Hello, I am in the middle of finishing the inside of my garage. I have insulating and drywalling the walls. I will be running an outdoor wood burner(for insurance reasons) and was wondering about putting in a window ac unit. The garage is 36'x40' with 12' ceilings. Would a 1600sqft unit be big enough to cool? Thank you.
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Cooling my garage
- Thread starter mark_k
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sublime68charger
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Location and the high temp of when you want to cool and how much insulation in walls and ceiling? Any ceiling fans to circulate the air at all?
Also on the hot days is the shop closed up from the start of the day?
Or due you have to open a garage door to bring in car or truck that you want to work on?
Also on the hot days is the shop closed up from the start of the day?
Or due you have to open a garage door to bring in car or truck that you want to work on?
Dagny
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doors windows?
I have 2 garage doors on it. It has a side door and 2 windows, which I was thinking of putting the window unit in. I'm in Illinois, so it can get up to 100 in the summer. I have blown in insulation to an r19 value and blown in in the ceiling. It is the fluffy stuff, not the wet newspaper junk. Thank you.
Jagmandave
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I have a 600 sq ft garage with 8 ft ceilings, fairly well insulated as it's under the bedrooms on my split level house. I have a 220V 25K BTU window A/C unit to cool it - I'm in Kansas so we get similar weather as you.....that sized unit does a nice job in my garage but I really question whether it would do 1000 more sq ft......unless it ran all the time and you rarely opened the garage doors. Once you had the place down to temp and the humidity out it should do OK tho.....as long as you didn't have to open a garage door.
pattenp
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You're going to need a 28K to 30K BTU unit. You willing to spend $1000 or more for a window unit?
matt_i
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I really liked the "mobile home" unit - was a heat pump - I had in my house in Tennessee a few years back. Everything was self contained, it came charged with refrigerant, all I did was wire it up, hook up the two large ducts, seal the entry to the crawlspace, and it was chilly in there. I picked it up at a truck freight terminal and placed it with my tractor bucket on the concrete slab.
The duct work was not ideal for superfine distribution and its a large metal box outside of the house, but for simplicity and function, it was awesome. It got chilly as soon as I fired it up.
I think it was a 2ton or 3ton unit, forgetting the details now, but I just matched the old janky AC that it replaced.
The duct work was not ideal for superfine distribution and its a large metal box outside of the house, but for simplicity and function, it was awesome. It got chilly as soon as I fired it up.
I think it was a 2ton or 3ton unit, forgetting the details now, but I just matched the old janky AC that it replaced.