littleboss
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I have a barn in southern CO that looks like this.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/191743056@N03/shares/j26Z76
In the winter temps frequently get to the single digits at nite
40 x40 with 10' w x 12' tall uninsulated doors in the center section on each end. One side has a 10x10 uninsulated door. Above the center doors there is about 6' of extra space. My plan here is to run joists across and make storage above or just add a ceiling above the doors so I don't have to heat that area.
I want to insulate it and will heat it with a combination of wood heat, kerosene torpedo heater and in the future a propane shop heater.
So my questions are:
Would you insulate and heat the whole shop? My thought was to build a wall down one side and only heat the center section and one side 27 x40' and leave the other section with the smaller roll up door ( 13 x 40) uninsulated for storage. Having said that I could leave out that wall (saving the cost of the studs and OSB and just insulate the outside wall and have a 40 x40 shop. Do I save enough on the price of the studs and OSB to make up the difference in heating costs?
In the sides of the shop, would you just spray foam underneath the tin or put in some kind of drop down ceiling and insulate above?
What about the roll up doors? The two large doors will really let the cool in? Anyway to insulate them? Hang some kind of curtain over them? Worth replacing them with insulated doors? If I do that reduce the size of one of them to 10' tall?
Thoughts and suggestions? Thankks
https://www.flickr.com/photos/191743056@N03/shares/j26Z76
In the winter temps frequently get to the single digits at nite
40 x40 with 10' w x 12' tall uninsulated doors in the center section on each end. One side has a 10x10 uninsulated door. Above the center doors there is about 6' of extra space. My plan here is to run joists across and make storage above or just add a ceiling above the doors so I don't have to heat that area.
I want to insulate it and will heat it with a combination of wood heat, kerosene torpedo heater and in the future a propane shop heater.
So my questions are:
Would you insulate and heat the whole shop? My thought was to build a wall down one side and only heat the center section and one side 27 x40' and leave the other section with the smaller roll up door ( 13 x 40) uninsulated for storage. Having said that I could leave out that wall (saving the cost of the studs and OSB and just insulate the outside wall and have a 40 x40 shop. Do I save enough on the price of the studs and OSB to make up the difference in heating costs?
In the sides of the shop, would you just spray foam underneath the tin or put in some kind of drop down ceiling and insulate above?
What about the roll up doors? The two large doors will really let the cool in? Anyway to insulate them? Hang some kind of curtain over them? Worth replacing them with insulated doors? If I do that reduce the size of one of them to 10' tall?
Thoughts and suggestions? Thankks