So ... How hot has your shop been?

Nice and cool in my basement shop. Too bad I can’t spend some time in it. :\

-- You can collect dust or you can make dust. I choose to make it.

Gerry, I am in the same boat as you… I live next door to you in MI and I have the same problem with my shop, the attic is not yet insulated. I have also found the shop temp to be even hotter then the outside. Even with the garage door open and fans going I just cant seem to cool it down in there… I have been toughing it out as best as I can but when its no fun being uncomfortable in the shop…

-- Dan - "Collector of Hand Planes"

22X28 shop, 11 or 12 3X5 windows, single glazed. 104° outside, 72° at 16:00 inside.

Central air is a wonderful invention.

<,>.<.>, (That was me rubbing it in).

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!

I live in NC and my shop is my unfinished two-car garage. Morning starts at 85F and I give up ten degress later in the afternoon. The biggest problem is sweat dripping on the cast iron of my tools.

My shop is hotter than out side the shop!! I live in GA and its very humid here! Thankfuly that my 10,000 BTU air conditioner that I bought is coming tomorrow!!

96 degrees inside yesterday in the shop. Fan and squirrel fan moving hot air. 72 percent humidity. It pretty muck sucked. But all shop time is good time. :-)

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. - OldTools Archive -

I turn my A/C on.
I keep my shop around 74/76
That simple

-- Bert

inside my shop today

-- My theroy in wood working will be. If I'm not enjoying doing it i won't do it.

while it was 118 on my back deck yesterday, it was about 80 and pretty comfy in my shop. I likes my ac in me shop.. thnkful for electric service

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Keep your dust collector fed. [email protected]

Hot? not so sure I’d call it hot the complete opposite, a whopping 70 degrees in my shop and as some have already mentioned I have an AC in mine to grins big, 8K BTU window unit and I keep it on 70 for the simple fact that the DC is located in a seperate room outside the shop with a window port between shop and room for the wart, it draws the cold out and sucks heat in through the hidden cracks in the shop.

-- Randy - If I'm not on LJ's then I'm making Saw Dust. Please feel free to visit my store location at http://www.facebook.com/randy.blackstock.custom.wood.designs

I considered putting AC into the new shop, but ruled it out. We get cool breezes off the bay, and our average daytime high temps in July (the warmest month of the year) is only 81 degrees.

—Gerry

-- Gerry -- "I don't plan to ever really grow up ... I'm just going to learn how to act in public!"

Neighbor bought a new AC. The one he had purchased was too big for his window. He asked if I would mount the new AC in the window. In exchange he’d give me the one that wouldn’t fit.
YES!
So, I have this big honkin AC in a 24×24 shop. Cool as i want.

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful.

The basement shop stays naturally cool at 72 degrees & dry with a dehumidifier!!! I should go down there more often.

-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow! If good things come to those who wait.... Why is procrastination a bad thing?

My shop is above the kitchen and is a secondary form of attic space with no insulation in the eves, 2 very tiny windows of which only 2 open and no insulation but lots of direct sunlight. The other day when it hit 98* here I tried going in the shop, I started sweating the moment I opened the door and was hit with a wave of heat. Half hour later my shirt was drenched and I was becoming dizzy from the heat. Had no choice but to give up, only thing I managed to do was make my first pen. Took three trips to the shop despite only taking a total of about an hour to make one.
The one upside is that the applewood I sliced up back in april that is stickered in my shop has to be practically dry with the last 2 weeks worth of heat.

-- A posse ad esse

My shop is the 2 car garage attached to the house. i recently gutted it and ran new wiring and insulated the walls. i did not yet however insulated the ceiling and with the 8,000 btu window a/c running it still didnt get below 90 degrees. this week is supposed to be cooler though. only get up to 90 outside.

-- In the end, when your life flashes before your eyes, will you like what you see?