Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
I just bought a heater for my Garage. Its a Hamilton Home Products WUH 060-3C 60,000 BTU heater which I will convert to Propane.
This is getting installed in the bottom floor of a 2 floor, garage, which is 26'X26' inside on each floor.
Now I am going to mount the heater from the ceiling inside the bottom floor garage, then have a short cold air return so I can put a filter on it, then use a large duct across the inside back of the garage with vents. Plus I will run a duct up to the upstairs garage to provide a little heat for it, but the thermostat will be downstairs where the workshop (and my truck) will be.
Installed this way the vent would only be about 3' long (which gets me 12" outside the block wall) if I was to use a Horizontal side wall vent.
Anyway, the question is the directions say for horizontal side wall venting I must use a power venter. They say to use either the Fields Controls SWG-4Y or the Tjernlund GPAK-JT.
Having no idea how much these cost, would it be cheaper to just run the vent out through the block wall, then run some Gas B vent pipe up to a couple feet above the roof line, standing it far enough off the vinyl siding of the 2nd floor so I don't melt it.
(with only a 3' vent pipe, do I even need this power venter?, When you look inside the vent on the heater there is already a fan inside there to help it blow the exhaust out the vent pipe. )
Anyway, I was going to get a heater made for a garage, but I found this one brand new on Clarence for $275. 00 marked down from $500. I just could not pass it up.
This is getting installed in the bottom floor of a 2 floor, garage, which is 26'X26' inside on each floor.
Now I am going to mount the heater from the ceiling inside the bottom floor garage, then have a short cold air return so I can put a filter on it, then use a large duct across the inside back of the garage with vents. Plus I will run a duct up to the upstairs garage to provide a little heat for it, but the thermostat will be downstairs where the workshop (and my truck) will be.
Installed this way the vent would only be about 3' long (which gets me 12" outside the block wall) if I was to use a Horizontal side wall vent.
Anyway, the question is the directions say for horizontal side wall venting I must use a power venter. They say to use either the Fields Controls SWG-4Y or the Tjernlund GPAK-JT.
Having no idea how much these cost, would it be cheaper to just run the vent out through the block wall, then run some Gas B vent pipe up to a couple feet above the roof line, standing it far enough off the vinyl siding of the 2nd floor so I don't melt it.
(with only a 3' vent pipe, do I even need this power venter?, When you look inside the vent on the heater there is already a fan inside there to help it blow the exhaust out the vent pipe. )
Anyway, I was going to get a heater made for a garage, but I found this one brand new on Clarence for $275. 00 marked down from $500. I just could not pass it up.
Hey bud, I'm pretty sure that you want to be 3 feet away from any roof material or second story wall. I'm going from memory from our fire dept flyer we got. I have the power vent for a oil fired furnace under the house and it works great as it just exits out the wall. However, if it ever fails, I'm with you and will run a pipe up the side of the house and leave 3 feet clearance. Tim
