Heater Advice

[Impact]

Hey Guys,

I'm looking at getting a portable heater for my attached garage. My garage is 22X22 and I hate using my electric heater due to the new hydro rate hour program. I was looking at getting a propane heater since there are less fumes then using kerosene or etc.

Any advice would be great!

 

[mucovich]

A friend told me about some propane heaters that he bought at princess auto for his garage and he said he is really happy with them and their not too expensive. I'll be looking into them too i think. One downside to those may be excessive fumes though but there's no doubt they pump out the BTU's.

 

[Impact]

TSC has one for $100 that's 40,000 BTU...
PA has one for $220 thats' 125,000-175,000 BTU...

 

[Impact]

I see that PA says that theirs are sold out in Ottawa. If you are going down to Ottawa can you grab me a raincheck too? If you aren't I have someone going down on the 30th that can grab us a raincheck. Let me know if you are interested!

 

[dwcjwerfner]

Watch out though, propane from one of those big puppies will suck all the oxygen out of the building very quickly. I can only run big one about 30 minutes I think and the CO detector goes off, and that is in 1800 sq ft. They are made for uninsulated quonset huts, drive sheds and construction I believe. I actually use one of those big kerosene "jet engine" heaters when it is really cold, I think it is 225000 BTU and it brings the temperature up almost 1 degree per minute, so I bring it up to 15c from the 5c I keep it at with an electric construction heater and then I have to throw the door open for 3+ minutes to get the fumes out, but I only lose a few degrees and am usually fine for 1-2 hours depending on how cold is it outside.
dj

 

[mucovich]

ya, that's what i've heard a few times too - you'll have to ventilate but with that comes heat loss :banghead:

 

[Big Mike]

The thing I found with my propane (80k-150k I think) heater is there is quite a bit of moisture in the air, and on my tools etc. I don't know if this is the propane heat, or just the moisture that is in the air.

 

[dwcjwerfner]

You are right about the moisture, I meant to post that too as propane pulls moisture from the air like crazy. The year we had a house fire and were living in a park model until Christmas left watermarks all over the ceiling.

dj