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2/9/2009
IGCadmin
Around the Backyard Post
Our first shipment of heaters has arrived for the upcoming heater season, so this is a great time to outline some of the do's and don'ts of purchasing a heater for your home, garage, or greenhouse. Since Modine Hot Dawg heaters are the most common heater sold for these purposes, I'll pay special attention to it.
First thing you want to do is properly size the heater for the space you will be putting it in. Try our greenhouse heater calculator or our garage heater calculator to find out what...
27/1/2009
IGCadmin
Around the Backyard Post
I get many, many questions this time of year dealing with the cost of heating a greenhouse or garage using some of our heaters. The best we've been able to come up with is the cost per hour of continuous running. Now, as everyone should know, heaters don't run continuously. If you have set the thermostat, they will run until the desired temperature is met, and then turn off until the temperature drops. [/caption] In order to better calculate your heating needs you need to...
6/1/2009
IGCadmin
Around the Backyard Post
We recently did a complete install of a PDP250 heater for a local customer. Complete installation is something we normally do not do, but we figured we have put plenty of these heaters in and to do the install locally would be alright.
Nothing can drive home the point of hiring a trained professional to do an install of this magnitude than trying to install one yourself. The smaller, Hot Dawg models are one thing (and even these can be tricky when it comes to troubleshooting)....
22/12/2008
IGCadmin
Around the Backyard Post
There's nothing I like more than lighting a few lavender scented candles, drawing a nice warm bubble bath and...oh wait. Am I writing this out loud? Uhh...uhh....what I mean is errr...throwing on my plaid flannel shirt and suspenders, grilling some meat over an open flame, and chopping some wood. You know, man things and such.
Seriously though everyone loves candles. I happened upon a nifty candle heater that puts to good use all the lost heat of a candle. Simple,...
