Re: [ihc] Shops

["Jim or Ginger Aos" <jaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@domain.elided>
To: "Jim or Ginger Aos" <jaos@domain.elided>
Cc: <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:51 AM
Subject: [ihc] Shops


> 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 thought that I was in the warmer part of the north U. S. not counting the
Puget Sound.  We are susposed to be in the thawing mode by Thursday or
Friday.  Jim A.
>
> 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..