HNY
Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience heating a large workshop? My workshop is around 1000 square feet at a guess and the roof is around 18 feet high,
obviously it gets a little chilly in the cold and is somewhat difficult / expensive to heat. I can obtain fire wood at a very resonable cost is it
worth building a log burner (from a gas bottle etc) to attempt to take the chill off the place or would it not be man enough for the job? Unfortunatly
the building is not insulated and I do not own is so investing in its insulation is not really something i want to do.
We did a good insulation job on a similar sized work shop using bubble wrap, a layer over the windows, and also a layer suspended across the roof
space to make a false ceiling, seemed to help a lot. NOT ideal if you're welding or using the angry grinder!!
HNY
If the roof is 18 feet high you need to build a shed in your workshop.
I had the same issues, 1000sqft unit in the soggy SW, same high ceiling.
What didn't work was a propane heater, either the fan driven space heaters nor the infra-red static type. While providing heat, they simply
pumped water laden warm air onto cold surfaces. The SW was wet enough, without all thye damp induced by this.
I ended up with infra red electric heaters around the walls, I guess about 10 feet high or so. Felt like the tropics, the electricity bill was
frightening, but it was lovely. Really lovely. I added a couple of 1000W halogen floodlights too, just above the main work area. With the roller
shutter open, probably visible from space.
Thing is, everything's relative. Domestically, I had a choice of electricity, oil or LPG (no piped gas). It didn't cost anymore to heat the
house than it did the industrial unit.
buy a thermal/quilted boiler suit £35 wear another pair of socks and buy some of those thin mechanics gloves.
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Originally posted by Talon Motorsport
buy a thermal/quilted boiler suit £35 wear another pair of socks and buy some of those thin mechanics gloves.