I have an 1100 Square Foot Uninsulated Garage, and a 30K Kerosene Torpedo Heater. How can I give it a fighting chance to warm up the space?
>>2965653Turn it on a while before you want to work in there and have it blasting towards you while you work. It will take the chill off which is all that really matters unless you are doing something you really need up to temp like painting. What have your outside temps been? What is your target inside temp? We have had an unusually warm winter so far and I am extremely thankful for that because I have been able to get a few things done that would have been impossible in the miserable cold.
>>2965653Put in insulation numbnuts.
>>2965653I've been in the single digits and teens for the past few weeks. Need to work on my truck. I'd like to hit 40. 50 is a pipe dream.
>>296566440 will have you sweating with a hoodie on if you're doing anything even remotely physical...Just fire the ol torpedo up and see what she does. I use mine in a 75'x50' space with 14' walls and it does keep the chill off.
>>2965668I have 9ft ceilings, and my heater is basically a loud hand warmer when I run it. 6 feet away, you don't feel the heat. I do have some of those mini fans that screw into sockets to keep heat from collecting in the rafters.
>>2965670>40 will have you sweating with a hoodie on if you're doing anything even remotely physical...Now I will have to look at the BTU rating on my torpedo heater...
>>2965672You should ask him what his waistline is, also his race.
insulate the foundation as best you can, increase drainage. dig trench stuff in insulate board, dig wrap around cement border put insulate board under that before pouring concrete. the cold is going to get in the changing of materials slows it down, temps stabilize the deeper you get so an L shaped thermal barrier and some gravel will slow it down from soil and water.
>>2965677>You should ask him what his waistline is, also his race.What does that have to do with anything?You should probably step out of the thread if you've never worked in the cold in your life. Coming from zero degree weather into a shop that is heated to 40 degrees is t-shirt time.
goddamn im glad i dont livein snownigger landits 65 and pouring rain here and like 85 in the house and im sweating my balls of sitting around in my underwear but the shop is fucking gross. water dripping off of everything. you can watch bright steel rust in front of your eyes so everything has to get firehosed with wd40 to not become rusty shit
>>2965787>its 65 and pouring rain here and like 85 in the house and im sweating my balls of sitting around in my underwear>fireplace blazingWhy though? Also where I live it routinely gets to over 100 degrees in the summertime and we've had some -30 cold too... Few years back we had -20 for two weeks during the winter. That wasn't fun at all. But it's amazing how much your body will adjust to the different temperatures. Coming out of summer the first day that falls below 50 degrees and you're freezing your ass off, but once you get used to it it's not that bad. Hell after a couple weeks of -20 degree weather, once it warms up to the mid 30's you're running around in a t-shirt because it feels that damn warm. Then when springtime rolls around and it gets up to 85-90 you're about to die again...
