How to keep garage warm or cool and any issues with equipment

[Golfallday1983]

I live in Ontario. I installed a sim for my buddy and put in this. It’s perfect in his 2 car garage.

https://www.rona.ca/en/heater-ruh-po...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

Yes I’ve seen these they look like they work great

i think a mini split is best for ontario as summers get pretty hot

[mthunt]

I live in Ontario. I installed a sim for my buddy and put in this. It’s perfect in his 2 car garage.

https://www.rona.ca/en/heater-ruh-portable-unit-heater-5000-w-03915199?viewStore=55070&cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=9897044398&cq_con=101247314340&cq_term=&cq_med=&cq_plac=&cq_net=u&cq_pos=&cq_plt=gp&&cm_mmc=shopping_google-_-9897044398-_-101247314340-_-pla-721990393145&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI59To5If77QIVy_rICh05wQ6iEAQYBCABEgJSnPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[InRange]

Every circumstance is different of course. Having a licensed pro do the HVAC work. In my case the space is essentially all SIM. garage doors bolted shut, vapour barrier, studs, insulation, drywall so zero chance of C/O (well at least from a car running)

[bubbtubbs]

I don't know what the building codes are like in the States, but I'm fairly certain you can't legally heat/cool a garage space using the forced-air circulation from the house.

There's a reason insulated, automatic-close doors and double layers of drywall with non-overlapping seams are standard on modern houses: they don't want carbon monoxide from a running vehicle to enter the house.

If you were to permanently remove the garage door(s) and isolate the golf area from the rest of the parking space, you might get away with it.

[JohnLew]

I have a gas heater in there right now, the question is just how consistently/often to run it and how low to let it go.

[chip_shot]

So heat pumps are for sure more efficient then electric inductive heaters, even in extreme cold. The problem is they are less efficient, or less powerful, when the outside air temperature is extremely cold. Heat pumps pull heat from the outside and then expel the heat inside. My best semi-educated guess is worse case scenario in Minnesota or Canada the heat pump wont be powerful to keep the space maintained at setpoint in the winter but it will still provide more heat for the money then a electric heater. Its just my best guess though...

[chip_shot]

Heat pumps move heat from the outside to the inside. The colder it is outside the less heat there is to bring inside, I realize this concept might not sound accurate but trust me it is. Its not that a heat pump cant heat in extreme cold, its just not as powerful and thus might not be able to keep up, but it might. I havent researched how effective they are for that type of climate

[InRange]

If you’re lucky often HVAC vertical runs to upper floors may use interior garage walls depending on your layout and furnaces position. From my basement I have 6 runs in 3 different areas of the garage buried just under the drywall, it’s like a highway. An HVAC professional will be accessing the situation next week. I’d love to just tie it into the FA/Gas whole home system. BTW, I’m starting with a fully insulated garage.

[JohnLew]

So what's the consensus on low temperatures? Just recently installed my EYE XO, computer and a flat panel TV in my garage. Have a screen and projector coming in the next couple weeks.

Minnesota winter so it can get pretty cold. 5 degrees here right now, was -5 or so over night last night. My garage is finished and semi-insulated. I do have a good heater in there but I don't run it all the time, I usually only run it when I'm going to be out there doing something. For the last week or so since I installed the install I've been heating it up to about 60 degrees before going out there and turning anything on. The EYE XO is powered off via a smart plug so it has no power draw at all until I turn that plug on. Will likely do the same with the projector.

Am I likely to have issues here? Got me thinking a little because when I heated up and powered on the EYE XO today and hit some balls I noticed a very faint buzzing noise from the unit when the infrared came on fully when identifying a ball. Hadn't noticed that before in previous sessions... although now that I think about it, I've never hit balls out there without music playing either.

[RollinRox]

I live in the Northeast, and my setup is in an uninsulated 3 season porch with lots of windows. I covered the windows with these insulating blinds https://blinds.homedepot.com/p/venet...ades/306379081, which have significantly reduced the temperature fluctuation when the weather changes. I highly recommend doing this if your garage has a bunch of windows, as it will make warming or cooling the garage faster and more effecient.

[bm11]

I went a full winter in Maine in an un-insulated stone garage, only heating when I used it. Occasionally I’d need to wait for the projector lens fog to clear, but I never ran into a failure of any sort.

[Golfallday1983]

Ok perfect thanks so the amount of money spend on electrical bills wouldn’t be noticeable?

[Joe M]

It does not use a lot of electricity. Unlike traditional heat pumps my 2 mini splits run off 110volt and only a 20 amp breaker. Get the highest seer rating you can.

[Golfallday1983]

I don’t think my garage goes below 0 Celsius’s outside the house gets below 10 Celsius so will a mini split heat a garage that is above 0 and summer cool from 30s to low 20s?

also how much extra is your electricity bills a year using a mini split in a garage I’m hearing it is pretty expensive?

im in Toronto area we get similiar weather as New York I believe

[Jnc10]

I am on the holly springs line but actually Fuquay I am real close to bass lake and a member at devils ridge