Recent content by Adesn

A few years ago I moved printers/cutters and computer equipment into an office in my house on the same property. The garage was in pretty bad shape when we purchased the property and we knew that it would need to be demo'd and rebuilt someday. Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies! I'm...

Sorry to hop on this thread guys, but I am planning a new shop in VT and deciding between a 4-6" insulated slab vs. full 4' frost wall and slab. My shop is also going to have 12' tall walls so I'm thinking the frost walls will help with the weight of the building. 65ranchero, are you saying...

The idea is to wire, insulate inside the bays, and then sheath the inside walls with plywood. Not 100% sold on this idea, but I have seen it done on a couple of other new buildings in the area. We are also not sheathing the roof, but just strapping the truss system and then screwing down the...

Should've mentioned we will be blowing in insulation as well, just not sure if we're going to get to it this year. Placing an IR tube over the work bench area would make sense to warm things up quickly, and they don't seem too crazy on the price.

No natural gas, will be going with propane as fuel. The old shop had propane through a hot air furnace with a plenum on top, routed through ductwork into two areas separated by a wall; a garage and office space. When working full-time in the shop it was fine, but after switching to part-time...

Hi all! First time poster, long-time lurker on this very informative forum. I am in the process of building a new 36' x 24' shop to house my "part-time" sign and graphics business. We are demoing the old building in a few weeks, and pouring a new slab with frost walls. The building will have...