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Does anyone have a recommendation for a portable kerosene heater?
Okay, the safest is a vented heater. That means that the exhaust is dumped outside. There are free standing heaters on this page for $139 or further down the page is a jet heater which will put out a ton of heat fast.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Dyna-Glo-D...ba490760839313142195589b1e93372d&gclsrc=3p.dsI am not recommending either brand as I have never owned them, I'm only trying to give you options of types. With either of these you will need adequate ventilation. With the heat heater you will need much more.
With any combustion appliance that doesn't have exterior exhaust you run the risk of CO poisoning. What happens without ventilation is that the O2 gets burned up and then you get incomplete combustion and the fire gives off CO instead of CO2. The carbon monoxide is highly poisonous.
Kat, when I was working the ambulance the very first call where I was the medic in charge, and the person was dead when we got there, was a case of CO poisoning. Almost every winter someone dies on a boat. They have an open flame heater, this one was a Coleman stove. As it gets colder and colder they tighten the boat up until they no longer have adequate ventilation. Usually only one person is living on the boat so only one person dies. This serves to remind everyone living on their boats not to close up so tightly. Some years it takes a couple of boats before they get the message.
I remember your boat. I hope you sobered up.
Your insurance company may not like that. They don't like open flame heaters in garages due to the other flammable substances that are in that area.In the garage
Check with your insurance company but many allow certain types of propane heaters.
If it has an enclosed flame and vents to outside I think most ins companies allow it.
Not cheap but something like this.
Yes, the electric ones will really spin the meter. The one I was recommending was propane.We got one of those or at least it looks like that for greenhouse, when we turned it on thought our meter was taking flight it ran so fast.Plus the wiring cost almost as much as the heater but we had to wire it to 220 box .
Is adding insulation an option? We did it to our garages and it made a huge difference.I would be using it only occasionally. Right now the temp in the mornings is about 20 and that makes it about 35 in my uninsulated garage. It is too cold to work out there and just need some heat for a short time.
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