Garage heater.. propane or kerosene

[Evadman]

Actually, I saw a woodburning stove @ menards a few weeks ago for $109 (iirc) I thought it was the wierdest thing because no one within 200 miles needs a wood stove

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Actually, I saw a woodburning stove @ menards a few weeks ago for $109 (iirc) I thought it was the wierdest thing because no one within 200 miles needs a wood stove

Wow.
I saw some really chintzy looking ones @ lowes recently, and they were still in the $300 to $400 range.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: Evadman
Actually, I saw a woodburning stove @ menards a few weeks ago for $109 (iirc) I thought it was the wierdest thing because no one within 200 miles needs a wood stove

Wow.
I saw some really chintzy looking ones @ lowes recently, and they were still in the $300 to $400 range.

Out where I live I'm sure that I could find a used one just by canvassing some of the people I know. One or two of them probably either have one in a barn that just needs a little work, or know someone who has one in a barn somewhere. As for double and triple wall pipe and stuff like that, shoot, we'd just weld up what we needed from whatever was laying around, or if I got lazy, I'd get some scraps from a friend who does HVAC. It never ceases to amaze me how different that is from the "normal" world.

ZV

 

[amdskip]

My uncle uses one of those heaters that burns used oil in his shop (60x100 shop). He says it works great and they just burn all the oil out of their diggers, trucks, etc.

In our garage, it's insulated and we have a natural gas furnace hanging in the corner, works great. The next garage we build will have a heated floor too.

Edit: Why not spend the money and insulate it?

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: Evadman
Actually, I saw a woodburning stove @ menards a few weeks ago for $109 (iirc) I thought it was the wierdest thing because no one within 200 miles needs a wood stove

Wow.
I saw some really chintzy looking ones @ lowes recently, and they were still in the $300 to $400 range.

I should probably say they were on clearance. But they were thick cast iron with what felt like a 40lb door over the furnace part (that is what it's called right?) Looked pretty good to me, but it was the 1st wood stove I had ver seen in real life.

As for double and triple wall pipe and stuff like that, shoot, we'd just weld up what we needed from whatever was laying around, or if I got lazy, I'd get some scraps from a friend who does HVAC. It never ceases to amaze me how different that is from the "normal" world.

Wow, you could make lots of money up here doing that for an HVAC guy.

 

[BooneRebel]

I use a pot-belly Buckstove. It's the wrong time of year to be buying anything heat-related, but if you wait until spring you can pick up a used cast iron stove pretty cheap. I've also seen the fan-assisted wood/coal stoves new at Lowes/HomeDepot marked down pretty cheap, listed at $300 now you could easily pick it up for $100 or less once it warms up.

I'd forgotten about the garage being attached to the house, code restrictions are going to up the cost of the stovepipe considerably. But even then, if you can hold off until spring it's possible to get this stuff pretty cheaply. I remember seeing an insulated pipe kit for a pellet stove (3"?) marked down to $5 or so from the original $200+ it had been in the winter time at Lowes last summer.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: Evadman
Actually, I saw a woodburning stove @ menards a few weeks ago for $109 (iirc) I thought it was the wierdest thing because no one within 200 miles needs a wood stove

Wow.
I saw some really chintzy looking ones @ lowes recently, and they were still in the $300 to $400 range.

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As for double and triple wall pipe and stuff like that, shoot, we'd just weld up what we needed from whatever was laying around, or if I got lazy, I'd get some scraps from a friend who does HVAC. It never ceases to amaze me how different that is from the "normal" world.

ZV

Been there, done that. But in most areas subject to building codes, area, metal chimney components have to be UL certified.