Recent content by Peter Hightower

I have a 3 car garage, new insulated doors, r16 walls, vapour barrier with uninsulated cathedral ceiling. Had a 240 volt line run from breaker in basement to garage. Have a Canadian Tire 7500 watt heater with remote. Run it for hour or so aimed towards one side of garage and it takes the chill...

Thanks all for the info. I have a job quote Thursday for electrical. It’s a 3 car garage, walls insulated r12,vap. Barrier and Osb over that. Not sure what to do about ceiling. Was going to tack up some 4x8 ridged pink insulation on the horizontal ceiling joists and leave the above cathedral...

Has anyone in southern Ontario installed an electric garage heater and found it helpful and somewhat cost effective ? I think a natural gas heater plus the install price would be greater than an electrician running 240 line and hooking up a $300 mastercraft heater. Or am I way off ? Thanks for...

New here, sorry if this was asked already. I’ll learn over time. I’m in Ontario Canada where it gets cold in winter. I have insulated a 3 car garage which is un heated. I’m at the stage of what to do with the ceiling. It has a frame rafters with joists 16 on centre so I could just screw 4x8...