dlgWoodWork Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 I have a 12' × 20' garage. This is my woodshop. It is attached to the house, so one 20' wall is insulated. The back wall (12') and other side wall (20') are not insulated. The front 12' wall is mostly taken up by the non-insulated garage door. The door is about 9-10' wide. The ceiling is mostly uninsulated as well. Typical 12' × 20' one car garage. I live in Northeast Arkansas. Temps range from 100 in a hot summer to single digits on a nice January day. I want to be able to work in the shop year round comfortably. A few things I would like to do: Insulate the shop, including the ceiling insulate or replace garage door, this could include closing off the wall and putting in regular double doors add small electric (electric is only option available) heat/air unit maybe add wood floor to cover the concrete floor So my questions are: How much cost am I looking at? What size/type heat and air unit could I get? Have you done similar? Any other advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cancelleri Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 My garage is 17.5' x 22' I had 1 uninsulated wall, and a wooden door with a row of glass panels on the top. Here's what I did last year. Ran a 60 amp sub panel to my garage Ran 110 20 amp outlets to all the walls, ran a couple of 220v outlets Ran a 30 amp 220 to my heater (5000 Watt) Ripped down all the sheet rock on the uninsulated wall, insulated and put up new sheetrock Put up new wind block weatherstripping stuff to keep wind and pests out Put closed cell foam tape between the garage door folds Put a foam rubber wind stop on the bottom of the door to seal out air and drafts Hung 10 t12 double bulb fluorescent lights In total, doing all the work myself I paid about 1000 in materials (wire, outlets, breakers, panel, switches, lights, light fixtures, heater, insulation, sheetrock, joint compound, Behr Ultra 5 gallons of OOPS Paint from home depot, seem tape) My garage has a room over it so the ceiling is already insulated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlgWoodWork Posted December 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 I got the insulation all put in the shop. I still need to get the foam insulation panels for the garage door, but that will be done later this week. Pics are on my blog. Here is the blog post: http://dlgwoodworkblg.com/insulating-shopgarage/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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