garage heaters

[tony k]

anyone know a good electric heater to get for my garage,it was barry baltic in there saturday,dont want a gas one as dont want a gas bottle in there,been looking at b an q ones,was wondering what some of you guys have


cheers

[Connor]

How big is your garage?
I would advise just keeping your thermoflask topped up
and to put a few more layers on :thumb:

[tony k]

its big enough for the nova,plus i can walk round it easerly,got me flask topped up,i like working in the nod tho lol

[Gareth_C]

Try machine mart mae clarke do some decent ones I have one for my garage and it soon warms the place up

[wwmnw]

Try machine mart mae clarke do some decent ones I have one for my garage and it soon warms the place up

True that, within about 5 minutes its actually too warm.

[L14MNP]

Electric fan/element heaters cost a fortune to run.

Much better off with a gas one IMO. I have a gas fire to go in the garage, but no need yet. Just get the layers on! lol

[bai1ey]

we have a log burning stove in the corner of our garage befour that though we had a parafin heater now that kicked out the heat

[tony k]

thanks guys,i dont like the gas heaters just abit paranoid about them

[shorty249]

i have just got 2 parafin/diesel space heaters from work second hand (price not yet confirmed with the boss ha ha) one bigger than the other, the big one gives out 47kw of heat, hoping it will heat my workshop up, havnt tryed it yet as only got them today.my workshop is 12m x 6m so not expecting mericles but il let you know how i get on with it.

[dyl rhino]

got an old oil burner in work. gives great heat output just a biatch to clean out :)

[burgo]

speak to porter about building you a waste oil burner. his is awesome

[Nova_Tek]

http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Heaters/buy-PROLINE-FAN20-Heater/262854

I bought one of these the other day.

So far it's been brilliant. Warms up my living room which is 20ft x 12ft in no time. Had it on while I was working on the Cav in the cold (about -1) and it was snowing. Kept me nice and comfortable.

Chucks out good heat considering the size and price.

Well worth the money.

[nitrousnova]

screw fix have got some convector heaters on offer for £20.
depends how well insulated your garage is?
got two in my garage seem to work quite well.

[LEWI007]

Big oil drum full of rubbish and wood and stuff and pour oil in it and light it.

Thats how i used to do it last year

Was outside the garage though... :(

[16v Nova Kev]

we have a log burning stove in the corner of our garage

thats an epic win i have thought about that one myself. i have a gas one and it heats up in no time and a 30kg bottle lasts ages.:thumb:

[ste porter]

what you need is a frank lol

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cost 0 pounds 0 pence to build when using forced air it sees temps of about 700 degrees and runs soley on waste engine oil! completly free in other words.
will run on anything you want though oil wise veg cooking oil diesel anything heavy with a high flash point
will boil tin kettle in about 40 seconds when on full wack!
and the best bit when its running hot it burns clean as a whistle

only down fall i have is my workshop is the size of it! its about 60 feet long by 25 feet wide with a very high non insulated asbestos roof. As a result it struggles on its own to keep the place in heat but does take the chill of but i have a plan!

im going to weld a large box section to the back of it about roughly 1 foot out 2 foot wide and 3 foot tall weld some unions in it have an outlet from the top add 4 big iron radiators a central heating pump and an over flow level tank and whola
one fully self contained central heating system! run for virtualy nothing all year using only waste oil as fuel for the boiler

its how alot of yanks and canadians heat there homes all year!

but in a workshop the size of yours that on its own in the corner using a drip method which will use about half a liter of oil an hour would have you working in there in shorts and t shirt in about half hour !

[16v Nova Kev]

^that needs a thread in articles or a how too.

[shorty249]

yes please ste porter!!

can we have a how to on this as i like the idea of have central heating in the garage !

[_JH_]

If you're paranoid about a gas fire, a waste oil burner will give the same worries. In either case you can always stick a carbon monoxide detector up, and just make sure the garage is ventilated.

I bought a tidy, fairly new super ser type gas heater on ebay for about £40 locally. Workshop is quite high, cement roof etc so it has to be flat out, but it takes the chill off nicely.

but if you can, go for the waste oil burner as above, you'll be toast.

there's one being built here: http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=23193

[Mike]

Jesus people still make them lol my dad has a massive one in his workshop when he was in the army on the barracks lol lol that was about 1973 lol