No,it will be a LOT of heat loss if there’s any non insulated wall in the garage. Any non direct heat source would never be able to keep up. Not even close.
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Could be disastrous. Don’t.
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The garage has never gotten cold enough for the laundry tub I.llegally installed to freeze.
The one outside garage wall is probably insulated, but I do not know.
I should find away to insulate the garage door panels. But I believe that bare insulation board would be a fire hazard, nothat I have not already created a fire hazard with skillet and sheet.
I installed this on my doors. Easy install. Check the weight capacity of the springs / motor to make sure you do not exceed the rating.
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Nice! Thank you.
May have to tighten the spring to compensate for thextra weight.
(Spring broke a feweeks ago. Could not find another and replace myself. Had to call a garage door company whichad springs to do the replacement.)
That’s one home repair job I won’t touch. Those springs have a lot of energy stored up in them, and I would like my hands to stay attached to my wrists. 
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One of our home garage door springs broke two weeks ago. I was surprised at how hard it was to find a replacement spring (white code, 110lb, 7ft door). So many places were sold out and back-ordered.
Replacing a broken spring doesn’t worry me. It’s having a spring break at random and cause damage to anything in its path.
I started using safety cables through the middle of those springs years ago. Now when they break, they’ll stay put.
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There are 2 different types of garage door springs . The ones that are on a rod above the door are not really something an unexperienced person should replace . I think Joe has the ones that are on the side of the garage wall and they should have a cable run through them because they can really cause damage when they break.
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In a month, my area will be inundated with spring breakers.
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Correct. Thank you for clarifying that.
As long as the doors aren’t heavy, spring replacement isn’t too bad. We have fiberglass doors and I’ve replaced springs twice. I put the spring on they eye bolt, then push the bolt through the brace and thread the nut on.
Good idea! I assumed thathey had an internal safety cable.
Our spring twistightens to take much of the weight off the 5-panel door.
Then thelectric door opener or person can open the door.
Have changed springs three times. Must be very careful when turning the spring 7-1/2 times.
People have been seriously hurt when tightening, I recall.
Pretty sure that is for the other kind of spring that works in extension, not rotation.
Yes. A thick round metal rod runs through the horizontal overhead torsion spring.
Luckily it broke when the door closed, (spring tightest), so the door did not descend fast and hard.
Mine are insulated aluminum. The 2 car one is heavy enough that when the spring broke as I was opening the door, the opener track bowed out by a couple of feet before I could reverse it.
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74º F outside air temperatureading when I departed at 0400 on an emergency blood transport.
In the cold garage the sheet on the hood also drapes down over the front keeping some heat in thengine compartment.
Thelectric skillet seems to be working well.
Why would anyone try to heat the engine when it’s 74º F? That makes ZERO sense. But so do most of your posts.
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Sorry. “vehicle” disappeared.
The.rmometer in front of the radiator indicated 74º on the instrument panel after I backed out onto the street.
Garage was cold on a cold winter’s night.
Would be nice if the vehicle’s temperature gauge read temperature.
that’s because you are covering the front with a sheet keeping the hot air under it. it is reading the temp under the sheet.
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Yes. The wholengine compartment from the sheet also drapedown over the front.