Posted by ScottyHOMEy on October 02, 2009 at 08:27:02 from (70.105.224.197):
In Reply to: Heaters posted by Dave H (MI) on October 02, 2009 at 07:42:46:
I've got a little 30,000BTU propane salamander type heater that works pretty well. It'll run 15 hours or better on a 20-lb tank of propane (at local prices that's about $0.85 per hour plus whatever electricity the fan uses).
Like the use it sounds like you would put one to, I generally run two or three hours at most. It's nowhere near big enough to heat my entire two-car garage, but it's plenty to warm up the quarter or so of the area that I might typically be working in. That also helps disperse the fumes over the whole area. Where CO is about the same weight as free air, I'll usually raise one of the roll-ups a few inches and crack a window at the end opposite just to keep a little fresh air cross ventilation going. I've worked around it for as long as five or six hours that way with no ill effects.
I've found it more effective for heating a little larger area than a convection/ceramic type heater, making things more comfortable whether I'm just puttering, or actually working on something. The only gripe I have with intermittent heating is the condensation that will form on the tools if it's quite cold out. My way around that is to organize whatever I'm doing so that I'm not warming up the area with the tool chests so much. It means a little extra walking (What? 10 feet?) for the tool I forgot to get out but not a problem. The tools I use on a job are going to get cleaned up and wiped down anyway.
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