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Old 10-17-2006, 03:13 AM
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Default Re: Shop/garage heating & cooling: what'd you go with?

I use a hotdawg forced air natural gas heater in my insulated 24x30 shop w/o any problems. I believe that it's 45,000 btu.I keep the shop at 60 degrees when I am not out there and can get it to 75 in about 15 to 20 minutes if I want.I used r-19 in the ceiling and r-13 in the walls and sheetrocked over it all so it's really pretty tight. Heater comes in many different sizes,mounts on the ceiling and cost me avout 450.00 with shipping.
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Old 10-17-2006, 04:00 AM
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Default Re: Shop/garage heating & cooling: what'd you go with?

I had a very similar set up in my old gargage...it`s a vertical wall unit at is only 17" wide and 5 feet tall...made to fit between the the standard wall studs...vents out the rear. 45,000 btu... worked great. I bought mine from Grainger Supply.

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I put a home furnace in my barn and its only 24x25...one thing you must keep in mind rob....if you are going to be working with fuel in there in the winter...you must double vent that sucker...intake air has to come from outside or you can make a nice kaboom.
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Old 10-17-2006, 04:22 AM
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I put a home furnace in my barn and its only 24x25...one thing you must keep in mind rob....if you are going to be working with fuel in there in the winter...you must double vent that sucker...intake air has to come from outside or you can make a nice kaboom.

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Old 10-17-2006, 09:49 PM
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I had a very similar set up in my old gargage...it`s a vertical wall unit at is only 17" wide and 5 feet tall...made to fit between the the standard wall studs...vents out the rear. 45,000 btu... worked great. I bought mine from Grainger Supply.

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Pretty much the same setup in mine.. Works like a charm.
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Default Re: Shop/garage heating & cooling: what'd you go with?

Rob,

I am building a garage as this is being written and I went with the 75,000 BTU Modine Hot Dawg unit running on Propane. Radiant was simply too complicated and expensive for my detached unit, and we don't plan to do AC, so this option made sense. Like many of the others who responded, we are putting in a ton of insultation and sheetrock to make sure it's a tight structure.

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Old 10-22-2006, 08:39 PM
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last advice..at least for out here, a guy wants to lay real heavy duty plastic on the ground prior to pouring the floor to hold back the moisture/cold from coming in that way..
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Old 10-23-2006, 06:58 AM
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Actually budnate, you are correct. We put several mil polly on the ground between the crushed stone/sand and the slab. We also put fiberboard around the perimeter of the foundation before pouring the slab so that expansion and contraction can happen in a controlled way. We also took the masonry saw and cut some lines into the slab so that there is less likely to be cracking later. Finally, we used 3,500 PSI cement and put a ton of rebar along the front end where the garage meets the driveway so that the beginning of the slab won't crack if a car sits there.

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Old 10-23-2006, 07:20 AM
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I dont cut my floors we rebar wall to wall with 5/8 rod...back breakin pain in the a$$ work.... but ya never know when a guy might score a Sherman Tank and want to bring it home, I dont want the shop floor cracking under a fellas new toy...at least that's what Dad said when I complained about all the drilling...
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I wish I would have been on here last year because I do HVAC work and have had the chance to install the apex tubing in sub floors. Stuff works like a charm when the system is installed correctly. Yes, it is costly but you won't be disappointed when you are on a warm floor!
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