I keep the temp just above freezing when I am away and it only takes 10-15 minutes to warm up the whole garage when I want heat.

Very easy to install as well.

Ken

 

[includemeout]

My kerosun heater is just about toast. It's 23 years old, so I guess I have gotten my monies worth out of it.

Been thinking about a infrared natural gas heater for the garage. Anyone have any input?

Thanks in advance.

John, Don't cheap out, get a ac/ heater system installed, Twin pack, split system,heat pump, window mount, whatever, then a dehumidifier. Keeps it dry , hot, or cold :rock: :rock: :rock:

If you like the kerosuns,(or have a lot of kerosene) I happen to have 2 kerosuns laying around, just need wicks

 

[Silverback]

Well I went out today and bought a gas infrared heater with blower. 30,000 BTU's, so it's more than enough to heat the garage, even here in the festering shit hole. Called a plumbing place to run the gas line to it.

I had already mounted it on the wall and it was within 2 feet of the gas line for the furnace. They said the line was to small and that they needed to go outside to the meter, branch off there and run a new line. Okay, I figured worse case it might be a $1000.00 for 30 feet of pipe. He came back with an estimate of close to $2600.00. What a god damn rip off that was. And that was for flex hose, not even steel pipe. So he had 30 feet of hose, a 1 inch T, a 1/2 inch 90, and a shutoff valve. Can't see them getting much business at those prices.

Guess I will do all the line work and have someone come out and hook into the main line out of the meter.

 

[trubuilt]

I had a gas fireplace installed after the fact on a house that I built approx 25ft.I think it was in the range of $500 and I thought that was allot. I know you could go to any furnace wholesaler and they should have the flex pipe cheap. Just my .02 hope it helps