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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Northern Colorado, USA
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I had a solar shade made/installed on my garage door years ago. It works great. Cranks up and down. Box mounts on the upper garage door frame out side of the door. Cables on left/right that guide it and keep it from flapping in the wind. I ran mine within about 6" of the floor when fully extended. IIRC cost was about $1000 installed but that was back in around 2013. Local patio shade company. Very high quality unit has held up well. Brand is Insolroll.

Mine look similar to this, stock photo, not a garage but you get the idea, box mounts across the top of the garage door frame and cables like you can see here:


Then I mounted one of those industrial wall-mount oscillating fans high on the back wall. It's an Air-King from Amazon. Keeps it relatively comfortable in the summer, but you do have to put sockets on top of papers and such so the fan doesn't blow them off the workbench LOL. The picture does not do it justice, it moves some serious air.



https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00155VT9K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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