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11-17-2009, 05:19 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Kingston,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Sold Backdraft #488 Roush 427R
Posts: 158
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I already have 220 wired to my garage so my electrician is looking into an electric ceiling mounted heater. Did a search on garage heaters and found many people happy with this set up.
Peter
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11-17-2009, 05:43 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Cobra Make, Engine: BDR
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I first heated with the same style electric heater in the above post and still have for a backup. It is however extremely expensive to operate here in New England.
My pellet stove goes thru roughly 2 1/2 tons per year and my Garage is 24X26 and two stories. So it costs roughly $800 for the year to heat.
My monthly Electric bill in the winter when using the electric heater in Garage was anywhere from $350 to $400.  The heater depending on temps would easily add $150 to $200 per month to the bill.
Electric is not the way to go in New England in my opinion.
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11-17-2009, 09:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: caledonia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: #1459 w/460(sold)New(used),spf w/427s.o.(sold)
Posts: 578
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A 75k btu gas heater would work best for you. They heat the space up very fast. Electric heaters dont have nearly as good a recovery rate. Radiant heat is the best but it doesnt have as good recovery rate as the forced air. So a hanging 75,000btu(minimum)gas heater is probably your best choice.
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11-17-2009, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nampa,
ID
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA EXP002, 1968 PI 428 FE
Posts: 691
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mln385
I first heated with the same style electric heater in the above post and still have for a backup. It is however extremely expensive to operate here in New England.
My pellet stove goes thru roughly 2 1/2 tons per year and my Garage is 24X26 and two stories. So it costs roughly $800 for the year to heat.
My monthly Electric bill in the winter when using the electric heater in Garage was anywhere from $350 to $400. The heater depending on temps would easily add $150 to $200 per month to the bill.
Electric is not the way to go in New England in my opinion.
Marc |
Were lucky in the Pacific Northwest as our hydo-electricity is cheap. My 2008 Oct- May average cost for all electricty to the garage was $32.61 with high of $84.08 in Feb. Natural gas would be more efficient but I would need to run a 200' line to the garage. So until the cost of electricity goes up I'll stick with electric heat.
Dick
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11-17-2009, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Cobra Make, Engine: BDR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lamaluv
Were lucky in the Pacific Northwest as our hydo-electricity is cheap. My 2008 Oct- May average cost for all electricty to the garage was $32.61 with high of $84.08 in Feb. Natural gas would be more efficient but I would need to run a 200' line to the garage. So until the cost of electricity goes up I'll stick with electric heat.
Dick
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11-17-2009, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Woodstock,,
Ill
Cobra Make, Engine: Factory Five with EFI 5.0 w/ other stuff bolted on
Posts: 296
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I went with a counter-flow house furnace. it blows heated air across the floor first and then recirculates very easily. unless you can move volumes of air easily, alot of the heated air hugs the ceiling. I'm usually pretty close to the floor. once the floor gets warm, it stays that way for a pretty good while. Takes care of the snow that drops off the cars!
Sten
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11-24-2009, 10:02 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: New Hampton,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Both ponies have left the barn ...for now
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At 24x40x12', my insulated barn is just a bit larger than what you have and open to the rafters. I heated it all last winter with a combo of a propane jet blower and a large Fisher woodstove. The stove is the primary heat, the blower is just for the initial quick heat up. I usually angle the blower slightly down to heat up the concrete directly where I'll be working.
There are two unseen advantages to the woodstove; 1. You can get rid of all your woodworking scraps and cardboard, and 2. It is great to weld near, if I leave the door open most of the fumes are drawn up the flue. In midwinter I really can't get the temp much above 55 or so with just the woodstove, but that is enough for me to work comfortably.
I plan to build a new home on this same large NH lot next summer with a drive under garage and unfinished basement. The floor will have radiant heat in both sections fed from the house superstore boiler in the basement. I plan to have a woodstove as well there, with a convection loop feeding from it into the superstore.
Peter
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11-24-2009, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Cobra Make, Engine: A Cobra
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I think this is a matter of what is allowed.
Around us, wood stoves are used a lot to get a barn warm.
I have a 80k BTU propane system in my 52 foot barn, not insulated, and it heats it up to 65 in about 30 minutes if it is like 35 outside.
I use it mostly for fixing things in the winter.
You can either get a 500 pound ( note I used pounds ) bottle or use 100 pound bottles and swap one out while the other is filled. Larger units work just as well, but the tank price get nasty.
If you get a used Natural gas unit and you want to convert it, you will need a regulator swap kit and a new set of nozzles. Propane doesn't burn the same as Natural gas, so the jets are smaller.
Units are very easy to install if you are mechanically inclined. Make sure to soap the fittings before you ignite anything.
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11-24-2009, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Algonquin,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CRII 351W/408 Stroker
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I just ordered one of these from Northern Tool. I have a standard 2 car garage that is insulated, so I'm thinking I should be able to keep it nice and toasty. If I need to 
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...ssearch=177202
Having a gas line run to the garage next week, so I'll chime in on how well it works out.
Cheers!
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