Thermostat location, where?

[long handles]

Where should you install your thermostat on a detached garage?

Example:

28 x 30 x 12.5'

18 x 11 O/H Door on one of the 28' walls.

3' entry door, two 24 x 24 windows on one of the 30' walls (also the location of the floor radiant stubs, water heater, etc........

The other two walls have no openings.

Thanks,

Ken

 

[dave67fd]

If you have an interior wall (wall from stairway, closet etc..) that would be the priority and away from direct line heat. If only 4 walls, mount on the wall without windows and hopefully out of direct line of heater as well.

I would assume garage is fully insulated. If not you will have little control.

 

[930dreamer]

My heater is on the SE corner, the thermostat is on the East wall. It's not in the direct path of the heater when it's operational.

 

[phbsales]

Here's an idea that's just crazy enough to work.........

Mount the thermostat INSIDE THE HOUSE and run a remote sensor to a corner of the garage where the 2 bare walls meet.

 

[TWX]

I moved my thermostat from the corner near the air handler (HVAC system) to where I could actually reach it to control it. Certainly its accuracy is probably affected by this, but since I keep the shop around 88° when not in use in the summer, and manually cool it to 80° when I'm in there it makes more sense to have it where I've put it.

In a house, which usually is occupied a lot more than a workshop, it probably makes sense to try to place it optimally. In a shop though, place it for convenience, so long as it will still function at all.

 

[DoyleDee]

Generally they are installed where airflow is returning to the hvac unit. You need air to flow accross it then into the hvac system- this is the way we always installed--it is within a few feet of your return grill.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

If this is a hanging heater, put it right under the heater, as noted above, the return air being sucked in the back of the unit will flow over the thermostat. Hang it on a piece of conduit and box mounted to the heater, and hanging from it. If a built in unit, attached garage, put it on an inside wall if possible, the wall won't be so cold as to affect the thermostat.

phbsales..... Not sure why one would want to mount a thermostat in the house, nor what kind of thermostat you could find that has a remote sensor. Every thermostat I've seen has the temp sensing right in the unit, no way to remote it. If you could find one with a remote sensor, it would probably cost a bundle, way more than its worth.

Charles

 

[HVAC Phil]

If this is a hanging heater, put it right under the heater, as noted above, the return air being sucked in the back of the unit will flow over the thermostat. Hang it on a piece of conduit and box mounted to the heater, and hanging from it. If a built in unit, attached garage, put it on an inside wall if possible, the wall won't be so cold as to affect the thermostat.

phbsales..... Not sure why one would want to mount a thermostat in the house, nor what kind of thermostat you could find that has a remote sensor. Every thermostat I've seen has the temp sensing right in the unit, no way to remote it. If you could find one with a remote sensor, it would probably cost a bundle, way more than its worth.

Charles

Remote sensor stats don't cost that much. I use these in my home to eliminate others from messing with stat. I have just a small wall sensor mounted in the room, stat is in my office.

 

[long handles]

Guys, detached garage, floor radiant heat.

 

[jmlcolorado]

Guys, detached garage, floor radiant heat.

Wow! That was a quick lack of focus

I would put it on the a wall that doesn't have any doors or windows. Radiant heat doesn't have a "direct path" where heat travels except up. 5' off the floor would be best in my opinion. Too close to the floor it'll feel more heat as would above close to the ceiling. Being that your ceilings are so high, it'll take some time to heat it all up anyways.
But thats just my opinion.