Heating a basement garage?

[BigE]

In my area of the country, it's very common to see a two story house where the bottom floor is a basement/garage. The upper floor is the living space. Typically, the house is set into a hill partially such that the garage daylights on one side but the other end of the basement is under ground. This works well to insulate the basement a little bit. If the whole basement is unfinished, how would you heat it? Natural gas? Electric? Keep in mind that there is typically no insulation between the basement/garage and the upper floor.

 

[TheMangler]

My dads house is like this. His garage stays around 50-60 all winter long here in michigan just from heating the house.

 

[BigE]

No one has this kind of setup?

 

[Stefan S]

I would use whatever fuel is going to be cheapest or existing already in your house.

I have the same type of house - I have my garage set up on a separate zone from the rest of the basement. I use a modine water to air heater in the garage and traditional baseboard hearing in the garage.

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[BigE]

Does the water have its own pump or did you pull off a boiler system in the house?