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awemawson:
Heated & well insulated workshop is essential if you want to play all day :thumbup: Down side is the running costs - just had the workshop oil tank topped up on Friday - 425 litres since August - the house only used 500 litres :scratch: Trouble is I have a roller shutter door that's probably 15 foot square and virtually impossible to insulate and yet still use so that is a huge thermal load. Rest of the building is very well insulated |
mattinker:
I'm getting a bit OT here for which I apologise! Andrew, I realise that your roller shutters are in use so my solution doesn't apply, but I found a source of free for collection high quality insulation panels to insulate my workshop. A friend of mine works as a salesman for a fridge truck body builder. When fridge trucks try to get through bridges that are too low, crunching the front, the entire roof and side sections have to be replaced. It costs them money to get rid of the stuff, 5cm thick high insulation foam sheathed with a skin of polyester and fibreglass on both sides. In some parts it even comes with a stainless facing and tie down points. I made my double doors (twice 4m x 2m )with a large "pop hole" door in one of them. They are hung on bearings, the doors themselves are clad with wood and are a total of six inches thick! So free to collect insulation, the only thing is I had to wait until the had a body to build! I cut the panels of the body to sizes that needed just a little trimming when I got them home. |
Joules:
Just walked out to the workshop here.... 1.3℃ lit stove and walked back into warm house and fired up CAD machine :( |
awemawson:
Well Matthew I did ask Penny if she fancied making some very heavy curtains to help insulate the roller shutter door, but I got a VERY old fashioned look in return :bugeye: I dropped the subject after that :lol: I have my oil fired central heating in the barn set to 7.5 deg C over night and 17 deg C during daytime. With our first fall of snow this year on the ground outside it hadn't managed to get to set point - sitting at 16 deg C :( |
awemawson:
--- Quote from: John Stevenson on January 16, 2016, 06:59:53 PM ---You need a decent heater in the shop. --- End quote --- Now we can all make a copy of your Chubb key John :lol: |
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