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3 Reasons Why You Should Heat Your Garage

3 Reasons You Should Heat Your Garage

Many homeowners are moving in the direction of heating their garage, both for the safety benefits and for the extra space. Should you heat your garage? Check out the top reasons why this has become a popular trend!

1. Avoid Harmful Damage

Freezing temperatures are not good for a lot of the things you might be keeping in your garage. Heating your garage will prevent the following harmful effects of the cold to your possessions:

  • Car Won’t Start – Keeping your car in a cold garage can mean mornings where it just won’t start. Freezing temperatures can kill car batteries and cause damage to other parts.
  • Frozen Pipes – If you have exposed pipes in your unheated garage, you run the risk of freeze, burst, and flooding.
  • Spoiled Food & Drink – When the liquids in food and drink freeze, they expand, sometimes to the point of breaking their containers. This exposes them to the air, causing them to spoil.
  • Broken Appliances – Any appliances you keep in an unheated garage are at risk of damage to their components.
  • Cold Pets – Do not keep your pets in a cold garage! They will be uncomfortable and they could get sick!

2. Protect Your Home

Because maintaining a heated garage prevents damage to your home, it is a valuable asset to new homeowners. Heating your garage increases the value of your home for potential buyers in the future. This fact has caused many homeowners’ associations to require garage heating of their neighbors. The higher the value of your home, the higher the value of your neighborhood! Heated garages also protect the rest of the home from the cold, providing an extra buffer between the home and the outside, eliminating drafts. This is also desirable to most buyers.

3. Make It Comfortable

There are a lot of things you could be doing with the extra space in your garage. Heating your garage opens up the following exciting opportunities!

  • Auto Repairs – The garage is the #1 place for home auto repairs in the winter. Keep it warm to avoid stiff fingers, joints, and complaints that are keeping you from getting the job done!
  • Hobby Projects – Garages can be great spaces for hobby projects in the winter. Heat your garage to find more space for your latest craft!
  • Recreation – A garage is large enough to hold a tennis table or for the kids to run around for hours on end. Keep it heated for extra space to run off the winter blues!
  • Starting a Business – How many times have you heard that someone started their business “out of the garage?” If you are thinking about starting a business, heat your garage for extra space!
  • Home Storage – Once a garage has been heated, it becomes valuable storage space for the extra knick-knacks, holiday decorations, and clutter lying around the house!
  • Laundry Room – Many folks keep their laundry room in the garage. Heating the space makes doing laundry a lot more pleasant!
  • Exercise Equipment – For winter workouts, heat your garage and put your exercise equipment in the space. You’ll love your newfound exercise location!
  • Extra Space – All in all, heated garages are a great place for extra space, whether you want to store items, work on projects, or renovate to create a new bedroom or apartment!

If you are interested in getting a garage heater for your garage in Anchorage or the Mat-Su Valley, give us a call! After over 30 years serving Alaska, our team at Moore Heating knows a thing or two about the benefits of heating a garage. We’d love to talk more with you about the topic!