Shop heater

[Spaarky]

64x42 shop. 18' ceiling or so. You can easily fit a combine in under the overhead door.

Is radiant my best option for heat? I don't want to spend a fortune up front, but don't want to be stupid. Too late for in floor. I don't have time to cut wood to utilize wood burning.

I am out there about 3 evenings a week.

 

[christopher]

if you are NOT in the shop 4 nights out of 7, then I would think Radian might not be E-Ticket.

Doesn't radiant work best for "constant" long term heating?

If you decide its time to head out to the garage and start working, don't you want Instant-On heat?

Or do you want to keep it heated 24/7 ?

 

[coyoteman]

If it were mine I'd do radiant and keep the shop above freezing all winter long then turn it up when you are working out there. The problem with any heat source will be it will take forever to get that much concrete warmed up if it is cold. Radiant will heat the concrete faster than a forced air furnace. I have forced air but am planning on putting in a radiant tube and just using my furnace for a/c just for that reason.

 

[05900]

Gas or propane radiant tube heaters
http://www.pnsgarageinstallations.co.uk/media/equipment/blackheat-linear-heater.jpg
look like this but are huge!

Insulated at all will help tremendously..every nook and cranny.

 

[crashnbash]

What ever heat system you use put in some ceiling fans to push the hot air back down.

 

[bholmlate]

localized infrared radiant heaters they don't heat the air they everything within the space looks like 05900 beat me to it

 

[Spaarky]

K.. radiant seems to be the answer. that's what I figure, but thought maybe I was missing something.

Have the ceiling fans.

The only thing we should have done was to put foam under the concrete to insulate it. That would have helped a ton....

 

[Snow Duck]

this is what i run..

a modine high efficiency 125000 for my garage...I can work in my tee shirt and drink beer all night...

 

[05rmksteve]

Install both a hanging forced air gas furnace for quick recovery and a radiant tube for comfort. You just have to watch the clearances on the radiant heaters. If I remember right it's 6-8' below heater to combustibles and they hang about 2' down from the ceiling.