At 10:43 AM 11/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>My solution, though not the cheapest, has been to install a through the wall
>heater, which pulls outside air into the combustion chamber, and vents
>burned air to the outside. The heat exchanger and fan move inside air
>across a heated surface and blows it into the garage.
Gary, et al:
Your comments about open flame and humidity are both very well taken. I'd
thought about a formal sort of furnace set up like you describe but that
really isn't practicable where I live. In our rural setting in New Jersey
we don't have a natural gas line to tap into without major $ output. The
house is heated with oil/water baseboard, but that system is about 150
yards from the garage so a tap into THAT is also $$$. If I'm going to
spend that sort of money I'd rather get a new Jag XK8 and to hell with the
garage (!). I'm leaning towards the propane heat for two reasons: its
generally safer to store, being in a metal tank and not being open to the
atmosphere (unlike kerosene), and the heaters themselves are quiet and
probably require less (albeit modest) maintenance than a kerosene heater
(no wick). The down side is that propane is probably more expensive per
calorie, but by the end of a winter that might amount to 10 dollars one way
or the other, for the number of hours I'll be out there.
Will
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