Recommend a heater...

[quick86]

So I close on my house in the next week..... And the garage is a basement style as in it's half underground and half above ground, and below a portion of the house. It's completely insulated. The drywall is up, but not finished. It needs mudded, sanded, and painted...


I am looking to finish the drywall in the coming weeks and am looking for a good heater I can use to bring the garage up to a warmer temp so that when I do mud the drywall it's a bit warmer...


It's a 2 1/2 car garage - I am missing the exact measurements, but it's approx. 480sq ft if I remember correctly...



I was looking at the propane tank top heaters, but am unsure if I want to deal with any sort of noxious odor it might make... Any suggestions?

 

[930dreamer]

I'd leave a door or window a jar and go from there. I use a kerosene torpedo heater in the shop that way, no issues. A fan will help move the air around. Post some pics.

 

[quick86]

I'd leave a door or window a jar and go from there. I use a kerosene torpedo heater in the shop that way, no issues. A fan will help move the air around. Post some pics.

Something like this should be able to warm it up, no?

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

 

[930dreamer]

That will work.

 

[sixball]

I swear by my radiant style torpedo but thats in an unatached garage. The fumes/smell don't bother me at all, but I vent it well. I've used the tank tops as well, and they heat, but it takes more time to reach a good temp when it's cold out. The fumes/smell with the tank tops are less noticable than a torpedo style though.

If I had to heat a garage thats attached to the house, I'd go with electric. Especially in your case being in the basement. The fumes are going to rise into the house if you run a torpedo, or a tank top.

Do you have gas or electric in your house? If you have gas and there is a vent in the garage, you could use that to dump allittle heat into the garage, then use the electic to take it the rest of the way.

Sixball

 

[MikeLawrence]

It being "half basement" is basically an ideal case. If you're looking temporary while you mud two ~$15 space heaters would do the trick (heck, maybe even just one).

You'll have no reason to open it up and lose all your heat if you're just in there doing wall work and if you don't have to vent (like with gas) you aren't going to have much heat loss at all.

Just an opinion,
Michael Lawrence, LISSCO
www.thruwalls.com

Edit: It occured to me that maybe the reason you went straight to the gas idea was because you only have a single circuit for the garage. For temporary you could run an extension cord from an outlet on a different breaker obviously but if you wanted to have a slightly more permanent solution if you ran a 220 out there you could power a 3.6kw and be set for life.

Also, just throwing this out there if the garage has a window it's likely high with a good view of the weeds (the nature of half-unders). It might be a good candidate for a RAC-style heat pump. A lot more on the front end but if you're going to be out there a lot it could be more economical on the back end (you'd have to run a cost-benefit analysis I suppose) and provide some cooling come summer.