If you can't or don't want to afford the cost of sheetrocking, you can
get partial insulation benefits by putting up large poly sheets on the
ceiling (most important) and on the walls. These will trap heat in
the garage work area, but won't cost an arm and a leg. Of course,
if you use grinders, torches, welders, etc, you have to be careful
about flying (hot) metal bits.....
Chris
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From: shop-talk-owner[SMTP:shop-talk-owner@triumph.cs.utah.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 30, 1996 11:29 AM
To: Richard George x 7247 (sun); John T. Blair
Cc: W. R. Gibbons; shop-talk
Subject: Re: Mini-garage...
This all brings up the issue of the value of a shop when buying/selling a
house,
something I'd rather not contemplate at the moment, but circumstances at
least
force me to look at, though not necessarily follow though on.
We bought a super house (at least we liked it...) in rural NY. 7 years
old (9
now), ~acre of land, 30x36 3 bay shop. Great place, great workspace. The
shop
is
not heated or insulated, but some fiberglass insulation and sheetrock
would
solve 1/2 of that problem rather swiftly. Heat we can cope with on an as
needed
basis.
But doing the insulation & sheetrock is going to cost a heafty chunk of
change
that could be really well spent on the racing budget. I figure it'll be
somewhere in the neighborhood of $1200 to insulate & rock the place.
That's
$1200 I'll never see again, as it certainly doesn't raise the value of
the
house
any, and we're in a badly depressed market.
I've been looking at houses in the market my erstwhile employer wants me
to
relocate to (Tampa, Fl) and I'd be lucky to get a similar sized house on
a
postage stamp lot, 10 feet from the neighbors for $50K more than I paid
for
this
one... Never mind doing without the shop. Or I could buy an old place
outside
of
town, which in the south, comes with a whole host of attendant problems
I'd
rather not cope with. That or rent a warehouse someplace.
As such, I'm kinda resigned to the fact that the hobby I have chosen has
certain
financial *AND* lifestyle compromises. Picking up and moving easily is
NOT
one
of them, at least not without divesting myself of many of the things I do
to
relax and enjoy myself. So, what to do? Kick back, pass up on the Big
Time,
go
out to the garage and wrench on a beer. My great aunt is probably rolling
in
her
grave, but tough, it's time to pay the price of admission.
Boy has this one gotten off of the topic....
To bring it back, shop space is a compromise. I bought a house that
included
it.
The last place I used ever square inch of an otherwise servicable 2 car
garage.
In either case, something had to be given up to get there.
Anyone know of a good source for waste oil furnaces?
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