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January 05, 2008
Staying Cozy in the ShopHappy New Year to you! I hope everyone made it through the holidays and by now have gotten back into the shop to start a new year's worth of projects. I for one am finishing up a set of bookcases. Theses will be going in our daughter's room to hopefully give her some more storage for her ever growing book stash (she inherited her mothers and mine love of books). I thought I'd give an update on how the temperature in the shop has been since the arctic blast of cold air came through this week. I'm glad to report that the Reflectix Insulation that I put on the garage doors have done a great job in keeping the shop comfortable. On days that the outside temperature was down into the low teens, my shop temperature was around 54 degrees. Now, 54 is not the ideal temperature for me, but, with my heaters turned on, I can quickly get the temperature up to a comfortable 62 degrees. The best thing about insulating the garage doors is that once I get the temperature up to where I want it, I can cut the heaters off and still maintain a constant temperature for quite some time. Before, I could get the temperature up, but I'd have to keep the heaters running all the time, just to maintain the temperature. If you haven't watched our video on insulating garage doors for your shop, you can view it here. Just as a side note, I wanted to let you know that I'm working on several new videos to put up on the site. These will be much shorter and be more related to tips and techniques. I'm still going to be doing some shop project videos in the future, but I thought you'd enjoy more videos coming out in a more timely manner (the longer videos really take me several days to put together). If you have some tips or techniques that you'd like to share, send them to me and maybe I'll make a video of it. Or, if you have a request of something you'd like to see, send those along as well. Craig |
Comments (4)
Thanks for the update. Just the other day I was thinking about sending an email to find out how it was doing now that winter is really here.
I too work in a garage. All the walls and the ceiling are insulated, but I still have that big double car door made of metal that sucks heat.
I was thinking of using 2 layers of 1/2" foam. I was going to put the "cut offs" on the inside and only whole pieces on the outside to make it look better. I may still try that. Its pretty cheep to try.
Posted by David | January 11, 2008 11:31 AM
Posted on January 11, 2008 11:31
Thanks for the update. Just the other day I was thinking about sending an email to find out how it was doing now that winter is really here.
I too work in a garage. All the walls and the ceiling are insulated, but I still have that big double car door made of metal that sucks heat.
I was thinking of using 2 layers of 1/2" foam. I was going to put the "cut offs" on the inside and only whole pieces on the outside to make it look better. I may still try that. Its pretty cheep to try.
Posted by David | January 11, 2008 11:54 AM
Posted on January 11, 2008 11:54
Shop temperature this time of year does tend to run low. I've been wondering what is the safe cold temperature to work with metal tools, such as router bits, table saw, planer, etc.?
What temp puts too much brittle stress on metal tools?
Posted by Ken | January 28, 2008 2:14 PM
Posted on January 28, 2008 14:14
Ken,
What a great question. But I'm sorry to say that I don't have a good answer to your question. I found several articles on putting tools in liquid nitrogen and them becoming brittle to the point of breaking, but I could find a chart or anything like that for different metals becoming brittle at what temperature.
Here's an interesting article on the subject, but it still doesn't address your question.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99249.htm
I'll post it on the blog and see if anyone else can answer it.
-Craig
Posted by (WR) Craig Stevens | January 28, 2008 10:50 PM
Posted on January 28, 2008 22:50