pushrod-racing
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- Jan 27, 2015
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my shops an all steel 40x60x16 and is only insulated by the 1/4" double bubble or whatever its called insulation. I use my shop mostly to keep my race car and daily drivers in, but I do often have some lengthy projects and work out there hours at a time. The last 3 years ive been using a very small craftsman forced air propane heater.This heater does the job but at 13-16.00 a bottle gets expensive. I recently was given a reznor heater from my place of employment due to they went full central heat and air.
Well myself knowing nothing ran a 3/4" PE line from my house meter to my shop (80') and was fixing to hook this heater up when i found out with my 1/4lb residential gas service the max btu i can run with the line i just ran is 70-75k btu. I know i should have looked into all this first. My heater is a reznor either 150 or 160k so its not going to work.
That being said what natural gas 60-65k btu heater would you guys recommend me to buy. im not going to keep the shop heated im just looking for something i can turn on say an hour before i start working and itll knock the chill off the shop. I live in central tennessee and most of our winters are mid to upper teens, we have on a couple occasions dipped into single digits. ill also have 3 ceiling fans to help circulate the air because ive learn in the past my heat is rising and itll be much warmer on the higher level as i was wiring somelights in once and it was a great difference ground level to ceiling level.
Thank you so much for your help
Well myself knowing nothing ran a 3/4" PE line from my house meter to my shop (80') and was fixing to hook this heater up when i found out with my 1/4lb residential gas service the max btu i can run with the line i just ran is 70-75k btu. I know i should have looked into all this first. My heater is a reznor either 150 or 160k so its not going to work.
That being said what natural gas 60-65k btu heater would you guys recommend me to buy. im not going to keep the shop heated im just looking for something i can turn on say an hour before i start working and itll knock the chill off the shop. I live in central tennessee and most of our winters are mid to upper teens, we have on a couple occasions dipped into single digits. ill also have 3 ceiling fans to help circulate the air because ive learn in the past my heat is rising and itll be much warmer on the higher level as i was wiring somelights in once and it was a great difference ground level to ceiling level.
Thank you so much for your help