New shop/garage heating ideas

[BPSTravis]

I am hopefully building a new house with an attached shop and garage, both 24x26 with a wall dividing them on the 24' side, the dividing wall has a 8x10 garage door in it.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to heat both spaces but my budget is making things difficult, obviously the best solution would be a furnace with 2 zones but that was quoted at 8k(no duct work) which is not within budget right now. My second thought was to put an 80k hanging gas heater in the shop and leave the door open to the garage(when i'm not working in there) to let heat pass between spaces.

Both spaces have 72" ceiling fans in them to circulate air, and if needed I could run a fan in the opened garage door to help force warm air into the garage.

My goal is to be able to have both spaces at ~50 degrees, then close the garage door and turn up the shop to 60-65 when I'm working on something, anyone have any other crazy ideas or tried something like this in the past?

I'd prefer not to have 2 hanging gas heaters vented out the side for aesthetics so adding another gas heater to the garage isn't really the route I want to go.

 

[Yankeefarmer]

Put a furnace with return grill in the shop. Use a simple “T” shaped duct arrangement with one feeding the shop and one the garage. No fancy zoning controls to add cost. Leave the garage door between areas open when you want both at 50. When you want the shop warmer, close the garage door and turn the thermostat up. If you find that the garage cools down too much, add a vent between the two areas to promote more heated air to the garage under those conditions.

You may want to add a variable register in the shop if you find it gets too warm compared to the garage, but that’d be a ”fine tuning” tweak, since the 50 degrees you seek is not likely a precise control need.

 

[Steve in UT]

I have 3 shop spaces I heat with a conventional furnace. I use a wireless thermostat that I can move to whichever side I want to regulate. The pictures in the link below don't show it very well but I have return air ducts along the floor coming from the other two sides.

Is anyone doing a conventional forced air system for their pole barn?

I’ve started looking into the ways to heat/cool a pole barn. I see a lot of people are using mini split systems vs a conventional forced air system. I recently looked at a pole barn, it was a 60x48x14 I believe and it had a forced air system. Anyone they have buildings that size have forced air...

www.garagejournal.com

 

[cpttuna]

I am hopefully building a new house with an attached shop and garage, both 24x26 with a wall dividing them on the 24' side, the dividing wall has a 8x10 garage door in it.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to heat both spaces but my budget is making things difficult, obviously the best solution would be a furnace with 2 zones but that was quoted at 8k(no duct work) which is not within budget right now. My second thought was to put an 80k hanging gas heater in the shop and leave the door open to the garage(when i'm not working in there) to let heat pass between spaces.

Both spaces have 72" ceiling fans in them to circulate air, and if needed I could run a fan in the opened garage door to help force warm air into the garage.

My goal is to be able to have both spaces at ~50 degrees, then close the garage door and turn up the shop to 60-65 when I'm working on something, anyone have any other crazy ideas or tried something like this in the past?

I'd prefer not to have 2 hanging gas heaters vented out the side for aesthetics so adding another gas heater to the garage isn't really the route I want to go.

Talk to your local plumbing and heating man. See if he can find you a used mobile home furnace or two.

 

[yeldogt]

I am hopefully building a new house with an attached shop and garage, both 24x26 with a wall dividing them on the 24' side, the dividing wall has a 8x10 garage door in it.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to heat both spaces but my budget is making things difficult, obviously the best solution would be a furnace with 2 zones but that was quoted at 8k(no duct work) which is not within budget right now. My second thought was to put an 80k hanging gas heater in the shop and leave the door open to the garage(when i'm not working in there) to let heat pass between spaces.

Both spaces have 72" ceiling fans in them to circulate air, and if needed I could run a fan in the opened garage door to help force warm air into the garage.

My goal is to be able to have both spaces at ~50 degrees, then close the garage door and turn up the shop to 60-65 when I'm working on something, anyone have any other crazy ideas or tried something like this in the past?

I'd prefer not to have 2 hanging gas heaters vented out the side for aesthetics so adding another gas heater to the garage isn't really the route I want to go.

do you have natural gas?

 

[BPSTravis]

do you have natural gas?

Yes.

I talked to a few HVAC guys locally and think I figured out a solution.

I am going to use an old blower fan I have linked to a thermostat in garage, going to have ducting going from blower fan(in the heated shop) to the garage and a return on the other side of the same wall so that blower will circulate hot air from the shop into the garage until target temp is reached then shut off the blower fan.

The shop will have a 80k big max heater tied to it's own thermostat in the shop.

Will also double as a way to move some air around in both spaces as well.