Your Garage Heating System
Picked up a Reznor furnace from a swap meet for $100. It needed a gas valve. Picked one up at Grainger for about $50. I've seen these in warehouses before. It will heat the garage to t-shirt temperature when it's sub-zero outside if you can afford it!
It hangs from ready rod that goes through the ceiling and there are two pieces of angle iron in the attic to spread the load. It's heavy.
Ran a double-wall flue through the garage ceiling and roof. Hole in roof allows clearance all the way around the flue. Then a collar slips over the flue and is properly worked into the shingles to shed rain. Where the flue passes through the ceiling, I used a two-piece collar that guarantees the flue is not in direct contact with anything.
Ran black pipe from my basement through the wall into the garage, up the wall, and across the ceiling. I'm told the flex tube is a no-no as far as code. I should have hard plumbed all the way into the furnace. Oh well. Someday I'll fix it. Oh, I rented a Ridgid pipe die set for the black pipe - only way to fly!
Thermostat is an electronic that goes down to 40 degrees. That way, when I'm not out there, I can keep it just above freezing.
Picked up a Reznor furnace from a swap meet for $100. It needed a gas valve. Picked one up at Grainger for about $50. I've seen these in warehouses before. It will heat the garage to t-shirt temperature when it's sub-zero outside if you can afford it!
It hangs from ready rod that goes through the ceiling and there are two pieces of angle iron in the attic to spread the load. It's heavy.
Ran a double-wall flue through the garage ceiling and roof. Hole in roof allows clearance all the way around the flue. Then a collar slips over the flue and is properly worked into the shingles to shed rain. Where the flue passes through the ceiling, I used a two-piece collar that guarantees the flue is not in direct contact with anything.
Ran black pipe from my basement through the wall into the garage, up the wall, and across the ceiling. I'm told the flex tube is a no-no as far as code. I should have hard plumbed all the way into the furnace. Oh well. Someday I'll fix it. Oh, I rented a Ridgid pipe die set for the black pipe - only way to fly!
Thermostat is an electronic that goes down to 40 degrees. That way, when I'm not out there, I can keep it just above freezing.
