Kerosene (sp?) heater for garage?

[mtkawboy]

One problem with propane if gets super cold where you are is it freezes up and wont flow. It does it in MT when it gets down to 20 below. I have an electric forced air unit that hangs from the ceiling. It takes a while to heat it up in there but it blows right where I work. No matter how cold it is it will get it up to 50. I tried a Kerosun heater but it gives me a headache. I need to have the house CNG plumbed out there and put a small furnace in but Im too cheap for as much as I use it in the winter. A lot of guys out here use the wood burning barrels and they work super. They make me nervous, I want something that I know is off and the bottom isnt going to burn out of.

 

[302fix]

My Kero works great in the garage but the fumes do get to me after a while. I plan on tapping into the gas line for my furnace and putting a permanent heating unit in someday.

 

[MI-Bronco]

My Kero works great in the garage but the fumes do get to me after a while. I plan on tapping into the gas line for my furnace and putting a permanent heating unit in someday.

If I wasn't spending all my $ on the truck I would go this route. Gas line to a hanging gas unit.

Currently it's propane for me. I've even painted at 10 degrees with that little torpedo heater. There have been other post on this and the best lower cost option is a radiant (non fan - noisy) propane heater.

 

[zeusakira]

I put in a used mobile home oil furnace for 200$ I draw fresh air in from a four inch pipe for the combustion chamber and built a stand four foot high to put the furnace on. I firgure up higher is good for those low vapors.

 

[Broncobowsher]

Raising the heater off the floor is a good idea. Since the heater is a source of ignition, and most flamable vapors are heavier then air (gasoline and propane come to mind). Seperating them would be a good idea. All the new homes around here have elevated water heaters for this reason.