Heating Your Shop

[Mugz]

Got rid of a wood stove a couple years ago.....(Hope it's working for you by the way). Need heat in the shop. Was looking at one of those propane jobbers that mount to the top of a grill propane tank. Not looking for 70 degree temperatures but something to take the chill out of the shop.....SAFELY. I have a huge bazooka style kerosene heater but am afraid to use it with no ventilation.
Also, I use water base Createx paints so I have NO FUMES.
What do you guys use????....I need some suggestions.
It's a detached one car garage with a small workshop off the side.

[BigFish]

My shop is a detached 1 car also....I have been using a propane bazooka heater, small one....works great! I will be installing a woodstove shortly!

[mikecc]

2 stall garage lower & Upper, I take the chill out with propane bazooka then use woodstove to maintain the heat

[Ake G]

Consider a Rinnai propane heater (permanent install that vents outside via pipe-in-a-pipe). Not cheap initially,but easy to install yourself. Get a small tank from the gas supplier and you're all set.

Very safe,efficient and cheap to run, it's WELL worth it. It's great to have real heat out there....I practically live out in my shop.

[Mugz]

Sounds great but pricey......but not economical at this time. Garage is not insulated. Just wouldn't make sense to spend a lot of $$ on this right now. Eventually the shop will be insulated and be upgraded.
Need safe, cheap, quick heat to last a couple hours, a couple days a week. My spinner is a heated box so the heat is for me, not the work!!

[nightprowler]

my parents have a house on the vineyard that isn't winterized, when i use it in the late fall and early spring i have been using a kerosene heater. i just got it last year, but it worked amazingly well. most of the fall wasn't that bad but that first weekend in november was super cold and that heater kept my girlfriend and i toasty...not that she didn't kee me warm enough
why are you afraid to use it?

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by Ake G

Consider a Rinnai propane heater (permanent install that vents outside via pipe-in-a-pipe). Not cheap initially,but easy to install yourself. Get a small tank from the gas supplier and you're all set.

Very safe,efficient and cheap to run, it's WELL worth it. It's great to have real heat out there....I practically live out in my shop.

I heat my home in Truro from April 1 to Thanksgiving weekend with Rinnai heaters. Worth every cent.

[derf]

just a thought on the use of kerosene heaters .
if any one has respiratory problems , asthma etc ; a kerosene heater can be really harmful !!
i used one for many years , i can't be near one one now with out having breathing difficulties ......
derf

[Mugz]

Thanks for the replies.....I will give the one I have a try. It's a garage....so I think it will be fine. If the fumes are bad, I'll sell the thing and buy something else.

[Grapenuts]

If that kero-heater is an older one....even before you look at it,,you best take in and get it tuned up or it will smoke you out and stink like He//..your room will look like the fog came in...

[Mugz]

Anyone want to buy a big kerosene heater? I'm going to buy a propane jobber.

[GattaFish]

OK, I am new to the site and try not to say much. But having had the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning I have to say be very careful with Kerosene & Propane in non-ventilated areas no matter how much you think you can do it without a problem. Or think you can shut it off if it starts to bother you. Remember it is colorless, tasteless and ordorless.

If you are lucky enough to or by the time you realize that it is affecting you, it has already pushed carbon monoxide deep into your blood. It attaches itself to the hemoglobin and affects the bloods ability to carry oxygen to the brain, central nervous system and the heart. Some of which takes a long time to leave your body. Some may never leave. This will make your tolerance to CO much less the more you are exposed to it. Granted when you stop or remove the source you will stop the symptoms but if you have kids, pregnant wife or are planning to make babies it is not good for you be around them with those clothes or CO in your blood.

So when you get a headache or start to see signs of Cyanosis (blue lips and fingernails) you have already experienced serious poisoning. Please if you decide to use that type of heat, make sure the unit is cleaned and tuned up, have some ventilation and DEFINITELY get a CO monitor/detector.

BE SAFE

THE FNG

[BigFish]

Good advice!

[Young Salt]

i have a monoxide detector in the shed, and ive never had it go off with the heater on. I figured the amount of CO comming off it was so small it wasn't a problem....am i wrong? I ve had it on for hours at a time in Jan-Feb without having any symptoms.

[Slipknot]

Youngsalt, you must be smart enough to have some ventilation to let air in and CO out, so maybe that is why the detector hasn't gone off, replace the detector if you have any doubts.

[BigFish]

Youngsalt...your family will be the first notified if you have a problem!

If your shed is not insulated and is not what they call "tight" you are surely getting fresh air through the cracks as is the co2 escaping.