Many car enthusiasts know that car repair in the winter in an unheated garage resembles sophisticated torture. Yes, and many things that require utmost care are quite difficult to do when your fingers are simply numb from the cold.
Garage stoves can become a real salvation. You can buy them or design them yourself. Let's look at what options you can use.
Potbelly stove
The easiest and cheapest option. They are produced in a wide range by industry. A stove-potbelly stove in the garage can be made in various styles, including from open cast iron. Such a product will surely not leave anyone indifferent.
The advantages of this type of stoves include "omnivorous", as they can be drowned with anything. The disadvantages are rare gluttony, which is especially true for steel bourgeois, as well as low efficiency. Most of the heat will instantly fly out into the pipe. So it’s best to use such garage stoves only in those cases when you have enough fuel at hand.
Convection Canadian Ovens
This is a relatively new product in our market, but it has already gathered a huge number of fans. Remember the advertisement of miracle stoves working on one armful of firewood for days? That they are. The principle of operation is based on convection: the furnace body is surrounded by pipes in which air is constantly heated and goes into the room, pulling in the cooler layers.
The advantages include good efficiency and high efficiency. The heat does not fly away into the chimney, so such a garage stove can heat even a very large room. The disadvantages include a relatively high cost, and only dry wood is recommended to be burned in them.
In addition, convection flows contribute to the presence of a constant dust suspension in the air, which does not contribute to the prevention of diseases of the respiratory system.
Development furnaces
This variety can be safely recommended to all experienced motorists. They probably have a hundred or two liters of waste oil, which is simply nowhere to go. In stores, such stoves for a garage are not sold, but in the presence of welding and metal they can be done independently in a couple of hours.
They work on spent lubricant, and a dozen liters is quite enough for several hours of a full-fledged “heating season”. The advantages include the penny cost and simplicity of design. The disadvantages are the need for the constant availability of easily soiled and sufficiently flammable fuel. Leaving such an oven unattended is not recommended.
Brick kilns
Finally, if we consider options for heating a decent area of a garage (more relevant for farmers), we can not stop at this option. Of course, for their masonry you will need to find a normal stove-maker, and you should not forget about a decent foundation.
Their plus is that such wood-burning garage stoves, once heated, accumulate heat for a long time. Even on a frosty night, your equipment will be reliably protected from the vagaries of domestic weather.