adding heat to the garage?

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Is your hot water heater in your garage? If so you can hang the below in your garage, pipe it up with a small water pump and you are good to go! Just run the return line back to the water line going into the water heater.

Hadn't seen these, will investigate. Thanks for the post.
 

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Is your hot water heater in your garage? If so you can hang the below in your garage, pipe it up with a small water pump and you are good to go! Just run the return line back to the water line going into the water heater.

I would have liked to have done this in our garage but we have a tankless water heater.
 

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If your garage door isn’t already insulated, I would start with insulating it. I bought 1” blue foam board and cut it to where i had to bow it to pop it into the panels on the door. Lots of heat was being lost through that door. Then I would recommend a small propane heater such as a Mr buddy heater to warm it up while you are out there. I currently have a 7kw electric resistance heater in my shop. I was around $150 to buy, and was easy to install. I would not recommend it for a shop that is not well insulated, it can be expensive to run. I am actually going to upgrade to a mini split heat pump.
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My dad has a dyno-glo heater in the garage. I was over there Thursday and it was staying 64 degrees in there when the windchill was -27. Garage is roughly 14x16 with 8ft ceilings. I believe it was on its lowest setting maybe a little above.
 

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These mini-splits....intriguing.
I've been kinda looking into some sort of HVAC to keep the reloading room somewhat normalized and that may be the ticket? It's about 150sqft so by the numbers a smaller 9000btu unit should do the trick. I'm not looking to keep it house comfortable but mostly level out temp swings and prevent rust.
 

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