new garage heating ideas

[blueoak]

Building new garage and need some ideas for heat. Garage is going to be 36x48, it will have insulated garage doors and walls and ceiling will be well insulated. I would prefer it to be wood heat but any ideas would be appreciated. thanks

 

[Lovin Locust]

Would a wood furnace work or a multi-fuel furnace work in this situation? Kuuma VF-100 or another furnace might work in this situation.. Budget? Heating needs? like how hot are wanting to keep the garage? Just a few questions

 

[Sawyer Rob]

If you want the most comfortable and IMO best, put PEX tubing in the floor, and run hot water through it...

You can always heat the water with wood...

SR

 

[Lovin Locust]

Sawyer,

What kind of temperatures would you expect with a ducted furnace with the garage insulated beyond what code says?

 

[nathon918]

Building new garage and need some ideas for heat. Garage is going to be 36x48, it will have insulated garage doors and walls and ceiling will be well insulated. I would prefer it to be wood heat but any ideas would be appreciated. thanks

what happened to the same post from yesterday?

 

[Lovin Locust]

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[firebrick43]

That ain't no garage! That's a barn!

 

[Ironworker]

It's a garage all's you need is a cheap stove.

 

[kodiak]

I have in-floor heat in my garage/shop. It's nice but when it' time to crank up the temp it is very slow to respond as in about 1° per hour. I just leave it set around 52° all winter.

Oh, any my boiler is fired with natural gas, not wood.

 

[pweber]

I've always been spooked off the idea of putting a wood stove in my garage. All those gas cans in there seem like an accident waiting to happen.

 

[zogger]

I've always been spooked off the idea of putting a wood stove in my garage. All those gas cans in there seem like an accident waiting to happen.

Easy enough to put a separate storage shed for any fuel or cans of stuff that could make vapors.

 

[c5rulz]

My Insurance Co. asked, "Are there any combustibles in the garage with the wood stove? Well just about everything in there has either gas or diesel in them. I took the wood stove out and have a 75,000BTU gas furnace. They were OK with the stove in the house.

 

[blueoak]

what happened to the same post from yesterday?

Site kicked me off sorry, made new name

 

[blueoak]

I've always been spooked off the idea of putting a wood stove in my garage. All those gas cans in there seem like an accident waiting to happen.

I have a separate garage that could store that stuff

 

[blueoak]

I had my heart set on infloor heat from the start but as I thought about it and ran some numbers the thought of spending that money and having something go bad during install or after is gut wrenching.

 

[blueoak]

I have in-floor heat in my garage/shop. It's nice but when it' time to crank up the temp it is very slow to respond as in about 1° per hour. I just leave it set around 52° all winter.

Oh, any my boiler is fired with natural gas, not wood.

What kind of insulation did you put under floor and around footings

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I had my heart set on infloor heat from the start but as I thought about it and ran some numbers the thought of spending that money and having something go bad during install or after is gut wrenching.

Unless you have someone doing a halfazz install, this is a common install these days and they DO know how to do it right... Just don't hire some fly by night company...

SR

 

[Poston5]

Whatever you do, don't use floor heat. Takes to long to warm up and no reason to waste the energy to heat something 24/7 if you don't need to. Get a hanging heater that is forced air and put a hx in it with a boiler.

 

[Kingfisher30]

I have a cumberland gap stove in my shop/barn/garage/man cave, which is built similar to what you are planning with respect to insulation. Mine is a bit smaller at 24x42 but my stove doesn't struggle at all to heat the space into the upper 70s in single digit conditions. I keep my gas cans in a shed 100+feet away.

Stove with double wall pipe to ceiling box, where it converts to SS:

SS 6" Chimney just to the left of the peak:

 

[blueoak]

I would like it to

I have a cumberland gap stove in my shop/barn/garage/man cave, which is built similar to what you are planning with respect to insulation. Mine is a bit smaller at 24x42 but my stove doesn't struggle at all to heat the space into the upper 70s in single digit conditions. I keep my gas cans in a shed 100+feet away.

Stove with double wall pipe to ceiling box, where it converts to SS:View attachment 393253

SS 6" Chimney just to the left of the peak:
View attachment 393254

Nice garage,how much wood do use through out a eight hour day to keep it up to temp. Do you have any problems with it getting to hot.