garage heating

C130 Chief said
Check around for used copper hot water baseboards as well. A regular domestic hot water heater can heat a fair sized run. A system with used everything can be built pretty cheap. A system with free everything can be a whole lot cheaper. A recycled hot air furnace will heat a shop pretty well and the blower only can be used as a fan in the summer. Heck, you could add a/c as well. Look for a house that is about to get torn down and see if you can salvage the heating system, scrap what you dont need.

maybe that would be an option a while back, but with todays cost of copper, you can bet that anything with copper in it is the first thing spirited off a job site.
the rats here are swiping copper gutters, plumbing, even street light wiring, leaving more than a mile of freeway unlit, just because copper is so high right now.