Heater for a one-car garage

mcpp66

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Hi all,

I have an unheated one-car garage that I would like to heat up. Any recommendations on a heater that's good? By good, I mean one that strikes a balance between cost and effectiveness. Thanks guys.
 
Are you looking for an electric, propane... etc?

I have a propane tank with a double burner in my basement garage. Even though it never gets close to freezing down there, its nice to take the "chill" out of the air when I am working.

I am not sure if you are wanting something that keeps it heated at all times, or just when you are working.
 
Are you looking for an electric, propane... etc?

I have a propane tank with a double burner in my basement garage. Even though it never gets close to freezing down there, its nice to take the "chill" out of the air when I am working.

I am not sure if you are wanting something that keeps it heated at all times, or just when you are working.

I think an electric one would be simpler...........plus I just want to heat the garage when I'm working.
 
Step 1: BTU Calculator provided by the heater shop .com

Step 2: Find the heater you like.
Heaters from The heater shop. Online sales of gas and electric space, convection and convection patio heaters.

I just recently bought a propane forced air heater - and it will raise the temp. in my garage very quickly. I am using a 75k-125k BTU adjustable in a 3 bay garage.

For a 1 car garage you could probably get by with a tank top unit like acc1079 said he used.

mh24t_small_200_200.jpg

These are very nice little heaters - as I have used a small one of them as well (a single burner).

DLB
 
Here's my next question.........the space in my garage is tight so unfortunately some portion of my car will be in the heater's line of site. Will this be dangerous to my paint? What I want to do is heat the room to be at least 55 degrees so I can wax it.
 
It will be fine. The heater I showed you moves up and down. You can point it at the ceiling if you wanted to.
 
It will be fine. The heater I showed you moves up and down. You can point it at the ceiling if you wanted to.

Don't know if I'm going to have to buy one yet.......I just remembered that my uncle has something but I don't know if it can be aimed in any direction like the one you showed me. I'll have to get more details about it off of him.
 
mcpp66,

I have a two car garage I do a lot of work in. 22x22 The walls are insulated but the door is not. When it's 30 to 40 outside, it's in the 50's inside. I was looking for a propane heater but took a electric heater we got at Costco. It's one of the Parabolic dish types and it will get garage up to the mid 60's to 70 degree's.

This isn't the exact one we have but something like it.

Costco - Presto HeatDish Parabolic Heater Plus Footlight

I also have 1300 watt halogen lights and if I'm polishing I have them on anyway and they put out quite a bit of heat.
 
mcpp66,

I have a two car garage I do a lot of work in. 22x22 The walls are insulated but the door is not. When it's 30 to 40 outside, it's in the 50's inside. I was looking for a propane heater but took a electric heater we got at Costco. It's one of the Parabolic dish types and it will get garage up to the mid 60's to 70 degree's.

This isn't the exact one we have but something like it.

Costco - Presto HeatDish Parabolic Heater Plus Footlight

I also have 1300 watt halogen lights and if I'm polishing I have them on anyway and they put out quite a bit of heat.

That looks pretty small, it really heats up your two-car garage? Really I don't mind working in the cold, I want to wax the car so I want to get the heat up so that's my motivation. If I can do that and spend as little money as possible that's what I'd like to do.
 
my vote would go toward a propane heater. anything that you can attatch to a 20lb propane tank. did a quick google search and you can find them for as little as 30 to 40 dollars. second choice would be a 220v heater that was previously suggested. only downside is i don't know that your 1 car garage will have a 220v plug for you. unfortunately there is no free lunch with a 110v 15-20 amp circuit. the convenience factor of plugging something in is offset by being underpowered. just my opinion.
 
That looks pretty small, it really heats up your two-car garage? Really I don't mind working in the cold, I want to wax the car so I want to get the heat up so that's my motivation. If I can do that and spend as little money as possible that's what I'd like to do.

I know it does seem small. I was contemplating on what to get and we had that we use in the bathroom some times so I tried it. What I do is turn it on about 10 to 15 minutes before I go out. If I want to start immediately, I usually put on a sweatshirt and whatever.

I then do the things where temp doesn't matter. Then keep an eye on my thermometer and when it gets to 60 degrees I start polishing.

Again, my walls are insulated. Matter of fact I'm going to work out there shortly and turned the heater on about 10 minutes ago.

When I went in the garage to turn the heater on it was 45 outside and 55 inside.

I turned the heater on about 8 minutes ago when I saw this so I ran back down to snap a pix of the thermometer. It was already up to 58 inside and had dropped to 44 outside.

Propane just seems like an expensive proposition compared to electric. I was going that route though until I tried this.

Good thing about a Costco or somewhere is you can try it and return if it doesn't do the trick.
 
Step 1: BTU Calculator provided by the heater shop .com

Step 2: Find the heater you like.
Heaters from The heater shop. Online sales of gas and electric space, convection and convection patio heaters.

I just recently bought a propane forced air heater - and it will raise the temp. in my garage very quickly. I am using a 75k-125k BTU adjustable in a 3 bay garage.

For a 1 car garage you could probably get by with a tank top unit like acc1079 said he used.

mh24t_small_200_200.jpg

These are very nice little heaters - as I have used a small one of them as well (a single burner).

DLB

Just be careful of raising the temp too fast, I once brought my Corvette in from the freezing drive home and got the garage up to around 80 in an hour, with one of the propane heaters pictured above Well the paint and fiberglass contracted at differant rates and I then had crow feet in my new 5,000.00 paint job :-(
 
My detailing garage is at my moms house, I'm at my dads right now so I cant take pics. Sorry.
But I have the circle heat dish the frosty mentioned and it works great. I also have some tall standup heater on wheels that plugs into the wall. Just close the garage door, and give them 30 minutes to heat up. Works just fine!
 
The Cadet is a nice looking unit that looks like it would do the trick in my 2 car garage. All I want is a comfortable temp to work in, 45 to 55 would be great when it's 25 to 35 outside. I think I'll check this one out.
Low is 45F and high is 90F. So if you have it just past low it will keep a constant 50-55F temp.

I have a different model Lowes had. They don't have it anymore. The temp range on mine is 35F to 90F.
 
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