heating option

[blueovalforever]

I have a 30x50 detached shop with 13'6" walls. i have a small office area in the corner that is enclosed from the rest of the shop. i got some r19 insulation i am putting in the walls not. eventually it will be all covered with osb and a finished ceiling. right now it is colder inside than outside it seems. it is all 2x6 walls with a black fiberboard on the outside with siding and shingle roof with 6 flat vents in the roof. what can i do for some temporary heat this winter? i have tried to use a 55000 btu salimander with no luck at all. besides the inside work i am building a car so i need to take the chill off somehow. i was thinking of using one or 2 or the tank top propane heaters for now. any suggestions? any help would be much appreciated.

 

[blueovalforever]

Anyone?

 

[jkwilson]

It can take a lot of heat to overcome the thermal mass of the concrete floor, and without something to move it, most of your heat will go to the top and stay there. I heat my 32X64 building that is a little taller than yours and only a little insulated with 120,000 BTU salamander. I can get it warm enough to work with just a flannel shirt. I usually have a fan blowing overhead to keep the air mixed.

 

[cnttxmdc]

If 55k btu (if that's what it's actually putting out that) isn't doing the trick, I'd go for one of the diesel or kerosene heaters. One of the mechanics at our hangar has a 120k btu unit that really puts out well. Either that, or a wood stove would be my picks.

 

[pdisher]

3 words

mini split heat pump(s)

 

[blueovalforever]

Well I picked ip 2 of the dual tank top infered 30k btu heaters for now. I have 3 full 100gal tanks. I think I will stick a temporary fan up top and roll out some plastic while I work on the walls and car this winter. I have a hanging 85k btu heater that I got from family but it is old and uses 5inch pipe and if I havea problem with it the newer ones don't use 5 inch. Once insulated would a gas house furnace work good?

 

[Charles (in GA)]

3 words

mini split heat pump(s)

Really, two posts in nearly a year since you joined, and the OP has a building that is unfinished both inside and out. Black fiberboard outside and nothing inside and you recommend a Mini Split as a temporary form of heat................

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To the OP if you have natural gas, one or two hanging shop type gas heaters such as a Reznor, Modine, etc, or similar would be a very good way to get permanent heat in a shop of that size when the time comes. They would work with propane too, but propane is getting expensive, and NG is getting cheaper.

 

[blueovalforever]

What is a mini split pump

 

[theoldwizard1]

What is a mini split pump

It is a small heat pump system where the half of it with the compressor is mounted outside and the other half is mounted in the room to be heated /cooled.

It would be a good solution for your "office" once it is completed,

 

[theoldwizard1]

Well I picked ip 2 of the dual tank top infered 30k btu heaters for now. I have 3 full 100gal tanks.

I like my tank top, but then I only have a 2 car garage and I would like to have a second one.

You'll probably buy a 3rd heater and maybe even a 4th depending on how cold it is outside and how warm you want it inside !


Curious. Did you wrestle those bottles yourself or did the propane company deliver them ?

 

[blueovalforever]

I restled them. Got them for free all full new tanks.

 

[blueovalforever]

Does anyone have a picture of the mini split pumps? Are they expensive to build?