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Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
By:Andy Waddington
Date: 11/16/2002, 4:31 am
In Response To: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options (Marcel Rodriguez)

: weather here .. has been diving down to the 40's at night.
: I need to try and keep things above 60 degrees for my West system Epoxy
: I tried using a 1500 watt electric heater, but it only raised the temp
: by a few degrees. The space I am dealing with is a two-car, uninsulated,
: attached garage.

I expoxied Geyrfugl over December-February last winter in an attached,
uninsulated single-car garage, with less-then-perfectly-fitting double
doors (some draught under these, especially when the pedestrian access
door at the other end was opened.)

I reckon the secret is not to let the place cool, so that your heater has to raise the temperature. I found a 2 kw thermostatic convector heater kept the place at c 20 degrees C fairly consistently, despite frosts, provided I left it switched on (for three months )-: and didn't have the door open for any significant time. With your bigger space, you'll probably have a slightly
bigger surface area to lose heat through, but I think the real key is to
prevent draughts. Don't be so obsessive that you are overcome by fumes though!

Unfortunately, that garage isn't long enough for an adult-sized kayak. Does anyone have good ideas for a heat-retaining structure to go inside a huge barn? I had in mind a wooden frame covered in two skins of thin plywood, but this looks as though it is going to be prohibitively expensive ....

Andy

Messages In This Thread

Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/16/2002, 1:37 am
A wood burning stove eliminates your waste wood
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/19/2002, 5:13 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Tom -- 11/18/2002, 11:20 am
one caution to think about
Bruce Haugen -- 11/17/2002, 2:50 pm
Re: one caution to think about
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/18/2002, 12:13 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Chip Sandresky -- 11/17/2002, 10:32 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/17/2002, 1:44 pm
Re: Shop: A convert... :)
Rehd -- 11/17/2002, 3:34 pm
Heating and moisture
Pascal, in Chile -- 11/17/2002, 9:21 pm
Re: Shop: Build a tent inside.
Rehd -- 11/16/2002, 10:56 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options *LINK*
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/16/2002, 3:56 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Rick Allnutt -- 11/16/2002, 9:37 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Mike Scarborough -- 11/16/2002, 2:19 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Used Electic Furnace
Pete Roszyk -- 11/16/2002, 1:26 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
greg root -- 11/16/2002, 9:50 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options *Pic*
Rick Allnutt -- 11/16/2002, 9:47 am
Kerosene pro's and con's
Brian Nystrom -- 11/18/2002, 1:27 pm
Re: I would second that
Ron Hagedorn -- 11/16/2002, 12:31 pm
Finding Kerosene
Rick Allnutt -- 11/16/2002, 1:20 pm
Re: Finding Kerosene
Brian Nystrom -- 11/18/2002, 1:34 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Andy Waddington -- 11/16/2002, 4:31 am
Re: Shop: Break-down walls and tarp roof.
Rehd -- 11/16/2002, 10:46 pm