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
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Lovin Locust
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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
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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
You can always heat the water with wood...
SR
Lovin Locust
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Sawyer,
What kind of temperatures would you expect with a ducted furnace with the garage insulated beyond what code says?
What kind of temperatures would you expect with a ducted furnace with the garage insulated beyond what code says?
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what happened to the same post from yesterday?
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firebrick43
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That ain't no garage! That's a barn!
Ironworker
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It's a garage all's you need is a cheap stove.
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.
Oh, any my boiler is fired with natural gas, not wood.
zogger
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Easy enough to put a separate storage shed for any fuel or cans of stuff that could make vapors.
c5rulz
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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.
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I have a separate garage that could store that stuff
What kind of insulation did you put under floor and around footings
Sawyer Rob
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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
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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
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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:
Stove with double wall pipe to ceiling box, where it converts to SS:
SS 6" Chimney just to the left of the peak:
I would like it to
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.
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