How Electric Garage Heaters Make Garage Space Useful Space

The family garage is often the subject of cartoons because it serves as a repository for anything and everything – except the family car – that doesn’t fit elsewhere in the home.  Hold a yard sale then turn empty garage space into year-around useful space with an electric garage heater.  Set aside newly liberated floor space for a workbench.  Move in your exercise gear from the den and otherwise add utility to the garage and value to your home simply by installing a permanently mounted or portable electric garage heater.

Choosing Electric Garage Heaters

The first step in selecting electric garage heaters is the electrical supply and how you want to provide power to the heating unit.    Most electric garage space heaters are plugged into a standard 115-volt outlet but ideally should have a separate circuit breaker – especially if you are using power tools in your new workshop area.   More powerful units such as the Qmark QPH4A Portable Heater require a 240 volt outlet or connection to a 240-volt circuit breaker. Such wiring modifications should be performed by a licensed electrical contractor.  Quartz heaters and their cousins, infrared electric garage heaters, provide what is called radiant heat.  They will warm you, your tools and your workout equipment but are not designed to warm the entire garage area.

Portable electric garage heaters such as a Qmark ARL1511 Portable Infrared Heater can be relocated as needed to provide radiant heat to in a specific area.  Other options available from HeaterStoreOnline.com are equipped with fans, thermostats, and safety caution and power indicator lights.

The Garage as a Family Room

If you decide to keep the car in the driveway and turn your newly liberated garage space into living space such as a family room, you will want to consider permanently installed wall-mounted or baseboard convection space heaters.  Convection heaters are designed to warm the air in the room – and thereby its occupants – rather than directed heat to a specific location.

An example of a wall-mounted convection garage heater is the digital programmable wall heater designed for positioning between wall studding with connections to the electrical grid.  These are available in several sizes and capacities, some of which require 240-volt power.

Baseboard convection space heaters resemble hot water baseboard heaters and can be installed individually or in series as needed, and can be individually controlled or controlled by a wall-mounted thermostat.  Incidentally, these and similar electric space heaters are also a great choice when you turn attics into living space or add a room to you house because they don’t require costly extension to the central heating system. 

If your former garage or new room is used full time you’ll want to be sure you are providing adequate heat during winter season.

Some of the garage heaters mentioned in this blog post can be seen here below, but here you will find a complete itinerary of energy efficient garage heaters for your consideration. 

Qmark TBX - Tool Box Heater

Qmark ARL1511 - Portable Infrared Heater

Qmark QPH4A - Portable Unit Heater

Qmark HT1502SS HT Smart Series - Digital Programmable Wall Heate

 
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