The last week or so has been quite cold up North in England.

My garage is getting so cold that I decided to monitor it during the cold few days we had.

I have a 2KW electric heater that does not improve things much, I really would like to heat the place more.

The garage was a new build this year and is 8m * 4m so it's not too bad a size. It has a brick outer, 50mm cavity and thermal blocks on the inside.

The attached picture shows a snapshot recorded during the cold few days we had.

Any ideas on how to heat the place better ?

Cheers....

Woodburning stove is the way to go mate.
You can burn your rejects/scrap and get somthing back (Heat!!!!).
I have a friend in stanley with a similar size cree and the stove is the business.

Hope this helps

Mark
http://www.weardalecnccarving.co.uk/

I have one of these in my garage. http://www.rezspec.com/catalog-udap.html

diesel heater

and yes they are quite expensive(new) dunno bout ebay

and offcourse if you're a woodcarver a woodburner would be quite economic

In hindsight, would it have been an advantage to put in off-peak in-floor heating in a concrete floor, is this still popular in the UK?

The last week or so has been quite cold up North in England.

My garage is getting so cold that I decided to monitor it during the cold few days we had.
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BTW 'quite cold' for me is -30°C, thats a challenge :)
Al.

how far is the garage from the house? if it's not too far (or even if attached to the house) then a 50m reel of 15mm Hep2o (45 squid), 2 22mm t-pieces (2 ea), two 22-15mm reductions, a bag of fittings (10 for a bag), one or two 600x1400mm radiators from wickes (30 quid a pop I think they were), a couple of wickes own-brand thermostat valves (6.99 each), a pair of slave valves (2.49 a pair?) and in an hour you'll have your garage centrally heated.

now, how's that for a proposal?

p.s. central heating only SOUNDS difficult to do, but believe me I had my whole flat "plumbed in" in a couple of hours.
p.p.s. you'll need to look up in your boilers user manual which are the two heating supply and return pipes (usually the two outside ones looking from the front), splice the two 22mm t's with reductions and from there take your 15mm hep2o to your garage and back and you're sorted! easy peasy I say.