[ihc] Shops

[Tom Mandera <tsm1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim or Ginger Aos wrote:

> > John Stricker says that 60 X 60 is minimum size for your new shop. Radiant
> > floor heating and 18 inches of insulation too, please.
60x60 would be OK.  I think I have a line on some cheap 40' trusses 
though (IIRC), but only enough to do 30x40.. which is still bigger than 
the 34x28 I'm finishing right now.


> > At 34 degrees above 0 in my shop with a heater on, I had to come in
> > yesterday because I was too cold to work.
> It's warmer today.  Two degrees above zero with a wind chill of sixteen
> below zero.  Some day I might build a nice, warm, dry, cool in summer place
> to work,  if I have time.  Or I could continue to procrastinate, and it's
> nice and warm in the house.
It's a balmy -21 outside right now - WITHOUT mentioning windchill.

I think I might wait and hang the 200k BTU Reznor suspended heater in my 
shop until tomorrow night, when it's supposed to be above 0F.

Really trying to get the heater hung and the flue installed before this 
coming weekend, when I hope to have a sheetrock party.

The attic will be insulated to R-50 sometime this summer.  Walls were 
sprayed with Corbond to R-21 on our last warm day of Indian Summer..

Now to just get the drywall up and finish the wiring, paint, add 
shelves, and then start trucking all of my junk.. er.. rare and valuable 
IH parts and tools over from the shop at mom's house..