Baseboard heat available now... any thoughts?

[2500avalanche]

OK,
So I just found out that my house will be going with a new furnace (forced air), and the existing boiler/pipes can be used for just the garage.
So I have a question.
Baseboard water heat in a garage? Do people do this? Does it work well? Just curious becuase I have about 90% of the supplies here that I can re-use in my garage.
THanks!

 

[jklingel]

You're just heating space, so why not? The only problem I can see is that in a garage you tend to have cabinets, etc, all around the wall, or, if you are like me, carp just seems to grow out of the wall and sit there. Ever think about radiant in the ceiling?

 

[2500avalanche]

Never thought of that. I have bedrooms above the garage. It is only going to be 8'... I don't know if I could with codes

 

[Cuda]

The only concern I would have is recovery time when you open a garage door for any period of time. I think it would take a while to bring the temp in the garage back up. But it is a garage after all.
Maybe a hot water coil in a make up air unit would work better.

 

[woody2136]

Interesting...I have baseboard in the house and I'm looking for the best option for heat in the garage. I thought about a wall-mount ventless gas heater, but worry about moisture. Seems like baseboard would be decent?

 

[Gooch]

Hanging Radiator with a Fan mounted on the ceiling. Fast Recovery.

 

[2500avalanche]

how high do your ceilings have to be

 

[nate379]

Yup, what I was going to suggest as well.

Hanging Radiator with a Fan mounted on the ceiling. Fast Recovery.

 

[djjsr]

Many years ago, I built a really big heating radiator out of elements from 6 used baseboard units that were 8 ft long. Made some brackets to stack them and plumbed them in series. Fabricated a vented metal housing about 8 ft wide, 4 ft high and 4" deep to cover it and ended up with a unit that threw LOTS of heat. Cost was next to nothing and it didn't take up much wall space compared to regular baseboard heat.

 

[BoilermakerNate]

You're going to definitely want some air movement for recovering the space quickly from opening the doors. Along the same lines as a radiator with a fan, you could use a hot water suspended unit heater. Very similar to a modine hot dawg or reznor gas fired heater, just has a hot water coil instead.

 

[2500avalanche]

How exactly would this look? I just cant picture it.

You're going to definitely want some air movement for recovering the space quickly from opening the doors. Along the same lines as a radiator with a fan, you could use a hot water suspended unit heater. Very similar to a modine hot dawg or reznor gas fired heater, just has a hot water coil instead.

 

[2500avalanche]

How would this look? Are there any pics of this type of set up?

Yup, what I was going to suggest as well.

 

[hboy7777]

 

[hboy7777]

here is a link to some different models
http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/Hot-Water-_-Steam-Unit-Heaters/products/1056/

 

[nate379]

Yeah it looks just like a Hot Dawg but just used water instead of nat gas and a burner.

My friends garage uses one. Now I'm not sure if his circ pumps are running all the time, but the only on/off on it is a 120v T Stat that runs the fan on or off.

How would this look? Are there any pics of this type of set up?