Choice on Heating (and cooling) new shop

[Jakemedic]

Hello!
My concrete should be finished this week and I want to begin making decisions on my new woodworking shop. I have Natural Gas available and am planning on a Sterling separate combustion set up 60K BTU's. For cooling, I was thinking a through the wall AC at 24K. Then, I seen the Mini Spit. 24K BTU, for 1800.00. But here in Iowa, I question their abilities to heat my shop even with adequate insulation. So is my thinking, I will be best served by a natural gas heater with a through the window AC unit. Is my ideas correct? the shop will be 24x32 with 10' walls, well insulated of course. Thanks in advance, I appreciate your opinions!

 

[gogolf0401]

Hard to beat the price of NG. I wish I had it! That's what I would do..

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[Jakemedic]

Hard to beat the price of NG. I wish I had it! That's what I would do..

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Thank you! Switched electric stove and dryer to natural gas as soon as we moved in. Definitely more economical than electric. Was born and raised in MN. Not as snowy and cold here in the cornfields. But summers are definitely hot and humid.

 

[gogolf0401]

Ya MN boy myself. I heard the corn makes it more humid down there. No thanks. Planning to install a heat pump for the house this spring. Will see how that helps the heating bill.

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[Wrench97]

Ya MN boy myself. I heard the corn makes it more humid down there. No thanks. Planning to install a heat pump for the house this spring. Will see how that helps the heating bill.

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Geothermal? Regular heat pumps are not all that great here in southeastern Pa.
This winter would have been an exception but below 30f the backup(electric) was always coming on.