Hey everyone, last summer we moved to a new house and there was a shop already built. It is much smaller than the one I had built before, but this one is fully brick construction, all 4 sides brick, with blown in insulation for the walls and ceiling. Interior dimensions are 25ft by 29ft with 9.5ft ceiling height. The shop already has a hotel-style heat and a/c unit, I believe the are referred to as heat pumps. The problem is during the winter, the outside air is too cold to use in normal heat pump mode, so it goes into auxiliary heat mode. This is pretty pitiful in terms of the amount of heat it puts out. So I've learned that I need some other form of heat, at least something to supplement the auxiliary heat that is being put out by the heat pump.
Now floor space is a premium so I can't use something like a wood stove or pellet stove that takes up floor space year round. I've got too many things inside and I can't give up any more dedicated floor space.
The shop has a very tall and steep pitched roof so I have plenty of easy access to the attic area, so mounting a heater from the ceiling would be pretty easy. I do not have natural gas service, so it would either have to be propane or electric. I do have 200 amp service coming to the shop. I would prefer not to have to drill through the brick exterior walls for anything though. I could probably get by with a small forced air/torpedo propane heater or one of those tower style propane convection heaters. For $100, that would be the quick and easy fix. I don't spend a ton of time in the shop in the winter, just for little "piddle" projects on the weekend. If I could get the temp inside up to 60-65 degrees, I would be good with that. But I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on heaters for my shop. Thanks!
Now floor space is a premium so I can't use something like a wood stove or pellet stove that takes up floor space year round. I've got too many things inside and I can't give up any more dedicated floor space.
The shop has a very tall and steep pitched roof so I have plenty of easy access to the attic area, so mounting a heater from the ceiling would be pretty easy. I do not have natural gas service, so it would either have to be propane or electric. I do have 200 amp service coming to the shop. I would prefer not to have to drill through the brick exterior walls for anything though. I could probably get by with a small forced air/torpedo propane heater or one of those tower style propane convection heaters. For $100, that would be the quick and easy fix. I don't spend a ton of time in the shop in the winter, just for little "piddle" projects on the weekend. If I could get the temp inside up to 60-65 degrees, I would be good with that. But I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on heaters for my shop. Thanks!