whats the cheapest way to heat a garage?

[truewraith]

wasnt sure which type of heater to try look for to heat our large garage for winter as there are so many out there so please if anyones got any suggestions that would be awesome

 

[truewraith]

err thanks for some of those helpful comments Portable Electric Space Heaters seam the place to go i think, but it would be to heat the place to stay warm while work in there as its a double garage almost

 

[truewraith]

Are you wanting to heat the space or people inside it?

An infra-red heater would be much cheaper, but only really useful for heating "people". If you're trying to keep the whole room warm then you'll need an electric heater / oil filled radiator.

Electric heaters / oil rads are 100% efficient, so you aren't going to get cheaper than that really.

Next obvious solution is insulation too, to stop the heat escaping.

yeh a lot of draft comes through the garage door mostly at the top

 

[truewraith]

I'd look at sealing up your door as much as possible as any draft makes it feel loads colder straight away, these are good for the bottom of the door and something like this for the top perhaps?

Then if its only for when you're working in there those infrared space heater type jobs will probably be best, we used to use them when i worked in a big warehouse type place doing PC repair, they don't take too much energy and seem to heat you rather than the space plus stuff doesn't go on fire it it touches them which can be a bonus in a garage.

i bought the Garage Seal HEAVY DUTY RUBBER Draught Excluder which once fitted is great and also keeps the small amounts of rain that was coming in so thanks very much for the advice looking into the heater and the top excluder as well. sounds crazy but never owned a garage before so that was the reason i was asking for advice etc and setting on fire was not an option lol.