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Well I guess I should of addded, "shop" is a beat up old garage out back it was 9 IN THE SHOP.

If it was a little better shape I would insulate it, but....

I guess I should be thankfull I ain't living in my van down by the river...

I have no source of heat in my shop/garage. I had foam insulation sprayed in the ceilings 6" foam and walls 3" foam along with an R-17 garage door.

14 degrees outside & 44 degrees in the garage/shop.

Air sealing is the key. Have foam in the ceiling as the master bedroom is on top of the garage portion. I have a cathedral ceiling in the rear shop addition which is 15' x 18'. It's amazing because in the summertime when it's 95 degrees, the garage/shop is only 65 degrees unless I open the doors.

In Vancouver, B.C. (Canada), we don't have weather, we have climate. It snowed a couple of weeks ago, was gone by dinner. The snow this year has obligingly saturated the ski hills around us, and made those folks deliriously happy. The lack of snow locally has done the same for me.

End of January, and no real snow to speak of... Dare I hope? Dare I dream? mostly rain so far.

Derek

Its -9 outside right now here, and about 30 in my workshop/ wifes garage. Day before I put a space heater in there, it read 36 when I started it. 2 hours later it had made it all the way up to 40.

nathan

While my basement woodshop can easily get too warm to work comfortably, my farm shop gets so cold that if I want to work in there in cold weather I often open an overhead door to let the cold air out.
On the upside, in the summer heat, it is usually reasonably comfortable.

In the basement woodshop (also quickly becoming home to my western boot shop) there are 2 potential heat outlets from the air handler ducting and one directly from the wood furnace. Currently I have all three of them closed. That wood furnace sits smack-dab in the center of the 24'x40' shop room. Not the best setup, eats too much space, gets the shop too warm... This spring I will build a new chimney to sit the furnace in another room where it will put any excess heat radiating from the furnace in an ideal spot for it to travel up the open stairway to the main part of the house. At that point I expect to need to open the 2 air handler outlets at least part way to keep the woodshop comfortable. I would hope that I can balance it to stay about 65°.
70° is just too warm to suit me for working. Somehow it is different when it gets a lot warmer in the summer. Once it gets warm enough that we kick on the AC in the summer the whole basement stays about 68°.


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lightnin wrote:I keep the thermostat @ 45&#176]

Why?

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rjn2649 wrote:Well I guess I should of addded, "shop" is a beat up old garage out back it was 9 IN THE SHOP.

If it was a little better shape I would insulate it, but....

I guess I should be thankfull I ain't living in my van down by the river...

When my woodshop was in the farm shop building the west wall of the building was leaking badly and since most of our winter wind comes from the west it stayed super drafty in the shop. I could not have lit it with candles because they would have all blown out.
During a couple of winters I got rolls of 4 mil. poly sheeting 10' x 50' and covered the outside of that wall using a lot of lattice sized rough-sawn strips to hold it. I just went across all of the windows, a walk door and one overhead door. Really made a huge difference... I think the total cost was under $20.


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reible wrote:Who has the coldest shop today, lets get some data and find out.

My shop is at 35.5 degrees at 6:00 this January 22, 2013.

Is yours colder? Give us a post and be the "Emperor of the Coldest Shop" for the day.

Ed

Can't beat that for cold, but have almost tied at 35 degrees. We have had many cold nights here in the High Desert. Quite a few lows in the single digits. I think the lowest was 7.

I have found if I can warm up the shop during daytime and keep the "MASS" from getting too cold, the inside temp will stay pretty good. However my wife and I were sick for 6 weeks and just couldn't spend much time in the shop. Therefor the "MASS" got cold. Now it is a chore to get the shop warmed up again. Warmer temps outside will certainly help.

I got a message from my brother this morning, this is all it said

"(-22.9)"

I don't think he need to say anything else.


Ed