Shop/garage heating & cooling: what'd you go with? - Page 3

Nova Jed · #21 12-10-2007, 06:40 AM

I wish I would have been on here last year because I do HVAC work and have had the chance to install the apex tubing in sub floors. Stuff works like a charm when the system is installed correctly. Yes, it is costly but you won't be disappointed when you are on a warm floor!

**Salvatore** · #22 12-10-2007, 04:10 PM

I have electric heat ceiling hung. I was going to Have Benny do me a propne unit but much to expensive around here. 75' of 10/3 romex a 30/2pole breaker and some staples and a piece of conduit is all it took. Have about $400.00 rapped up into plus my labor. But my garage is only 24X24. Most of the time when we did jobs like yours Rob, Companies went with gas or 480V-3 phase heat. Electric is the easiest/cheapest in my opinion right now.

CanadianPoncho · #23 12-10-2007, 09:40 PM

I run a Schwank 20ft radiant in my 20X32 garage. It is spray foam insulated as well. Very, very air tight! I have to crack my garage door open a touch when I turn my ventilation fan on. Overall I'm happy with it. It gets very warm very fast!
Todd

Chevy454 · #24 12-11-2007, 05:49 PM

We ended up going with a heat pump...so far, so good!

P.J. · #25 12-11-2007, 06:11 PM

I pondered all those options too.Then a friend of mine said
why spend all that money on a heating system for my 20 x30 insulated shop.Just go to HOME Depo and buy a 220 volt
electric thermostat fanned heater for $ 75.00 and that all you need.
I Did just that and its perfect I can control the temp
as hot as I want. When I go to work in the shop I turn it on and in about 10 minutes its at 72and hotter if I want.
I also leave the heater on at about 55 when i am not working in the shop. The electric bill is just slightly more than when I am not running it. My friend put in a gas
overhead furnace at a cost of 1500. dollars. It will take a long time for me to spend 1500. on electric bill to heat my shop
PJ

retengw31 · #26 12-11-2007, 06:29 PM

I have a 26 x 36 very well insulated garage built like a house (as contrasted to a pole barn) I have the 75k Modine Hot Dawg running on natural gas. Does a great job even here in Michigan. Keep T'stat at 50, bump to 60 when I work in there. Anything more and it gets too uncomfortable.

Had an old window unit air conditioner, so cut a hole in the wall and installed it up high ear the work bench. Didn't do too good until I put a fan on the workbench right under it aimed at the workshop area. THAT did the trick.

I rigged up a heavy cord that allows me to plug in my big generator in power outages in place of the air compressor and back feed power to my house. Just isolate it from the outside world and use only the critical circuits (beer fridge, well pump) Works quite well. No exhaust and noise problems in the house.

Neighbors around me have permanent backup systems that come on automatically when power goes off. Pretty slick, run on natural gas. Other than the noise, you'd never know the diff.