What's the best way to heat my two car garage in the Winter?

Question

I have a two car, attached (under the living room) garage that takes up half of my basement - the other half is heated with forced hot air ducts. I have a project Camaro I am building in it and want to know the best, safest way to heat the garage for the Winter.

Answer 1

electric space heater, mounted  or set on stand 18" above floor, they are thermostat controlled so you can set temp and forget it. The 18" is for safety, gas fumes stay ( or are suppose to ) below that.

Answer 2

I'm going to assume you only really need it to keep heated while you are working on it, in which case a kerosene torpedo heater is the best shop/garage heater money can buy. It takes up hardly any space, heats up quickly, and provides a TON of heat. You can probably find a good unit between $200-$400, they may not have it at a big box store but somewhere like a Grainger ought to have one. We heated up my friend's 400 sqft detached garage to the point of sweating with just one unit, and outside the ground was a solid block of ice. Torpedos make GREAT shop heaters, I know from experience.

Answer 3

Use an infrared heater.

Effective, safe  because theirs no fuel, no noxious fumes, no flame and can be hung so the tripping hazard is removed plus it frees up floor space.  

Very easy to use install and instant heat.

http://www.prosupplyco.com/infraredheate...

Answer 4

Depending on how far north you live- you may can use those oil filled "Delonghi" radiator type electric heaters. They coast about $40 at Walmart. They plug into a regular wall socket, and have 2 heat settings and a thermostat. They are slow to start- but keep up well.

I used one for years in my unheated office in the back of my garage. The office space  was 8x10. One heater was more than enough.

Recently I converted my old office space into 2 dog rooms with 2 outside access doors. I left the heater there. In the winter time- I set the thermostat and forget it.

Edit:.....one other thing. If you put a portable heating device in a garage.....you should not store gasoline there even in an approved container.

.

Answer 5

Depends how air tight your garage is. Extending the air ducts might not work so either an electric block heater or a kerosene burner, though both of those are unsafe in my opinion.