Garage heating alternatives?

[G-ZUS]

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I can get deals on Modine "Hot Dawg" and others. I made the mistake once running a 5 or 10kw ouellet elect forced air heater for a month = $500+ electric bill lol. I saved tons of money digging the trench for the gas line myself. Tee'd off for my bbq also, cost around $650 including permit for the fitter!

What you need are 2 or 3 of those oil filled electric heaters. My grandpa used them in his garage and kept it quite warm.
Run them on low all the time, play with the thermostats after 24 hrs. They don't use a lot of current and hold/radiate heat for a long time. Maybe a few newish used from kijiji?

I think honeywell maybe makes the safest one

http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ga...-0435994p.html

How much can you get a reznor for? Any hook up for install?

[legendboy]

I'll check next week

[ercchry]

Radiant in floor heat! Don’t want that gas heater melting the plastic on your summer car up on the lift!

[goldfish168]

Has anybody looked into a waste oil heater? It'd be nice to just fuel it using used motor oil but my brief search shows they're like 10X the cost of a regular natural gas heater so you would probably never recoup the cost. Am I wrong?

[Tik-Tok]

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And a baller that wants rusty cars

Horseshit. I've heated my garage at 8* all winter long for 14 years. The longest car I owned was my Audi, for 8 years. There wasn't a spec of rust on it.

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Has anybody looked into a waste oil heater? It'd be nice to just fuel it using used motor oil but my brief search shows they're like 10X the cost of a regular natural gas heater so you would probably never recoup the cost. Am I wrong?

Worth it if you have a daily supply of free used oil and plan on owning your house forever.

[Buster]

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Radiant in floor heat! Don’t want that gas heater melting the plastic on your summer car up on the lift!

I have in-slab water heating in the garage. Runs off the same boiler as my basement in-floor heating. It's pretty miraculous the recovery time on it - and the warm slab is comfortable to walk around on.

[ExtraSlow]

Are you married, because I'm interested....

[Darell_n]

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Has anybody looked into a waste oil heater? It'd be nice to just fuel it using used motor oil but my brief search shows they're like 10X the cost of a regular natural gas heater so you would probably never recoup the cost. Am I wrong?

I’ve known a few garages that used these heaters. They all were switched to nat gas as the waste oil heaters were high maintenance and unreliable pieces of sh*t.

[The_Rural_Juror]

Is gas cheaper than electric to install and run long term? I can do both but haven't picked one yet.

[speedog]

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Seth said a smart thing. Totally agree with the physics of this statement.

Electricity, as a fuel, has inefficiencies but the inefficiencies of creating electricity occur before it gets to the consumer.

[Seth1968]

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Electricity, as a fuel, has inefficiencies but the inefficiencies of creating electricity occur before it gets to the consumer.

How is this relevant to my point?

[Maxt]

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Has anybody looked into a waste oil heater? It'd be nice to just fuel it using used motor oil but my brief search shows they're like 10X the cost of a regular natural gas heater so you would probably never recoup the cost. Am I wrong?

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I’ve known a few garages that used these heaters. They all were switched to nat gas as the waste oil heaters were high maintenance and unreliable pieces of sh*t.

They burn a absolute shit ton of oil.. I took care of one for a while in a heavy truck shop, even with 20 tractors, and 40 pilot trucks on the road full time, they couldn't keep that thing in oil. Myself and others were bringing oil from our home garages and dumping it in their tank. Every month, it generated a couple of wheelbarrows full of ash to deal with on top of it.. The oil also has to be kept warm or its too thick to vaporize and ignite, which means giving up floor space to the tank...

[ExtraSlow]

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Electricity, as a fuel, has inefficiencies but the inefficiencies of creating electricity occur before it gets to the consumer.

Totally true, but the consumer is charged by the watts delivered to thier house. If those watts are powering a heater, they are getting 100% efficiency for the energy they are buying.

Price obviously factors into economics, and methods of generating the power factor into environmental /social impacts. Methods of resource extraction matter too.

[Darell_n]

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They burn a absolute shit ton of oil.. I took care of one for a while in a heavy truck shop, even with 20 tractors, and 40 pilot trucks on the road full time, they couldn't keep that thing in oil. Myself and others were bringing oil from our home garages and dumping it in their tank. Every month, it generated a couple of wheelbarrows full of ash to deal with on top of it.. The oil also has to be kept warm or its too thick to vaporize and ignite, which means giving up floor space to the tank...

The ones I mentioned were at quickie lube places. With a building full of used oil daily they still didn’t work out economically.

[J-hop]

Yea not sure how I feel about running a waste oil heater in an enclosed space? I imagine they aren’t super clean burning?

[Isaiah]

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uh... building/fire code?

Please elaborate.

[ercchry]

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Please elaborate.

you are to have fire separation between house and garage, plus carbon monoxide and other vehicle related fumes can also get pumped around your house (entering house when air is not blowing through the vents). so many reasons why its not a good idea... and not legal. someone with a copy of the codes can post the sections if they want. but as i no longer work in the industry i have no access myself.

[suntan]

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And a baller that wants rusty cars

You install a car wash before the garage, so your car is always clean.

[benyl]

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I have in-slab water heating in the garage. Runs off the same boiler as my basement in-floor heating. It's pretty miraculous the recovery time on it - and the warm slab is comfortable to walk around on.

Combined with floor drains, kids B-day parties in the garage make for easy cleanup. Turn up the heat to 21 and they can drop food and cake all over the place and I don't care.

We run ours at 15C all winter. My wife and kids don't even take coats when they go to Chinook or Market because you go from heated to heated parking.

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Are you married, because I'm interested....

What about me? haha.

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You install a car wash before the garage, so your car is always clean.

I was tempted when building my house. Was going to put waterproof drywall and a curtain.

But then we bought my mom a condo about 5 minutes away. It has a wash bay.

[J-hop]

Do any of you heated guys have moisture issues at all?