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XJ&CHZ4ME said:
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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That heater works like a Champ......when the gas is turned on! :D
 
26 this morning on the way to the store. Might have to plug the truck in tonight. I think I have a couple glow plugs not working to their potential.

I hope it stays cold for WF. I've had enough hot temperatures the last 3 years for a lifetime.
 
cold is fine with me, frigid is a different story. I am good down to about 15, anything below that I really have to keep moving to keep from hurting (or keep close to the fire w/ plenty of booze or half naked women). A cold WF is fine by me, and cold enough to freeze the mud if there is any :D
 
Anything is better than where I've been. There was a 60 degree swing when I flew home. It was 100* in Jordan and 22 hours later it was 40* at home.

Just don't want to be the first one to break the ice on MI on Friday :)
 
Its cold here. 18* this morning. First time all winter we have had a sheet of ice on the lake. Its not all the way across but a thin sheet over about 3/4 of the lake. Ive been in mood for ice fishing all winter and we have yet to have any ice. Its bad enough that I have considered a trip to my uncles in Minog Wi. next winter. Havent been in years.
 
It was in the 60s here yesterday I think. Very comfortable.

Then it dropped into the single digits overnight and is now in the mid 20s. :shiver:
 
ready for power to go out...

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electric start baby!!!!





1/3 of what I sold the bounder for :rolleyes:
 
11* here this morning... I can't wait to get back to La Crosse for my 2-day marathon of wrenching in my 'rents unheated garage...

Stopping at a couple places before work today to look at propane heaters...
 
XJ&CHZ4ME said:
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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Nice :)

A drain would be nice.

When it rains hard, the neighbor's rain comes down the driveway and into the garage. Since there was a ditch on the other side of the road before they moved in, this was never an issue before. That's been going on 17 years. I usually just shop vac it up, but I've been thinking of drilling a drain hole in the foundation. Going after the neighbor didn't solve anything; they are dumb as a box of broken sex toys and just about as cooperative.

I dealt with both Kerosene and LP salamanders. Kerosene would absorb water and was hard to come by in the city and I would feel crappy at the end of the day.. The LP worked OK, but I would feel crappy at the end of the day. Years back a work buddy took out his old furnace and put it on the curb. I asked him what was wrong with it, and he told me that it was just "inefficient". Well, I took it home and adjusted the jet size for LP, built a hat for the plenum, and piped the exhaust out the window. I run it off a 20LB bottle so the city can't claim it is permanent. Seems to take the chill off OK, and it was free.
 
When Deb & I first looked at this house & lot 3 years ago, I could already see that the concrete slab leading to the detached garage sloped downhill to it. Over the first year, rain ran in pretty regularly, and during the first spring thaw, over a third of the garage floor was covered. I hired a local contractor to cut out 12" at the lowest point, and run a drain around the garage. *WELL* worth every single penny (they used a half a yard of concrete from another job around the corner, from a high compression parking lot,) it's been dry every since.
 
I can see were that would be a big advantage!

Spring can be a PITA also. I remember walking away from a project for a few days, and coming back to find my tools under a 1/4" of ice ;)

Another thought that came to mind was to re-pour the entire floor. It was poorly poured in the 1st place. I could easily add 1" of height and get the floor level, and take care of both issues.

Of course that would take time and money ;)

Speaking of time and money, my GF has a house with a 2 bay attached garage. I think it would be really neat to put an attachment on the side, like a whole other bay to use as a shop and Jeep storage. Not sure if the zoning would agree, but it would be cool. I wounder what a contractor would hit me for that?
 
I'll bet there's a 6" elevation change from the slab past the house to the detached garage. Pouring a new floor, or mudjacking the whole would be a major job, and only cover part of the problem. It still surprises me that it was built this way, water had to be a major problem over the years.
 
Oh, sorry, I meant mine was that way.

It's funny the things that people do to their houses that the next owner just shakes their head about.

When I moved in (in a January), there was water leaking from the chimney access door. I put a sponge in the access door and was collecting about a quart or more a day. Any ideas?

Here's what happened:
The place was heated with oil before, and had a stone chimney with an access door for cleaning. Well, the old girl must have croaked, so they installed a more modern furnace, a new for the time 90% efficiency furnace. Now back then, the stack temp on the furnace was still a balmy 150deg and it looked exactly like a conventional furnace, so they pipped it to the stone chimney with no liner or anything.

At the time, it made sense, but it ate the floor, and the chimney.
 
Getting my house ready to sell sucks!
I just put in the tile back splash and new kitchen light my wife has been bugging me to do for three years.
I guess in a few months she can start bugging me to do it all over again...
 
You guys make me really appreciate my current garage...

mac 'never let it get below 50' gyvr
 
Well, anyone want a subaru? Pretty sure the headgaskets are bad so if they are its gone and i'll find another subaru without the crappy motor! :(


Good thing I bought them wheels :rolleyes:
 
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