The shop was at 30* when I walked in,,Fired up the 2 burner head on the propane tank & went to welding & brazing on the bracket to mount the propane tank on the generator. I cant recommend welding in a close shop, at all.. My chest is not comfortable at all, & I walkewd out for air & even opened doors & turned on the fan once, BUT, the heater was able to bring the temp from 30 to 50 & I never set it above the medium setting.
I did fire up the kerosene heater a few times to get my feet thawed out. Once the feet get cold, Im miserable,, but it only ran a few minutes.,
All that to say this..
In an insulated garage I think the propane tank/dual burner setup will make working a reasonable venture, even w/o dropping separator walls, unless it is just really ugly weather. FWIW, Im wearing 2 pairs of socks, thermal drawers, jeans, a T shirt, thermal top, another T shirt & a hoody, so, Im dressed for cold. I cant afford to be dressed for warm weather & try to heat the shop enough to make me comfy.

Welding is a nasty thing. I have to drag a bead & get away, I go outside & cough & breath deep. Ill get a bag headache if I breathe that stuff much,Makes a project even slower, I opened the doors once & aired the place out, even fired up the fan,,

Im not gettin the CO1 feeling, maybe the shop is too leaky..

Ohh Yea! Got me a fine rubber pad. Picked up a complete rectangle on the beach in Galveston.My friend who has a place down there said it probably came off a charter fishing boat,, Very good quality rubber. Sliced it down its length & put 1/2 in front of each work bench. You betchya, a cement floor will have the feet cold in no time, & mine just dont appreciate being stood on all day any more,so, the pad is my buddy, year in & year out. Ive even got a hunk of throw rug down at one bench, so the pad is off the cement.


Dang! No wonder I want away from those fumes,, They really are nasty,,I have a friend who is disabled, he was a welder. His boss wanted some work done in a confined area, sent him in, no exhaust fan, no air piped in,, he lungs arent worth a crap now,
He is a great guy, HUGE heart, just cant seem to learn when to tell someone NO,, Im not doin that,, he Still does things for people that leaves him recovering for days.. not Me,, I wont let him work around here if its gonna mess with him,

Weeellll,,,, Ive got a roll about cart with a used oil catch can & some hydraulic oil & rags & other scary/dangerous stuff on it & underneath I have several 1 gallon gas cans, some with diesel, some pre-mix for saws & another for the weed-eater & a coupls 2.5 gallon gas cans. Ive got paint thinner & denatured alcohol around.. OHH flammables abound.. BUT,, when its cold the vapor pressure on stuff like that drops to about nothing,,& the shop is leaky enough it doesnt build fumes. I even have a gable vent that runs the length of the roof peak, Ive been doin this for a few years, so, Im pretty sure Im gonna survive,,but I appreciate the heads up,,
FWIW, when I drag out the torch or welder I do a dry run with stuff, to make sure Im not just TRying to start a fire & then I set a fire extinguisher between where Im working & the escape route Id take if there was a fire,so I can grab it & fight or toss it & Run,,

Boofer wrote on 12/11/13 at 22:18:02:


Yup...dry powder on wet eyes burns like heck.... then they see stars... of course you gotta go all the way and take'm out, cause they will sue you for blinding them if you don't.

Back on topic tho.... our washer and dryer are in our "non-insulated" garage. I am thinking maybe just putting a solid tube back there on the dryer (electric) and make a slider or switchable baffle to redirect the hot air into the garage. It will be a humid air so i'm not sure how it will work out.. I will let you know, for today, i'm just going to pop off the flex hose and see what the results will be.

Lots of " heat for cheap/heat for free" on youtube... even when I am not looking they just seem to be what youtybe thinks i wanna see. AL soda pop cans in a "glassed" in frame.. the guy was making 144 F in shade.

the new "rage" seems to be flowerpot candle powerd heaters. Though one guy showed that while the pot seems to get very hot it doesn't seem to do much spread that heat. Another vid re-acerted an old notion to trap heat with water. That is use low heat ( heater) and be sure to let that heat ( in his case 3 gal) of water. the water acts has big ole heat sink slowly releasing the heat ( and some moisture) into the room.

I just have a carport, opone on both ends so any attempt to warm that is futile. Though i have considered closing off the back.

You guys be careful of those CO's and CO2's

They go in like O2 but don't work like O2, you turn blue and fall on your face.

Yup, heating with a gas dryer exhaust probably isn't a good idea and for the cost of electricity if you're drying clothes anyway, why not get double duty from the dryer? Here in Arizona we need to have a cooler in our garages in December sometimes.  We had 85F a couple weeks ago.