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bucs012 · Jan 25, 2010

I had my contractor come back to my 50x30 to make another bay for a car within the 50x30.

He had a Kerosen heater that he bought at Menards last year. It is a brand they call Kero Heat. see at this link http://shop.menards.com/shop/plumbi...erosene-heater-23000-btu/p-58997.htm?cid=3241

Cost $119. It rated at 900 to 1,000 square feet, but my garage is 1500! Very well insulated though. I used it ALL day yesterday (to test it). It holds 1.9 gallons of kerosene and I burned it for about 11 hours (right after the Saints win!) and I bet it would burn for another 1-2 hours at least! It says it will run 9-12 hours on 1.9 gallons.

This thing heated up my 50x30 fully insulated garage with 9 foot ceilings to 65 degrees on a 20 degree day and strong N.W. wind! Killer heater for the money! I went and bought one yesterday as a back up for my garage and or house since we live on an acreage!

Only complaint- The handle is ****, but you could make it stronger with a little tinkering. For the money and heat this thing throws out..... Who cares?

sixball · Jan 25, 2010

I saw that there last weekend and it was on sale for 98 bucks. Almost bought one for the same reasons you did, but I just don't like kero. I used one in a much smaller 1 1/2 bay garage years ago and everything in there had an oily feel to it after running it.

Does anyone know if you can run diesel in those? I currently use my slamander (running diesel) to get my garage up to about 60 then turn it off, shut the doors and kick the electric heater on to maintain the temp around 60 to 65. I've never noticed the diesel smell except for when I turn it off and thats only afew minutes, and I don't notice the oily feel on anything.

I wouldn't mind having one of those if you can in fact run diesel in it.

bry@n · Jan 25, 2010

does it give off a smell of kerosene?

bucs012 · Jan 25, 2010

As with ANY kerosene heater you should, vent via window or door to keep the smell down and gas carbon out. I have always done this.

My contractor has run his in the shop for over a year with NO problems with soot. Takes it ice fishing in his tent too. You have to make sure you use the CLEAN kerosene I think they call k-1? AND make sure your wick is not too high or low thus will put soot out in the air. You want about 1/2 inch of a flame and you should not have soot problems. This heater is burning CLEAN and hardly any smell after burning for 12 hours yesterday. I have 9 ft ceiling with WHITE paint. Will be interesting to watch the ceiling in the future.

My older Kerosene heater from just 5 years ago seemed to smell a little more, but never enought to bother me. Never had soot problems either. I ended up giving it to my wifes dad to use in the farm machine shop.

If you have a good kerosene heater, use the clean fuel and adjust the wick, you should be good to go.

sixball · Jan 25, 2010

So I guess when you say CLEAN fuel, that rules diesel out ? Where do you get your fuel? I've seen the fuel in stores, and I think it's way more expensive than at the kerosene pump at the gas stations.

bucs012 · Jan 25, 2010

The only thing you want to run in any kerosene heater is the CLEAN type at your large box stores. I bough mine for $12.99 for 2.5 gallons. I ran my heater yesterday for 11 hours and burned about 1.3 gallons of the 1.9 gallons it holds. Cost was about $7.00. Not a bad back up system to have on hand for the garage and or shop.

My full time garage heater is a Dayton G73 electrical heater. Only costs me 8 cents per killowatt hour to run that. It only pulls 5 killowats per hour running full time. It never runs even close to full time. Heats my 15x20 shop for probably $1.50 in the same scenario outlined above. Our electrical cost is low!

If you burn deisel I would think it would STINK.....Never done it though.

sixball · Jan 25, 2010

I drive a semi so I'm probably imune to the smell of diesel

rwhite692 · Jan 25, 2010

Keep in mind that a Kero heater will (over time) leave a deposit of oily film all over everything in the room, which is really only a problem if you do critical painting projects (ie auto painting and the like) in your garage.

bucs012 · Jan 26, 2010

This heater is simply a back up to my electrical heaters.

I must ask though. I have never had issues with kerosene residue. Does it mainly happen if you heat your garage for MANY years or heat FULL TIME with kerosene heaters?

sixball · Jan 26, 2010

When I had the oily film, it was after using an older kerosene heater in 1 1/2 bay detached garage. The garage itself was an old 1950's-60's aluminium kit from sears, I vinyl sided over the aluminium panels so it would fit in more with the evolving neighborhood. It even had a metal roof. It wasn't insulated, but that kerosene heater really worked well in that garage. I was only out there on weekends, and after about a month of that, I noticed the film on metal parts mostly. Again, it was an older kerosene heater I had picked up at a garage sale, maybe the new ones burn cleaner, plus I was buying my kerosene at the pump at the gas station

bucs012 · Jan 26, 2010

sixball said:
I drive a semi so I'm probably imune to the smell of diesel

This reminds me of a daytime talk show I was watching some years ago. There was a lady on there that said the smell of diesel drove her crazy! As in wanting to do the nasty! No lie. :beer:

Iroc-Z · Jan 26, 2010

If you get a kerosene set up properly they don't put off much of a smell. My parents use to run a kerosene heater in the house during the winter months and it never smelled. Worked quite nice. Kind of like a fire place.

sixball · Jan 26, 2010

bucs012 said:
This reminds me of a daytime talk show I was watching some years ago. There was a lady on there that said the smell of diesel drove her crazy! As in wanting to do the nasty! No lie.

You find those "ladies" at alot of truck stops ............. But they want you to pay them to do the nasty !

jonny o · Jan 26, 2010

Holy ****... Menards has a website with products!?

bucs012 · Jan 27, 2010

jonny o said:
Holy ****... Menards has a website with products!?

Ha! I had to NOT go on menards to find it. I Google searched the heater and also put Menards in the search and it came up............I can't believe they don't have products to searh on their site!

Doesn anyone know why? All the other big box stores do. I have NOT gone to Menards many of times for this very reason.

sixball · Jan 27, 2010

I think Menards is in the process of setting up a searchable site within there site. In my town, we just got a Menards last summer, and at that time, I tried to get on their site and search afew things for a price check and it was a no go. Now when I google someting it comes up, then I can click on search other products and I can somewhat navigate through there, but it's not easy and ALOT of stuff doesn't show up. So...... it seems to me it's just in the begining stages. I wish they would hurry up and get with the times

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