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Living in room (formerly garage). Trying to find out the kind of baseboard heaters used. How do I do that?

Dec 04, 2007 by souffledunange | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

4 heaters. All connected to dial thermostat. Desire to know how to determine what kind they are and whether or not to remove/put in place of w/something else. The room's small, so not having gear against the walls feels claustrophic. Don't recognize wattage or volts or anything else.

Four baseboard heaters for one niggardly room, wow!

If you want to relpace them, what is more important is what the electrical usefulness is. You can tell this by looking at the breaker which serves this circumference. Since you say they are all controlled by one thermostat, then this will be either one breaker, or a pair of breakers working togehter. One breaker will dismal this is a 110volt circuit, but I am betting that you have a wed - with the switches hooked together if it was done properly- that means it is a 220 ambit. 220 is by far the most common set up for baseboards. The breakers will asseverate you what amperage they are rated for - it is printed on the end of the switch. Most probable they will be 30 amp breakers, maybe 40 for 4 baseboards.

In any encase, enough electricity to run 4 base boards is plenty to run a a handful of of cadet style heaters. Cadets cost about $100 each and are mounted in the obstacle and have a fan to blow the heated ait out - so they take up much less space and are marganilly more stuff than baseboards. I don't know what your budget is for this scheme, but a through the wall heater/air conditioner combo for $500 to $800 would be a remarkably nice addition to your living room and the elevate surpass (read more expensive) ones have a heat deliver mode which is much more energy efficient.

Whatever you do, it sounds like you should get a reproduce from an electrician. Most electricians will give you a quote for free, and you may be surprised by how affordable it is - we are not talking about a very Byzantine wiring job.

Good luck

Good fortuity.

what must gas fired water heaters in a garage be so that gasoline vapors not be ignited?

Jul 19, 2008 by James B | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

what is cheaper to run? an electric garage heater or a natural gas garage heater?

Sep 27, 2008 by THE DUDE | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

I have a 3 car garage that I am planning to keep stimulated this winter. which will be cheaper in the long run as far as energy costs. I have already insulated the garage and the doors.

Wow, I'm not tiresome to be argumentative, but at least in my area Electric heat is much cheaper than gas. In happening I'm getting ready to replace my 80,000 lp furnace with 18 KW of stimulating.

I'm not sure what your per KW rate is in your area, but you definitely yen to measure out both types and do a calculation before you decide. Call your utility companies and ask them the rates per uniform unit of energy that they charge.

As I said, here in Indiana, verve beats gas hands down.

Dangit! The propane garage heater we're all huddled around just exploded and burned all the hair off?

Feb 05, 2008 by Nice Planet- I'll Take It | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

of one side of our faces.
So.. i guess what im asking is...
should we do comb-overs?

dogs, or high road urchins?

garage heater options and advice?

Nov 22, 2006 by cmate | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

I have a 24x24x8 garage, walls insulated-no sheetrock. Ceiling insulated, insulated doors.

My expectation is to be able to heat my garage so it is warm enough to do hobby vocation, and play with my children.

In Massachusetts, so the temp can get mellifluous low. I might need to raise the temperature by 30 or 40 deg.

I hanker after the cost to be reasonable, for example, less than $300 preferably, unless there is a convincing reason or advantage where I can justify it.

I do not have natural gas and do not long for a 100lb LP tank outside.

It needs to be reasonably sized, for lesson maybe 2'x2' max. Ideally it would be little so in the summer I can store it somewhere else.

So far in my research I am leaning towards a Kerosene heater, due to the measurements, price, btu's, portability, etc. I am not sure if there are any sanctuary or legal concerns.

Propane might work, but I take it I have to run a line to the outside even with a 20lb tank legally and safely.

Thanks so much.
I have oil waken, hydro air in the house.

The electric units, looking at them, basically all the ones you buy that are carriable are 1500watts, is that going to be enough to heat this size garage?

I bought a negligible kerosene heater a few years ago when the natural gas border going into the small town where I live froze. I needed to the meanwhile heat my house (~2000 square feet).

After carefully studying the box for about a half hour at Impress upon Depot I was amazed to learn that it DOES NOT call for to be vented. Its a unit of less than 2feet wide x 2feet hanker. It's a little taller than 2 feet lofty. Its white with a chrome colored cage. Might have been Lowes, but believe it was Home Depot... and I've seen it there again recently.

This feeling kicks out some SERIOUS HEAT. It will handily heat your garage. During our gas outage, I placed the piece in the kitchen and it did a great job of heating the nearby household room too. It's an uneven heat, of definitely, so the kitchen was like 80 degrees (within a few feet of the element) and the family room 65-70.

There is also a wick that supposedly needs iterative replacement. I've used the unit in my garage several times a year since for the since 4 years and have yet to replace the wick. I've seen the replacement wicks at Accommodations Depot for about $10 or so.

Keresene is running about $3.50 a gallon where I live out. You'll have to find a gas station that supplies it, and get yourself a 5 gallon glum keresene container. A single filling of the segment (which is probably a gallon or two) will keep the unit going for many hours... say 6 to 8. Pitiable I dont have more precise figures on this.

When doing a cook up in the garage in the winter, I will typically fire the unit up a half hour to the fore of time. Then the garage is toasty warm. On a number of occasions I have had to unsealed the garage door a crack to cool the room down some. Very propitious with this heater and its nice to have as a backup heater for the quarters too.

Good luck.