As warm as I want. Had a natural gas heater installed on the ceiling when it was built. Just had a shop add a mini split system to cool it down in the summer. Spend a good deal of time in it so want to be comfortable.
Warm as I need it. Throw in another log. When the temperature drops to 31 degrees, the natural gas comes on and brings it to 45 degrees, then shuts off. Keeps things from freezing,when we are traveling. Costs about two hundred in gas on the average each year. plus I usually cut two cord a year, for the garage. This year I got another cord, from a broke kid, for 110$. I would have given him more, but thats all I had, when he came by the house. Hardest working young kid in the neighborhood.
Don't youse guys wish you lived in the sunny land of fruits and nuts? 10:10 PST, 80 deg house, 28 deg outdoor ambient, shop estimated 27 deg...I am a frugal man, look at all the money I saved by not insulating. Grin. On a more serious note, do you fellas that have lathes, mills etc in an ice cold shop...you have any tips to share? If I had any projects today, I would have fired up the barrel stove out there about 7 am...and stove wuffing and puffing the shop would be in the 50's by 9am but the machines would still be ice cold. One thing I see is condensation wants to collect on the machines as the shop warms up...I have to use Fluid Film like most folks use toothpaste.
I have an Ashley wood stove in the shop and when I working out of it I keep it 55°-60°
I have a doggie door for the shop so the outside critters can come and go as they please. Once the weather drops to freezing and below I always keep a fire going for the animals to warm themselves.
A thin mist of Diesel fuel from a spritz bottle will keep most machine tools from rusting, and it's a lot less expensive than other rust inhibitors. 5 minutes with a shop towel before using the machine cleans up the handwheels enough to get a good grip on them.
I keep mine at 60 or a little under. Don't like sweating if i am welding or working on something. It has a heated concrete slab which keeps things pretty consistent.
Is 80 degrees outside, Feels like 85 with humidity League City Texas. My insulated garage/shop should be mid 70’s. Just a guess but probably pretty close. If it gets hot I turn on the mini split, if it gets cold Tuen on the mini split. It’s a heat pump.
Don't youse guys wish you lived in the sunny land of fruits and nuts? 10:10 PST, 80 deg house, 28 deg outdoor ambient, shop estimated 27 deg...I am a frugal man, look at all the money I saved by not insulating. Grin. On a more serious note, do you fellas that have lathes, mills etc in an ice cold shop...you have any tips to share? If I had any projects today, I would have fired up the barrel stove out there about 7 am...and stove wuffing and puffing the shop would be in the 50's by 9am but the machines would still be ice cold. One thing I see is condensation wants to collect on the machines as the shop warms up...I have to use Fluid Film like most folks use toothpaste.
One of the reasons to keep miine from freezing, is to keep the mill and lathe, semi warm. Try iron clad spray from zep, if the machines set for any extended time period! Protects very well, but doesn't wipe off as easy as oily type products. I believe our weather is quite similar.
It's not - just gets a bit chilly on winter AMs. Small electric coil heater with fan in the smaller shop area, and a propane dish going gently near me if out in the big space.
My official hq shop gas heat run 68 degree non stop all winter I use 1/3rd of it.My home shop no heat I got offered $500k for the official hq and been thinking about a backyard hq😉
Whatever is ambient temp minus wind chill + contributing wood stove. 60x30 1815 era Post & Beam barn with a concrete floor is my shop. Great until it’s not then I just do other things.
Single digits at the moment. Wish it’d got colder quicker. Was gonna let the deer hang a couple days longer. But I ain’t gonna bitch about our fall. It was really nice.
I use the old barns for most shop work out of the weather, they be cold this time of year. The garage here has most of my tools and a workbench for repairs. I open the door to the basement and allow the heat from woodstove to take the chill off. I get by just fine that way!
House is lower 60's. I keep my 4800+sf shop at around 60* in the winter with LP. Wood furnace gets fired up most days in the winter. It's also air conditioned so rarely over 70* in the summer. I spend 12-16 hours a day in my shop so it's nice to be comfortable.