How to build a shop that you can HEAT ECONOMICALLY. My shop is 40 50 with 17 foot ceiling. The key to heating is that even though the whole building is insulated, I have an insulated inner room that is 16x22x10. That is where I put my projects in the winter to do most of the work. Here is a pic of my 9000 in the inner room.
You can see my non-vented catalytic propane heater in front of the tractor. I keep the inner room at 50 and bump it to 60 when I go in. The heat that escapes from it keeps the main part above freezing on all but the coldest 3-4 nights a year. Here is my truck in front of it. I kept the truck inside all winter.
I keep my pick-up, three tractors, sometimes a car in the case of a storm, plus my current project in there pretty much all the time. I HEAT as described above
FOR AROUND $450 a year. Oh and I also have pallet racking and a mezzanine, and a forklift for getting pallets of stuff in.and out of upper storage.
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