Another possibility would be one of those old gravity-fed oil space
heaters. You can get tanks practically anyplace as people were
switching off oil so much a while back, and the space heaters even
have an old-fashioned carburettor!
That sounds like more fun than some modern, odor-free, high-tech
solution, don't you think?
Jim
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Subject: Re: garage heat (no mog content0
Author: Non-HP-zehrinwa (zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU) at HP-USA,mimegw5
Date: 07/11/97 3:04 PM
At 10:43 AM 11/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>My solution, though not the cheapest, has been to install a through the wall
>heater, which pulls outside air into the combustion chamber, and vents
>burned air to the outside. The heat exchanger and fan move inside air
>across a heated surface and blows it into the garage.
Gary, et al:
Your comments about open flame and humidity are both very well taken. I'd
thought about a formal sort of furnace set up like you describe but that
really isn't practicable where I live. In our rural setting in New Jersey
we don't have a natural gas line to tap into without major $ output. The
house is heated with oil/water baseboard, but that system is about 150 yards
from the garage so a tap into THAT is also $$$. If I'm going to spend that
sort of money I'd rather get a new Jag XK8 and to hell with the garage (!).
I'm leaning towards the propane heat for two reasons: its generally safer to
store, being in a metal tank and not being open to the atmosphere (unlike
kerosene), and the heaters themselves are quiet and probably require less
(albeit modest) maintenance than a kerosene heater (no wick). The down side
is that propane is probably more expensive per calorie, but by the end of a
winter that might amount to 10 dollars one way or the other, for the number
of hours I'll be out there.
Will
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