KEROSENE HEATER QUESTION

[Lou from Wi.]

I'm Wondering if this heater will do the trick in quick heating the garage until the wood furnance gets up heat? Garage is 32x34 block,No insulation in the core.It was -29o below zero and tonight it is going down again. Gonna start cleaning the O.C 46 crawler tomorrow and hope this unit will do the job. What do you think? My son says "at least we are keeping with the same paint scheme"LOL
Reguards. LOU & VICTOR

 

[Zach Bouchard]

It won't hurt. It will at least take the edge off. Those heaters put out quite a bit of heat so I would give it a shot, it won't make it any colder thats for sure.

 

[GordoSD]

That heater will turn the shop into a suana!

Gordo

 

[Zachary Hoyt]

I've always heard that you should have a little bit of fresh air ventilation with those heaters, but I imagine you knew that anyway.
Zach

 

[Ecnerwal]

Well, making some wild assumptions (when you say no insulation in the core, you mean no insulation period; also no insulation in the ceiling, and a wall height of 10 feet, and ignoring heat loss to floor) I get about 169,000 btu/hr (assuming and effective R-value of 1) to keep your shop at 68 while it's -29 out - assuming no ventilation, which will make it rather wet (so things want to rust) and might interfere with living, too. You'll want to open some windows, at least, though the cold would make you think otherwise.

It will make a dent. Be careful. Use a CO detector. Fire up that wood furnace - vented heaters are ever so much nicer than unvented ones, and you can close the windows.

 

[Lou from Wi.]

There is no insulation in the walls(8ft) but 1" poly in the ceiling. We just want it to get it comfortable in there,(around 60-70) then the wood furnace should be able to keep up.

 

[Ecnerwal]

Should work fine that way, and the insulation in the ceiling (about R5) improves the situation quite a bit over my assumption.

 

[MasseyTodd]

A 110,000 BTU Reddi-Heater heats my 30'x32' uninsulated garage, only ceiling insulation in about 20 minutes. This should be pleanty.

 

[kyplowboy]

We have a 25' X 25' building at work that the city put up with out any plans to heat. To keep the pipes from freezing we used a 175,000 btu heater like that one for two winters. We had to keep it set on the lowest notch to keep from breaking a sweat when we went in there. While it has not gotten down to -20ish in a while it was down in the single numbers a few times and it worked fine.

And for the record I do still work for the city and our engineers did decide to build a building 25 X 25 to put water treatment equipment in and they did not see a need to budget for a heater. The piece of equipment that it was built for has a 6'X10' footprint but the book that came with it said it needed at least 25'X25' for support equipment and supplies. They being the money minded type didn't want to waste money by building it any bigger than they had to.

Dave

 

[Anonymous-0]

The heater probably has a thermostat. It should cook you out but make sure to have a door opened a bit for fresh air intake. Dave