mobile home heat unit

[earthmover]

got a chance to get a unit out of a older home before they tear it apart...whats the thoughts of using this unit in my shop????my shop is about 1025sq ft. and would like to keep it warm doing the winter mths.. in north Carolina and I plan to do the insulation in the walls soon...outside is 1/2osb and siding inside will be insulation and 1/2 osb or sheet rock..

 

[crewchief888]

if it works, why not?

at the last dealership i worked at, our rebuild room was 25x65 /16ft ceilings.
we installed a 4ton mobile home hvac unit, 6" of insulation 1/2"OSB walls.

you could either hang meat in there in the summer, or cook it during the winter.

 

[larry_g]

A bit more information on the heater would be nice, like the size of the building it comes out of, the BTU's delivered, forced air and such. Mobil homes come from a few hundred square feet to a few thousand feet.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[kpilot]

I had a oil fired unit from a mobile home that was a downdraft model. Had to make my own duct to get it to work in my 15x30 woodshop. Used it for about 15 yrs till it died. Worked great in SE. Pa. winters.

kpilot

 

[earthmover]

ill check on the btu but its a forced air un it and the house is 60' long 12 wide.. the unit works great had it on the other day lol..I plan to take the panel box out of it as well since I need a new 1 in my new shop ..it has been updated to a 200 amp unit with the ge breakers.....my shop shouldn't be bad to heat and cool I think ..last week on a 80 deg. day it was 105 in the shop before I open the doors and windows...that's with out insulation on the inside....now I need to update the ac got a 6000btu from a friend and don't think its going to keep up at all....lol