Thread: Another heating season for the shop

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Think I'll stick with my natural gas furnace, just need to blow the dust out of it and crank up the thermostat....It's been there for 15 years or so and still works great.

And it probably burns lots of gas. My radiant tube heater burns natural gas as well, but small quantities of it. I spend only 40% of what the old furnace cost to run. Over a long cold Alberta winter that amounts to quite a few project $.

Originally Posted by Blue One

And it probably burns lots of gas. My radiant tube heater burns natural gas as well, but small quantities of it. I spend only 40% of what the old furnace cost to run. Over a long cold Alberta winter that amounts to quite a few project $.

Yeah-you read my mind.The tubes is one form of efficient gas heater.Almost all forms of fuels have their peak performers.The exception is electric.The average per therm costs are cheaper,but the output to get to the same temps uses more thus costing more to run.With wood the high "E" is wood pellets and because of that the ash left is 1/4 cup per every 40lb bag.Basicly one clean out a wk.Dave depending on how old you deal is,it can't be much more than 70%.I had a older furnace in my old shop which was 32' x 24' ceiling insulated.I did a favor for a friend and we had two compressors running and the furnace running for about ten days to do the ruff body work on his truck. RG&E sent me the bill after that which was pretty rude.$1,200 for the month.Ouch!!.No B.S. Dave.I'm just saying you could having a gas service do better even if was buying used take out that was a newer one because those did have better ratings.

I gets back to my point.Pay less for the heater and then end up paying more for the fuel,or pay more for the heater and less for the fuel.The Monitor heaters is a example of a heat source that is 93%.Might even be able to use credit to buy one and then use the savings difference to pay it off.They have a tank lift pump system so you don't deal with the 5 gallon tanks.The pay back rating is 16 months in the savings.England stove works has the same pay back rating for the pellet stoves.But unless you have a generator either is much help requiring electric to run them in a power outage.