kdiman said:I was wondering what you guys recommend for a garage heater that would be cheap to run. I was going to go natural gas but it is to expensive. It cost me $50 a month just to run a hot water heater. Any ideas would be appreciated.
cozy heat said:So find out what you are paying per therm (ccf) of natural gas and per KWh of electricity, then figure a therm is 100,000btu and a KWh is 3413 btu, and get a rough estimate of your gas heater efficiency, electric will be about 100%, then just plug in the numbers, normalize for 100,000 btu -
Highbeam said:Don't burn diesel in your wick style kero heater because diesel is #2 fuel oil where kerosene is #1 fuel oil and much thinner. The thick #2 oil won't wick as well, like sucking concrete through a straw. Don't try thinning your #2 into #1 with gasoline either, for some reason it doesn't work.
Many places sell bulk kerosene at lower prices than the 5 gallon pails from HD. My convection style kero heater is 26000 btus I believe.
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