Topic: heating your shop etc

[74cb750]

How do you all heat your shop?
Do you heat it at all?

My wife bought me a propane heater for Chistmas, which I hope to use this year. This will mean I will have to put up some sort of ceiling, as currently it is open rafters above.
Can't use a woodstove as trees overhang the garage, plus there are way too many bikes in here.
peace,
michel

All the wood I use has been free. How much are you all paying for wood this year?

[tramp]

just had a polebarn built
will heat with wood
cost about $50 a face cord

[boatsdickson]

Dont know any specs.... but it'll run you out. 20 x 30 garage. Disorganized as hell.....

[upperlake04]

  I use a small firebrick lined wood heater in a 12' x 24'  2"x4" framed, fibreglass insulated shop. It burns about 2 cords of jack pine each Canadian prairie winter, each cord is around $75,  delivered in 10' lengths. This amount of wood heats the shop only during the day.

[bradweingartner]

I have a natural gas furnace bolted to the wall. With a fully insulated 24x24 garage the impact on my total gas bill is negligible unless I keep it toasty for several weeks straight. In light of the hikes in natural gas though I'm looking into a wood stove to supplement that in the garage and in the house.

[bwaller]

In floor radiant heat, toasty warm all winter long.

Have an outdoor furnace and a couple hundred acres of hardwood forest.

Total cost=  periodic badbackitis and some chainsaw gas!

[Jonesy]

Regular natural gas furnace, 2 feet above the floor per code.

[medic09]

We just have a small two car garage attached to the house.  I have two oil-filled electric radiators like one would buy at Sam's Club.  I turn them on a while before going out there.  I wear a fireman's workshirt (sweatshirt), and I'm good.  My portable worklights create some heat, too.

We've had a long thread on here about heating workshops.  If you search, you may find some more ideas from the folks with serious shops.