Posted by fixerupper on December 04, 2009 at 18:44:15 from (207.177.13.178):
In Reply to: Sizing a furnace posted by msb on December 04, 2009 at 13:25:47:
It's a little small. I have a Modine hanging one about that size in a tight 30X32 shop that's insulated about like yours and it's ample but your shop has a lot more square feet than mine.
The furnace you have is next to new but it still sends up a red flag to me. When I built my shop I was given a gas furnace from a house that was maybe 20 years old so I installed it in the new shop. A year later I went into the shop one morning and it was foggy and hot in there and back in the corner by the furnace I saw flames shooting maybe five feet in the air. I couldn't run fast enough to get to the gas tank to shut the valve. The line going to the pilot light had cracked and the leaking gas ignited. I keep a clean shop so there was nothing by the furnace to catch fire, but it really tested my blood pressure. Insurance paid enough for another used furnace but I wasn't about to take the chance with another used one. I spent the extra money to have a new hanging furnace professionally installed.
I am told the insurance companies like the hanging furnaces better because they're above the heavy gas fumes that might be lurking near the floor of a shop. The water heater in the shop is up on a platform six feet off the floor for that reason. Just something to think about. I wish my shop was as big as yours. Jim
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