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Originally Posted by speeder
Now do you insulate the heck out of it and heat it as a workshop or is that the smaller building or? I'm guessing that the weather is changing rapidly up there and that you got the concrete poured just in time.  |
It won't get cold enough to affect pouring concrete for a couple of months, and then we have windows in time when we can pour. We did the floor in my previous garage in January.
I'm not going to insulate the barn. I have enough interests that I can work with the seasons and keep busy no matter the weather. I work in the unheated shop with the lift when it's warm, and have a car space in the heated garage under our house if I need or want to work on a car during the winter. During the winter I operate Vicki's quilting machine, restore sewing machines, fix furniture and random stuff - it keeps me busy.
The worst thing about an unheated shop in Ohio is that in the spring, warm, moist air will come up from the gulf for a day or two after everything in the shop has cold soaked for weeks. The moisture in the air condenses on the cold surfaces and causes things to rust. I uncover my cars in the spring, to keep wet car covers laying against the paint. We have half a dozen of these cycles every spring.