how do you keep your shop cool?

Well??

 

I use a fan when I have to door up and a window AC unit when I know I will be keeping it closed up. Its actually on right now cooling it down so I can go clean up in there.

 

The first thing you do is put cool things in the garage. a gas pump, a rod or custom. maybe a flathead or hemi motor. neat posters maybe some old gas signs. You know stuff like that.

 

My shop is 24' x 48' pole barn construction with metal lined walls & ceiling. 12" insulation above the ceiling and 6" in the walls.

I keep all doors/windows closed and use a pedastal (sp) fan on a fairly lowpeed just to circulate the air. Never gets above 80 degrees even if it's 95 outside.

 

With 5 tons of AC. Only way to do it in Texas and winter time 175,000 BTU's heat. Had enough time in a hot shop for a life time and no more!

 

I put a side draft evap cooler on a rolling base. Works great as long as there's no humidity.

 

install a 8'X8'X16' oven and powder coat all day.
then it's always cooler outside, and you don't have to worry about cooling the shop

 

Work at night in the nude

 

Beer!

 

BFF. Big Fuckin' Fan.

 

Our shop is the only one like it for 1000's of miles

It's cool just being here

 

Open the doors, crank the floor fan and let the hot breezes through! The old-fashioned way!

But, with my sheer presence there, it is always cool!

 

I use fans ! I have one I use on me when grinding and stuff like that . The only time I don't want to use any fan at all is when I am painting anything or rebuilding an engine . Don't need the damn dirt flying all over the place !

 

My shop/garage is a 22' X 24' "pole building"; metal sides and roof, 2 roll up doors, a side door, and 1 window. I keep saying I'm going to insulate and install interior walls, but it's been 18 years since it was built. It's COLD in the winter and HOT in the summer!!! I use small space heaters and a big fan, it helps some, but I really need to insulate it. But, it's "cool" anyway. Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Up here I take the day off.

Actually I have a 15,000 btu AC unit, R13 insulation, and a dehumidifier all in a 24x24. Heat on the other hand, which is 9 months of the year here, was a woodstove w/forced air until the ins. co. told me to remove it. So now it will go outside and ducts will do the work.

PS: As I am Scandinavian, I hate heat. Anything above 80 just plain sux.

 

I work in the 2 car garage and it is usually hot no matter what, but the other evening I propped the door to the house open into the garage and had the overhead door shut and I stuck a fan in the doorway blowing in cooler Air conditioned air from inside the house into the garage and it felt great!

Normally just a fan and I am doing a lot of welding, so I'm in long sleeves and have to turn off the fan so it doesn't mess with the shielding gas. HOT!

 

I have a cardboard cutout of the Fonz. What's cooler than that?

 

When buying your property, get some slope.
Get the bulldozer man to make the flat spot for your slab so that the slab is about 100 feet from the edge.
Dig ditches from the slab about 5 to 8 feet deep to the edge of the slope.
Lay pipe; plastic, fibreglas or metal embedded in sand in each ditch. No concrete.
The pipes angle down to allow condensate to run out the intakes
12" to 16" pipe are the best sizes.
The open end of the pipes is your air intake, screen these off to keep out bugs, snakes, and mountain lions.
You will need outlets in the roof to allow 'chimney effect' to draw air in the intakes and out the roof.
For increased air flow, you may like solar powered attic fans.
The air drawn thru the earthtubes will be tempered by the temperature of the earth, which is 54 to 58 degrees across much of America.
In the summertime, 58 degrees will help cool your building.
In the wintertime 58 degrees is almost warm and will cut down the cost of heating.
Obviously these ideas will not work in places like Arizona, Florida and South Texas.
The PVC pipes and elbows cost about $5000 which is comparable with installing ordinary Air Conditioning.

The hugh difference is that after installation, Earthtube cooling is FREE.
No more $200 electric bills

This is an idea, google for more.
Go here
http://mb-soft.com/solar/saving.html

 

I got most of that stuff and my shop is still freakin HOT! What gives

 

Mountain lions LMFAO. Now thats some funny shit.

 

No problem keeping my workshop cool,I'm in Scotland ,it's almost always fuckin' cool.When it's not fuckin' cool,it's fuckin' freezing!

 

Fans,,,, I have no insulation barrier so my shops roof radiates heat..... its like an oven and its way too big and old to even think about anything more than fans

 

put up a building with 6" walls and have a R 31 value and R 50 in the ceiling. keep it closed up and it never gets over 75 degrees inside. also it's winterlike 5-6 months out of the year so when it finally gets nice and hot out i don't bitch, actually look forward to it. my .002 cents

 

exactly what I was thinking as well. I bake my ass off and then when I come out if the room into the shop, the heat there isn't so bad after all

 

find A girl like mine that digs ya when your hot sweaty and dirty and then ya really dont mind!!!! ohhh and a door on your office !!!!!!!!

spoken straight from her mouth!!

 

Just like my house. No AC running. A complete 180 from the trailer we used to live in, lol.

Insulation goes a long way.

 

I don't. Its hot as hell out there now.95 in Alabama is normal.I just learn to live with it.Good way to lose weight in the summer.I would rather have the high heat and humidity than the cold some of you other guys suffer with though.

 

drink P B R !!!

 

Six inches of insulation in the walls, 14 inches in the ceiling, big-ass window air conditioner. But only run it a few weeks a year. I live out in the country on top of a hill, there's always a breeze to cool things off. Good in the summer, bad in the winter. The shop cooling option a friend told me about is a reefer unit off a semi trailer. If it can keep a trailer below freezing it could do some serious cooling in a shop. Just hang it on the wall...

 

Having spent many years working in a tiny swealtering garrage with no insulation and exposed rafter ceiling I tried using a window fan,,,really not much help,,,it was HOT!

When I built my new shop several years ago,,I installed insulation to the max,,I used thermal windows and heavy insulated roll up doors.

I hung sheet rock and caulked every crack I could find and installed a 3 ton heat and air unit.

I built the shop to work in hot or cold,,and believe me the initial cost was more than I wanted to spend but now I am glad I did it,,,it hit 99 degrees here yesterday and the shop stayed a comfortable 74 degrees all day long.

I think you can make more progress without stinging sweat dripping in your eyes and just having pleasent working conditions,,HRP