Here are some of the ideas I have had for having a tosty garage.
Personal favourite drive the car for 10 miles before you put it away in the
garage. It's then warm enough to work on.
Floor 1. Old carpet, I highly recommend this unfortunately it only lasts a
year until in needs renewing.
Floor 2. Put wooden batters 1/4" high on the floor, then get 1/4" sheets of
polystyrene. Then MDF sheets on top. If you get the batten distribution
right you will not need too thicker MDF sheet.
Roof, presuming only rafters visible. Rockwool in the roof, then nail fibre
board under the rafters to keep it there. This also lightens the ceiling.
Walls Cheap. Thick old carpet
Walls. 1" Polystyrene trick with fibreboard with the holes in, you then
have somewhere to put your tools.
Garage door cheap. Carpet.
Garage door expensive. Get some windproof cloth, and build a frame around
the door, so that you can zip up the garage door.
Heating. Electric is very expensive to run compared to burning something.
1/2 a can of propane cigarette lighter refill fluid will heat up my garage
in no time, but that's not recommended if you have anything in there like a
car or petrol. (This was used when the garage had nothing in it and I
wanted to play dart's)
Heating. If you have an old fridge or freezer put the cold bit outside and
the hot bit inside and run it. You get more energy out than you put in. If
you then immerse the cold bit in water, then pump the water around where say
a fence in black pipes so that you loose all the cold even better heat the
water, or a stream. You can put in 1kW of electricity and get out between
3kW and 15kW of heat. Then in the summer, you pump the refrigerant the
other way and you have air conditioning.
If you do heat with gas get one of those carbon monoxide detectors, just a
dot that turns black. There so cheap and could save you life.
Remember.
Yellow flame = lots of carbon monoxide. Blue flame = some carbon monoxide.
If you don't have a sealed system, clean out the heater out regularly.
Check for soot, if there is any get it survived by a professional.
Don't run you car inside the garage to warm it.
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