Best heater for garage

[Redneck4Life]

I'm going old school back to 2006 when I got outta service. When I  come home all I did was hang out in my family's garage and drink and BBQ. Called isolation Even on occasion passing out and sleeping out there. It was small we headed with a space heater electric. I have a 24x24 2 car garage un insulated.Radio soon to get sirius xm and want to put a TV out there. I've got a wood stove but haven't hooked it up was thinking bout going out a windows with bistiss pipe up over facia and into air. Also been looking into salamanders or propane wall moniters. My garage is only wire for 110 with old fuses. My plan is to hang out there this winter maybe putter. Maybe just relax enjoying alone time chilling and drinking. I'm looking to stay cheap cuz I'm a cheapskate lol. I've heated it b4 with a Mr buddyheater while cutting deer just to keep hands from freezing. Any information would be greatly appreciated. I need to get back to the old me. Where I was either working or in garage or woods. Woods are outta question. Garage is next best place.

[Fab]

Wood stove 

[Buckmaster7600]

Look on Amazon for a diesel heater. It’s what I hunt my pop ice shanty with and they’re awesome and very efficient! I don’t know how they’ll work in that big of a space but it will work better than a buddy heater.

[mowin]

Hot air oil furnace.  Simple exhaust and you can run it off a 15g drum.  Almost instant heat and inexpensive to find used. 

[Moog5050]

Ok I might be off here but my garage has 2 rooms above it and is fully insulated.   You could easily heat it to the point of 60s with a decent space heater.  Maybe insulation is key.  But obviously a serious oil burning heater will kick butt. 

[Rob-c]

First thing i would  do is insulate  it , if you don't  you'll be wasting and using way more then necessary of  wood / propane or what ever you use . Just remember if you use the wood stove and your insurance  finds out your rates will go up  or they may not cover you . 

Edited January 1 by Rob-c

[mowin]

1 minute ago, Moog5050 said:

Ok I might be off here but my garage has 2 rooms above it and is fully insulated.   You could easily heat it to the point of 60s with a decent space heater.  Maybe insulation is key.  But obviously a serious oil burning heater will kick butt. 

My shop is on the bigger side. 35x48 with two apartments above (vacant).  Shop is insulated with 8" Fiberglass walls and ceiling.  I had a 60K BTU hot air oil furnace that would keep it comfortable while I was working in there.  I'm the middle of swapping out to a 80k propane furnace.  I do not keep it heated. It's only turned on when needed, so sometimes it's going from 20° to 50° in a hr or so, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's cold, lol. 

[Redneck4Life]

I got a woodstove I was supposed to put in there but never got too after I moved in. $1200 I got it for 450. Was supposed to sell it but still there after 10 years here. Yes home insurance is crazy money. Sure they got me for pool I installed. Now it's never been heated b4 once I start heating it. Will I have to heat steady if I put a TV out there? Or will it be fine to heat when I need the heat only when I'm there. I'm going to look into everything you guys have told me.

[mowin]

28 minutes ago, Redneck4Life said:

I got a woodstove I was supposed to put in there but never got too after I moved in. $1200 I got it for 450. Was supposed to sell it but still there after 10 years here. Yes home insurance is crazy money. Sure they got me for pool I installed. Now it's never been heated b4 once I start heating it. Will I have to heat steady if I put a TV out there? Or will it be fine to heat when I need the heat only when I'm there. I'm going to look into everything you guys have told me.

If insurance is a factor, ditch the wood stove. 

[mowin]

44 minutes ago, Redneck4Life said:

I got a woodstove I was supposed to put in there but never got too after I moved in. $1200 I got it for 450. Was supposed to sell it but still there after 10 years here. Yes home insurance is crazy money. Sure they got me for pool I installed. Now it's never been heated b4 once I start heating it. Will I have to heat steady if I put a TV out there? Or will it be fine to heat when I need the heat only when I'm there. I'm going to look into everything you guys have told me.

My cousin butcher shop is not heated 24-7.  TV has lasted 6+ yrs, and is a cheap Visio.  

[Wolc123]

I use a combination of a 20 lb propane bottle mounted heater and a 120 volt electric infrared heater that draws about 15 amps out in the 12 x 20 ft woodshop inside my 36 x 50 ft pole barn.    Only the outside wall is insulated.  The 7-1/2 ft wood shop ceiling is covered with 1” of chestnut  boards, topped with 5/8” of OSB.  The inside walls are sheated with 1” thick “board and batten” chestnut.  
 

The wood shop is not sealed up real tight, which probably wouldn’t be too safe, with propane as the primary fuel source.  
 

I only heat it when I’m out there and only use the propane to heat it up quick or when it’s below about 20 deg F outside.   

Those little propane heaters are quick and hot enough to melt lead for making sinkers and jigheads.  They will run on low, medium, and high settings.  I only started using it to melt lead after the electric coil took a crap in my hot pot 2 or 3 years ago.  

I moved the infrared heater temporarily out to my “splitter shed blind” in the back of the barn for the Holiday ML season.  It will go back in the woodshop later today when that’s over.  

I don’t like the idea of a wood stove out there because it seems like it would be a fire hazard, with all the sawdust, gasoline, diesel fuel, motor oil and other easily ignited stuff around.  It’s nice to know that all of the heaters are off when I’m not out there.  

I only run the beer fridge out there in the warmer months.  
 

I had one of those  larger, round, convection type kerosene heaters out there prior, but that was a stinky thing that needed regular wick maintenance and getting kerosene was always expensive and a pain in the behind.  
 

The propane and electric heaters never need any maintenance and are always ready to go.  I’ve usually got (5) propane bottles around, counting the (2) in the truck camper, which is stored in the pole barn over the winter.  

Edited January 1 by Wolc123

[Dogman]

Hot-Dawg by Modine my be the way to go for you 

[2BuckBizCT]

10 hours ago, mowin said:

My cousin butcher shop is not heated 24-7.  TV has lasted 6+ yrs, and is a cheap Visio.  

I have a cheap TLC TV outside year round. I throw a cheap black cover over it when not in use. It keeps ticking year after year. Even has a sound bar on it. Meanwhile I have one of those suncast expensive outdoor TV’s in my garage. No need for it IMO

[mowin]

2 hours ago, Dogman said:

Hot-Dawg by Modine my be the way to go for you 

Nice heaters, but not inexpensive.