Hi folks -
My shop is in an unfinished basement area, adjacent to a finished section. It's 300 sq ft, 2400 cu ft. In the long cold New England winter, it tends to get down into the high 40's at worst. Right now, I heat it only when I'm going to work using a couple of 1500W heaters - a fan-forced electric heater on the floor and a radiant heater on the ceiling.
It takes a good hour to get comfortable, and even longer to be evenly heated. Plus the floor heater is always in the way.
I've been trying to find a better means of heating it.
One possibility is some kind of more industrial heater, mounted high on wall - I've seen 220V models that were reasonable. I'm thinking something like that could bring the temp up faster if it had a good fan.
I've seen Envi heaters advertised in FWW - but they're only about 500W, and since they use convection, they aren't going to bring it up fast. I suppose I could use a couple of those to keep it a bit higher so it won't take as long to bring up to comfortable temp.
Breaking up the floor for some kind of radiant heat is not an option.
What do others do?
Thanks,
Michael