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I'm rather surprised at how little heat my detached garage takes to be comfortable when it's only about 10 degrees outside. It was quite comfortable changing the harmonic balancer today. The old one had started to grove the timing case cover, before much longer, I'd have had a much larger problem to deal with.
 
altrocker1 said:
well my real name is justin, but people call me beebs

ha...im not in a band...

oh wait...actually i am again, but we aren't ready for shows yet. im a sound engineer so i spend part of the year doing theatre shows around the country and corporate sound gigs in iowa, new york city and chicago. i do a lot of shows/concerts from may till october and the last few years people haven't been spending a lot of money on entertainment so its been rough. this year is already looking great, which means a lot of sleepless weekends...but a lot of weekdays working on the xj and putting the boat on the lake.

so the next time you are at a concert in the midwest and you see this guy behind the sound board:

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be afraid...very afraid
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That's cool! I wanted to go to school for sound engineering, but never made it. Now I play with trains.
 
One would think that an arrow on a crankshaft pulley would line up with the line on the timing belt, right? Nope.......its 90 degrees off. Round 2 tomorrow.......thanks SUBARU!
 
ChiXJeff said:
I'm rather surprised at how little heat my detached garage takes to be comfortable when it's only about 10 degrees outside. It was quite comfortable changing the harmonic balancer today. The old one had started to grove the timing case cover, before much longer, I'd have had a much larger problem to deal with.
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A lot of that has to do with wind, I think. You'd be surprised just how little wind it takes to really make things uncomfortable when you're out in the open...

I finished my "garage" today, it is a 2x4 and 4x4 frame 12x12 with about an 8 foot ceiling level, with 6 mil poly sheeting stapled over it :gee: super hacktastic but will keep most of the rain and snow off of me this winter while I work on the jeeps. I think I can even get the 5-ton into it far enough to work on the motor, I'll have to pull the hood before driving it in though.

And now it's time to sit back with a beer and listen to some music...
So far:
5fdp - hard to see
Poets of the Fall - lift
Dope - Debonair

Pandora knows me pretty well :viking:
 
It's a roughly 24'x24' with a 8' ceiling. 1 man door, 1 garage door, and a single 1'x3' window on the east wall. Walls, ceiling & man door are fully insulated, the garage door is not. It's actually fairly well protected from the wind. There's a 30A electric heater hanging from the ceiling. I turned it on last night, fairly low, and while it wasn't quite t-shirt comfortable, it was quite comfortable with a light jacket. This morning when I got up, it was 4 degrees above zero.

I just have a boom box tuned to a Twin Cities rock station. Pretty uncommon that I don't like what they're playing.
 
-6 this AM. Wood boiler cooking away and the 30x30 double truss garage with 12 foot end walls and two 8' high doors was also at -6.

Why?

Because insulating this beast is going to cost me almost $4k, and when I only received a 2% raise in 4 years after a total of 22% pay cut prior to then makes doing anything to the garage a low priority.

I heat with a regular wood burner but it barely takes the chill out in the
garage.


Looking at possibly leaving my Fiancee whom I been with for almost 8 years due to her not getting a job and the fact that she does not even try to get a job. :badpc:


Sorry for venting.
 
Kastein, that's one interesting garage, but I bet it does the job! You're right, as soon as I popped into the garage, I felt warmer even though it was the same exact temp inside and out.

Jeepman

One of the cheapest things you can do to retain heat in a garage is to barrier off the useless truss area. I covered mine in plastic, which one day I will cover in something nice. It's been 18 years that way, so I'm not thinking real hard at that.

The walls on the North side I insulated and left exposed.

It helped a bunch.
 
jeepman, I got nothing as far as woman advice :gee:

What I can tell you is that you can probably insulate it yourself for WAY less than that. Hell, you could line that with R-15 for a few hundred bucks, a weekend worth of time, and a few boxes of staples.

I now have five hours into the construction of my "garage", and about 200 dollars. Well worth it to simply not get precipitated upon, IMO. I told the asbestos removal crew I'm probably hiring shortly to leave the house furnace behind (it's a steam / fuel oil system) so when they do their thing I'll probably haul the old furnace outside, connect it to the two radiators this house came equipped with, and run it off used motor oil and diesel fuel to heat the "garage" when I'm using it. The plan is to tear this "garage" down sometime next fall and put up a real one, but we'll see if that actually happens.
 
I insulated a 26x24 garage at my last house. I put a ceiling in, blew in insulation, then did the walls and put dry wall up. I did all the work myself and I think it was about $700 in supplies...that was 8 years ago or so.

Made it so you could run a kerosene heater and enjoy working in it. It was a detached.

mac 'I used to heat it up with a salamander, then hold it with kero' gyvr
 
My detached garage has an ancient propane furnace in the rear wall, and I suspect a hundred lb. bottle outside. I've never ran it, that was a previous owner. I've also got a small LP salamander heater. The more I think about it, I'll probably just live with the electric expense of the 30A electric heater, instead of an LP/propane furnace, I don't want the condensation problems (and I've got enough of those already.)
 
my Jeep shop (30x40) has the bubble unsulation on the walls and ceiling and I have 2 ceiling fans going, one pulling, one pushing. It has realy helped to pull teh truss area heat around. I use a ventless LP heater but have never had a condenstaion problem. The concrete floors had a vapor barrier installed before teh poured so I have never had a sweating floor. I am going to put a ceiling in it before too log, thinking a white tin ceiling so it retains the heat/AC and it will also help tremendously with the dispersing of the light in there. My BIG shop is gonna get some lovin this spring to the tune of new concretem a mid wall, all white tin inside, new lighting and floor drains. It is big enough I can get a few tractors or semis in there and I want one area to be set up with water and a good drain system so I can do more painting over there.
 
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