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Got the pellet stove in my shop about a month ago (an early Xmas gift from my beloved).
Spent the past two days insulating the roof and walls with fiberglass batts. I'm about 60-70% of the way done. I swear it already seems much warmer (and quieter) in there!
The floor sure is cold, though...
Jason
Last edited by Jason White; 01-05-2010 at 5:10 PM.
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The first winter after I built my shop I put a 30,000btu heater in it and it barely kept the frost off me. The next summer I sealed it and insulated, now it stays 70° in this kind of weather. Really makes a difference. My shop is a metal building.
Fred
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When I built my shop I put one and a half inches of rigid insulation over the concrete floor, that along with four inches in the walls and fifteen inches in the ceiling - keeps it nice and warm with my 15,000 Btu vented gas furnace. I'm on the south shore of Lake Superior.
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Jason,
You won't need that soon and the floor will warm up with Al Gore's global warming plan.
BTW - It hasn't been above freezing here in east Tennessee for the past three days.
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It hasn't been above 10 degrees for several days now and the forecast for Friday has a low of -25 and a high of -2plus we're getting another 3-5" of snow on top of the 26" we already got with 30-40 MPH winds.........Yup............Global Warming has us in it's cruel clutches
However, rumor has it that by July we might see a warming trend
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Last week when we were in the 20's for highs I had my shop nice and warm with my pellet stove. Before I finished the insulation I had to run it on a max setting (5). Now I can run it on a 2 to maintain the temp at 65-70F. If the daytime temp gets above 35-40 I can cut it down to 1 until the evening.
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