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My "to do" list includes monitoring temperatures at different heights at different room temperatures to determine just how valuable a ceiling fan would be.
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subscribed. doing something simular but 30x80. I was looking into spending big bucks on radiant floor heat and having some electriv water heaters as well as oil burner/diesel boiler for the shear size. i second the fan.
I would have loved floor heat, but needed a source that required no electricity.
That, and the whole pesky budget thingy!
Floor drain?
It's a lot cheaper and easier to rough in the electrical before you insulate. Are those scissor trusses 4/12-2/12? I put a Beacon Morris 75,000 btu vented propane heater in my shop. $400 at Menards. 500 gallon outside tank. You have a sharp looking building. If there are two things I am sure of, you can never make the shop too big and those little trees grow up to be big trees and they do have a habit of falling over. I know. I lost well over 200 last summer/fall $.02
Nice thread, first time I saw it.
It's a lot cheaper and easier to rough in the electrical before you insulate. Are those scissor trusses 4/12-2/12? I put a Beacon Morris 75,000 btu vented propane heater in my shop. $400 at Menards. 500 gallon outside tank. You have a sharp looking building. If there are two things I am sure of, you can never make the shop too big and those little trees grow up to be big trees and they do have a habit of falling over. I know. I lost well over 200 last summer/fall $.02
Nice thread, first time I saw it.
Thanks.
Yes, floor drain.
I don't know truss pitch.
Didn't want to take the time to think through the electrical at this point. I wanted the insulation done before winter.
I had this shed in mind when I planted the trees nearly 20 years ago.
It is nice and calm in front of shed when the northwest wind is howling!
Yes, floor drain.
I don't know truss pitch.
Didn't want to take the time to think through the electrical at this point. I wanted the insulation done before winter.
I had this shed in mind when I planted the trees nearly 20 years ago.
It is nice and calm in front of shed when the northwest wind is howling!
Wainscoting is corrugated galvanized, with a 2x6 ledge at 42"
Getting started on ceiling.
Carbon mono must rise.
Working on a ladder on top of the scaffolding up in the peak, eyes and nose burn like HELL!
Working on a ladder on top of the scaffolding up in the peak, eyes and nose burn like HELL!
I wouldn't put any more money into that shop with your taxes going up and all.
Frp the walls. White and bombproof. Cheap too. Only $33 a sheet. Spendy but cool.
Frp the walls. White and bombproof. Cheap too. Only $33 a sheet. Spendy but cool.
You are working off of an aluminum ladder on top of that bakers scaffold?
Project is looking great!
Project is looking great!
Nicely done man!!! tough to tell but did you insulate the exposed stem wall under the corrugated metal wainscot? might have a problem with heat loss or worse yet condensation. Nicely done though.
Thanks!
That was the purpose of the wainscoting, to conceal the stem wall insulation.
It would frost over when it got really cold.
Thanks for the compliment!
Waiting on materials, but when I finish the peak I'm gonna have to run electric heat from a generator.
I can't hardly take it anymore.
Maybe a few days off will clean out my system and rebuild my tolerance to it.
Gotta say that the dog LOVES laying under that heater though!
I will just give you my $.02 on your ladder/scaffold technique. A good friend of mine was on a 10' fiberglass step ladder standing 6' off the ground cutting a branch on a tree in front of his house, and the branch kicked back on him. He fell 6' and landed on the grass and severed his spine. He ended up being paralyzed from the waist down. He was two years away from retirement when he got hurt. He was 57 and was an electrician and had logged a million hours of ladder time in his life. Rent some scaffolding with some casters and some picks.
If you fall and hit the concrete, you are toast. It's not worth it man! Be safe!!!!
If you fall and hit the concrete, you are toast. It's not worth it man! Be safe!!!!
Thanks, I appreciate it.
More than once I was on the ladder thinking.....my wife's next husband better damn well appreciate all the work I'm putting into this!
More than once I was on the ladder thinking.....my wife's next husband better damn well appreciate all the work I'm putting into this!
Just an update...
Got power & nat gas last fall and vented furnace installed.
Used the hell out of this building this winter.
Best money spent thus far!
FWIW, Keeping it at 45 degrees costs about a buck a day.
Got power & nat gas last fall and vented furnace installed.
Used the hell out of this building this winter.
Best money spent thus far!
FWIW, Keeping it at 45 degrees costs about a buck a day.
