Mine is in the back of the third stall of my garage. It is 17'x9'. I would have liked it deeper but I wanted to leave room for a third vehicle if necessary.



My garage is mostly below grade so I don't need to worry about cooling it in the summer. But I am in South Dakota so I wanted an efficient way to heat the room.



I chose 220V Radiant Cover Heaters. It can be 20 below zero outside and I can heat this room to 85* with less amps than seven, 100 watt light bulbs.



The floor and walls are insulted with foil-covered poly-iso rigid insulation board. The ceiling just has some batting, but I will also cover that with a radiant barrier.



I'm not thrilled with the electric. I hired the husband of my wife's assistant and he was doing a horrible job so I just told him to do the basics and be done. I have two, 20 amp circuits in the room as well as the circuit for the heaters.



I would have liked to have had one of the circuts on a timer so that at any give outlet one of the receptacles would have been on the timer.



I have a very powerful exaust fan as well a ceiling fan. The ceiling fan runs 24/7 to move the slight convective current produced by my heaters. Even in the winter the floor to ceiling temperature differential is only a degree or two. Most of that is due to the use of a radiant heat source, but the fan does help a bit.



Here are some pictures. In both you can see the radiant heaters on the upper walls.








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Current snakes:



0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)



2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

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