heating the work space.........?

[pete49]

Winter time when the temps sit around13-15 Centigrade I use a wood stove. The oven is handy for baking and a coffee pot sits on top and the workshop is warm and toasty.
Pete

[capnTelescope]

Halogen work lights give you some warmth and you can see what you're doing. They won't heat the shop much, though.

For example: http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200596300_200596300

[GuitarPhotog]

I use two tank-mounted propane radiant heaters, one at each end of the shop. I run a small fan with each to move the warm air around. I have to open the shop door for ventilation, but with both heaters running, I can get the shop (~15 X 35 ft) from 35F to 50F in an hour. Each heater runs about 20 hours on low on a 20 lb propane tank.

<Chas>

[rowerwet]

I wait till global warming happens each spring, in winter I build boats in my 40 degree basement.

[Shadow Catcher]

I have an old Iron Fireman oil burner that used to heat our house, it warms up our garage in a matter of twenty minutes. On job sites I have encountered in the vernacular salamanders. heating oil or kerosene heaters that look something like a jet engine on top of a fuel tank.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/master-kerosene-diesel-forced-air-heater-135-000-btu

[GuitarPhotog]

Those old oil/kerosene salamanders smell terrible! I worked on a construction job one winter where we used those and I hated every day of it.

<Chas>

[MtnDon]

A wood burning stove with a fresh air inlet system and/or one of those hanging natural gas fueled garage/shop heaters with direct venting to the exterior as well as a separate fresh air inlet. I have a huge dislike for any heaters that do not vent the combustion gases outside and don't like cold air being forced to leak inside to replace that used in combustion.

[ibbowhunting]

electric boiler the heats the floor, and a wood pellet stove to bring the garage to a higher temp when working out there.

[Fenlason]

I have a variety of heaters depending on where I am working.. and how cold it is. In my small insulated shop 8'x12' I have a Mr Buddy propane heater. For other areas [in my barn] I have kerosine radiant heaters. I also have one of the kerosine torpedo heaters. I would love a wood heater.. but it would take up too much space in my little shop, and they aren't all that portable for my barn.

[Dale M.]

I have an old Iron Fireman oil burner that used to heat our house, it warms up our garage in a matter of twenty minutes. On job sites I have encountered in the vernacular salamanders. heating oil or kerosene heaters that look something like a jet engine on top of a fuel tank.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/master-kerosene-diesel-forced-air-heater-135-000-btu

Propane version of unit above, and use plenty of VENTILATION, they put out copious amounts of carbon monoxide....



Dale

[Roly Nelson]

What, a heated workshop? Hmm, never thought of it, here in So Calif! Just kidding, I just wait for the sun to come out and do it's thing. Sure glad I don't have to put up with that weather there with Slow. I'm an X-Illinois-an, of about 60 years or so. However, there is always the "dreaded" earthquakes and awful freeway traffic out here. Now, back to building, in the workshop.
Roly, the li'l ol' woody teardrop builder in, you guessed it, So Calif.

[KennethW]

What, a heated workshop? Hmm, never thought of it, here in So Calif! Just kidding, I just wait for the sun to come out and do it's thing. Sure glad I don't have to put up with that weather there with Slow. I'm an X-Illinois-an, of about 60 years or so. However, there is always the "dreaded" earthquakes and awful freeway traffic out here. Now, back to building, in the workshop.
Roly, the li'l ol' woody teardrop builder in, you guessed it, So Calif.

I use solar But in Minnesota I have to use a collector. A box with 2 layers of black window screen, twin wall polycarbonite glazing and a fan with a snap switch to turn it on and off.
Even at -10F I get heat if the sun is out.

[OLDMERC]

My detached garage is heated with an updraft natural gas fired forced air furnace . In Jan. and Feb. it gets down to -20 to -30 Celsius .