furnace installation

[myersb75]

I just recently purchased a used house trailer furnace from a friend. Now I want to install it in my garage.Any ideas on location, where I should put it.
My garage is a three bay 48'x28' with 10' ceilings. The furnace is 100000 btu.
with the heat coming out of the bottom.

 

[oldgoat]

Mount it on a stand so that the burners will be well up off the floor and be far less chance of causing a fire. You could run a simple duct down to the floor and then branch out so that the heat is spread out and keep you warm. Draw the return from the ceiling. One guy I knew built a little shed on the back of his garage and then run the duct into the garage so there wasn't a possibility of the furnace causing a fire. With the return line he put a smaller line that mixed outside air in with the hot return air so that the air wasn't so dry.

 

[myersb75]

Thanks for the info. I was planning on building frame,not sure about the material. What do you think wood 2x4s and plywood or angle iron and sheet metal? The wood and 2x4s I already have. Also I was planning on building a closet to put the furnace in. The door would have filter in it and three vents for heat.

 

[oldgoat]

I would make the stand for the furnace out of angle iron. Would have to check and find out how close to wood that you can place it for the clearances in the closet. The closet is a good idea though. My brother in law did it that way when he put a furnace in my Mom's house and it made it look a lot nicer. I think that water heaters have to have the flame at least 18" off the floor, but since you have the room I would go higher. I saw one that had it probably a good 3ft off the floor. I'm kind of a chicken when it comes to fire so to me the higher the better. You could use sheet metal to make the box from the bottom of the furnace to the floor to connect the ducts to.

 

[Vetter]

I put one of these Mobile home furnaces in my garage a few years ago. I made the bottom frame out of 2x4's, figuring this is what they used in the mobile home, and had a duct box made at the local furnace shop, I have 3 ducts from the box, 1 to my office, 1 to my pump room, and 1 to the garage part, which I can shut off any of them if need be.
The furnace works great. The only problem I had, was when the Propane company came out to hook it up, they wouldn't, they said because it wasn't done by a licensed contractor, and it was a modified setup. No way was I gonna pay someone a grand to hook up something that cost me $40 to hook up, so I tapped into the line myself. Not wise for insurance purposes, but I only use it when I'm in the garage, and my Dad was a furnace man his whole life(retired) and he said the hookup was fine. This is just something you may want to check into.

 

[myersb75]

Thanks! After looking at the furnace I'm decided to use kindorf and all thread to hang the unit from the ceiling. I will make a duct from some sheet metal. Now my newest problem is triing to find a 4" automatic flue damper. The heating/ac supply houses will not sell me anything without a licence. Does anybody know where I could order one online? The furnace is oil fired.