Keeping a garage warm in winter

evoke

A quick update to this thread. I bought a 600W wall-mounted convection heater off eBay a few weeks ago. It's a really basic heater with frost protection and needs to be installed by a qualified electrician as it's designed to be connected to a fused spur. It came with a simple wall mounting bracket and has worked very well so far.

Being rated at just 600W means that it's fairly cheap to run and in the frost-protection mode only comes on every now and then. It's now mounted on a garage wall and takes up very little space.

The actual model is Dimplex General Purpose Heater Compact Frost Watcher 600W, bought from CNM Online:

http://www.cnmonline.co.uk/Dimplex-General-Purpose-Heater-Compact-Frost-Watcher-600W-pr-36229.html

It was a bit pricier than I was wishing for at nearly £27 but it ticks all the other boxes for me.

HappyMJ

I have a little 600W oil filled radiator that I got from freecycle and it uses that most of the time and keeps the temperature of the room it is in off freezing. It holds the room at the moment to about 12 degrees when operating which is smaller than a garage. It uses nearly 12kWh per day if I leave it on all the time. That could cost about £1.20 per day if your electric rate is good. Over 90 days in winter that's about £108. I'd go for the insulating first.

Norman_Castle

Could you box in the boiler and surrounding pipework?. This much smaller area would easily be heated by heat leaking from the pipes and boiler.