Best $100 I have spent

[TB Roye]

Today it is 103F outside and extremly smokey again. Tomorrow it is supposed to be 107F and stay hot the rest of the week. A good old Northern Calif. heat wave. Last week I installed and 5000BTU window AC unit in my 10 X12 insualated Shop and today the cost paid off. Got it at Home Depot for $99+ tax. At 6:30pm PDT it was 103F out and 75.6 inside the shop. My Grandaughter and I spent most of the day in the shop and it was nice. Tomorrow morning I am going to bring a old display case I have been trying to refinish in from the garage and work on it in the shop. Last week while testing it in very warm conditions I decided to close off the entrance to the storage loft and doing that made a difference in how cool it is in the lower part of the shop by about 7deg F. Now maybe I will get something done. When I worked it was in a shop that could get to 109F inside while it was 110 outside but since I retired I do not care to do that any more. I want a warm shop in the winter and a cool shop in the summer. The may not be a tool gloat but it is a gloat anyway.

Tom

[Alex Franke]

Awesome... Every summer I think about getting something to help cool down my uninsulated garage/shop... I wonder how a unit like this would hold up...

Any ideas on how to warm up the shop in the winter?

[TB Roye]

I have a little radiator style heater for my shop. I have it set to come on at 6am and stay on for about 8 hours at 65 degF but Sacramento has mild winters where doesn't get to cold. Don't know how it would do in the low 30's or 20's. As I said my shop is 10 X 12 and is fully insulated including the ceiling above the loft. All I did was add some cleats and some 1/4" MDF panels to close off the loft, which may help this winter with the heat. My garage has 3 insulated wall but the door and ceiling are not insulated so i don't work out there to much in the winter. MY BT3, Planer, jointer and miter are kept in the garage and everything else is done in the shop wihich has the bandsaw, drill press, router table and two work benches. I also have 9 X 9 deck outside the shop so I can put stuff out there if I need the room in the shop.

Tom

[dlminehart]

I'd like an AC in my upstairs study, where it's been about 100 the past couple days. Problem: windows are the slider sort. Hard to insert an AC unit. And central AC is about $3000 . . . guess I'll aim the fan my direction.

[TB Roye]

The window in my shop was a slider. Took out the slider part. removed the center brace and remove the fixed window and install the AC with plywood filler on the top. will post pictures tomorrow. Took about an hour.

Tom

[jackellis]

The outside thermometer showed a high of around 90 up this way (mid-Peninsula). The morning low inside was 66 and the high was 77 - this with no A/C. If I can cool the house down at night, it stays cool most of the day.

The shop is another matter but I did some work out there this evening and it wasn't too awfully warm.

The new shop will have heat in winter and it should stay nice and cool all by itself in summer. 14 months to go for that!

[just started]

I'd like an AC in my upstairs study, where it's been about 100 the past couple days. Problem: windows are the slider sort. Hard to insert an AC unit. And central AC is about $3000 . . . guess I'll aim the fan my direction.

There are some window units made for sliders and casements, they come with a filler panel for the top. As long as it's just 1 not too large room they work fairly well.

[just started]

Awesome... Every summer I think about getting something to help cool down my uninsulated garage/shop... I wonder how a unit like this would hold up...

Any ideas on how to warm up the shop in the winter?

The safest way to go is an oil-filled radiator or a ceramic cube, maybe both depending on the size and insulation in your shop and how cold it gets.