Help with Heater Placement?

[Injected54]

Hi, I've searched and found most of the info I needed and never posted before but I'm stuck on this one. I've been looking for an electric heater for a 2 car garage for awhile and decided ordered one a few hours ago. Northern tool has the ProFusion Heat Ceiling-Mount Shop Heater — 25,590 BTU, 240 Volts on sale for $249.99 and I found a $20.00 off coupon code which covered shipping ($18). It's this one here.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200631888_200631888


I saw a post awhile back about the best placement for a heater, for the best room air circulation, I searched and can't find it. It had the forced air heater up on the wall pointed at the garage door "I think". In a way that it would then hit the opposite wall of the heater. Then it would hit the wall opposite of the garage door. Then it would hit the wall where the heater is and circulate in a big circle bouncing off of the walls moving the warm air in a circular motion. It said something about pointing it at the door because it was the coldest spot and if heated first it would stay warm and hold the heat in better or something like that. I don't know anything about this but it seemed logical.

This is my first time putting in a heater and I would like to do it right the first time and not have to do it again. Is this really the best placement for an electric heater, and to have it bouncing off the walls like this? Is there a better place for it that would work better or facing it a certain way or at a certain wall? I have someone coming in to run the electric line tomorrow and want to put it in the best spot but not sure where to have him run the line to.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Thanks

 

[Injected54]

Anyone? 159 views and no one has any idea about the best place to put a heater, or if it even matters?

 

[Scott V]

This place moves pretty fast so some topics disappear withing a day. Search is your friend. There is another thread on page 2 asking the same thing.

You want the heated air to circulate back to the heater:

 

[RustnGrease]

I have a similar heater in a similar sized garage. Mounted it between the garage doors in the back, works pretty good. Warms the air up from the coldest part of the shop and sends it to the front. My only complaints is that it dries the air out alot and it's pricey to run, but it is an older and less efficient unit.

 

[pseudorealityx]

Heat only lowers the relative humidity. It does not remove moisture from the air.

 

[dave67fd]

Your heater should direct the warm air to the coolest entry point/s. For example, if you have overhead door/s it should blow air in that direction. Same reason you see registers and baseboards along windows. If it was mounted on the overhead door wall it would also be apt to "draw in" more cool air.

 

[RustnGrease]

I only mounted the heater where it is because thats where i had to, due to space constraints at the time.It worked for me, but your results may vary.

 

[hagfan72]

Probably is why the majority of shops have it in the corner

 

[James-W]

Yeah, mount it in one corner and blow the warm air down and toward the opposite corner. As far as I know that it the most common way of doing it.

 

[Injected54]

Thanks for the info everyone, the heater showed up yesterday. Going to get a QO box in the garage and get everything hooked up next week. I'll make sure to get the line ran to a corner where the heater can be pointed towards the garage doors.

 

[keitho64]

Did you get this installed yet? I have been looking at that one and the smaller 17K BTU unit. My garage is about 28X24, two walls are interior walls on my home, all walls are insulated and drywall and the ceiling is insulated. My gargage door is a 2" insulated door.

Thanks

Keith

 

[Injected54]

Yes, I got it installed. This is my first garage heater and it seems to work good. It kicks on and off when needed and keeps it around 50 - 60 degrees. My garage is only attached to the house on one side and is uninsulated. I'm trying to find a way that I can hook up a regular or programmable thermostat on the wall that I can use though. A friend hooked it up for me and he hooked up a regular 240 volt one, this one...

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Fahrenheat-Non-Programmable-Wall-Mount-Thermostat-MD26R/202267265

I'd like to bypass the internal thermostat on the unit and hook it up directly to the wall thermostat though. The unit is up in the rafters out of reach so I can't just reach up and turn it up or down easily. He didn't know how to do it so I'm still trying to figure that one out. I'm using this one as more of a shut on shut off switch till we figure it out. I'd like to hook up a programmable thermostat so it will set it to 40 degrees at night automatically in case I forget to turn it down and I can turn it up if needed when working in the garage.

The unit itself seems to work great. I haven't had any problems at all. I'd just like to figure out the internal thermostat bypass to so I can use a programmable wall thermostat. The next step is to insulate the garage. When it's insulated I think it will keep it as warm as I want in the garage with no problems at all.

Dave