OK,
Northeast Ohio can get pretty cold. According to my old heat calc book, the suggested design outdoor temperature in that area is 10 degrees. If this is a former single car garage, about 250 square feet, with insulated & finished side walls and 8' high ceiling, R-11 in the sidewalls & R-19 in the ceiling with 1/2" drywall all around, then you will need about 16,000 BTU to maintain a 60 degree temperature difference (70 deg inside when 10 deg outside).
All guesses, of course. If the above is even close, you are looking at a minimum of 4.5 KW of electric heat to keep the room usable in winter. Again, depending on your lifestyle, I think some sort of fuel-burning heater would be more appropriate.
John
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> --- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, "archeryhoney" <archeryhoney@> wrote:
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> > My husband and I are going to convert our garage into a den/man room and we aren't quit sure what kind of heat source to install. We removed the big garage door and closed it in when we sided the outside of the house, we installed a regular entry door and have insulated the room. We need to install a separate heat source from the rest of the house and were considering possibly installing a 120 volt electric baseboard heater. Any suggestions on what kind or suggestions for other possible heat sources.
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> We live in Northeast Ohio. We have hot water heat in the cement floor of the rest of our house so being able to hook into that is impossible. The furnace itself is on the opposite side of the house from the garage/den.
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