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makoshark · #51 01-03-2013, 03:40 PM

I guess I'm fortunate to live in the south with warmer winters. When I built my house, 11 years ago, I had my garages fully insulated and installed double insulated garage doors. I use a 1500 watt radiant heater hanging from the ceiling and it will keep you comfy in the winters. Now, summer time is another story. Southern summers with 100% humidity and no clouds in the sky is enough to not even want to think about going outside.

Roberts68 · #52 01-03-2013, 04:30 PM

I insulated the garage, sheetrocked with 5/8" and upgraded my garage door to insulated.
I have yet to do the half of the ceiling that was not done for firecode in '01 though.

I did all my sheetrocking and insulation work around the immobile Camaro. Stubborn huh?

Do you have trouble with concrete sweating and all of your metal tools/parts condensating... then rusting?

That happens here when it gets super hot and muggy, and is common in the spring when the frost goes out. Unfortunately it was also a byproduct of when I had big temp swings in the garage with my haphazard method.

I worry a little I will have that again if I don't maintain a minimum heat once I start heating the garage. Time will tell. I just don't want to commit to a setpoint that finances a new wing at Centerpoint Energy HQ with what I spend on my gas bill increase once I go to a gas fired hanging unit.

makoshark · #53 01-03-2013, 04:39 PM

My double garage floor will sweat a little prior to a heavy rain storm when the humidity is high right before the storm. However, the single garage side does not sweat. The single side is where I keep my project. I dubbed it, "the closet."

You could epoxy coat your garage floor to stop the sweating.

Maybe you could install a small propane tank for the garage heater.

Roberts68 · #54 01-03-2013, 04:51 PM

I could look into it again because it has been years. Natural gas was more economical than propane and the heaters require an orifice change. To my knowledge a dual fuel option is not common or possibly not sold.

Creativity seems to be discouraged in the liability laden HVAC market.

I did not know coatings would prevent the floor sweating. I will confirm that with my neighbor, he spent $3k on his floor prior to his oldest sons grad party 5-6 years ago.

makoshark · #55 01-03-2013, 04:57 PM

The trick with propane is buying it out of season when you can
negotiate a better price.

Epoxy will seal the concrete just as it seals the metal from
moisture on our heaps.

Roberts68 · #56 03-15-2013, 09:56 AM

Yesterday was a good Camaro day.

I completed re-installing the sheetrock I had removed to run my 220v welder service. I wanted to have wiring completed prior to ordering my welder which will be pretty soon.

More importantly I placed an order with the good folks at Matt's Classic Bowties.
Matt and Kim treated me pretty well and I am eagerly awaiting my Speedtech upper control arms, DSE subframe connectors and Morris Classic Custom Clearshot mirrors.
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One Lap Camaro with the same upper arms. Speedtech recommends their flatter high clearance upper arm to go with my tall ATS spindles. This is an especially "big deal" to me because the upper arms represent one of my major puzzle pieces that I was waiting on therefore "SOMEDAY" draws one step closer.

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