I'm going to stray off the subject a tad and get on my soap box a bit. I'm in that kind of a mood! LOL The cheapest way to heat your shop can be summed up in two words: TIGHT and copious amounts of INSULATION. It takes time and money to make your shop tight and it costs money to insulate, not just two or four inches, but six inches or more. You can tighten it up with whatever materials you wish, duct tape, cardboard, tin, whatever you can find cheap if you are on a tight budget. You don't have to spend much. I have three shops, two were fixed up with new materials and yes it was very expensive going with new stuff but they are TIGHT and don't take much to heat on the coldest day. The third shop, my woodworking shop is a leaky old wood framed hog house that I lined with used roofing tin on the outside to cover the old rickety wooden drop siding. Underneath the steel siding is 1" yellow insulation board. The inside has a vapor barrier on the walls and ceiling of old grain pile tarp that I got for free, and covered with old 1X6 and 1X8 lumber that used to line the overhead bins in a corn crib. 4" of fiberglass insulation in the walls, I wish there was more, and 12" of blown in the ceiling. The walls and ceiling are all used 1x boards, not tounge and groove, just plain old boards. The heavy grain tarp vapor barrier seals up the leaks between the boards. Super easy to heat but by no means gleaming white. The three shops have hanging propane heaters and run off of one tank. The thermostats are kept at 50 most of the time. Our old farm house has propane heat and runs off a separate tank so I can easily keep track of usage. The house is kept warmer, of course, but the house uses sometimes as much propane per month as the three shops. Most times the three shops together use maybe $100 per month more fuel if my son and I are active out there.
What does this have to do with the cheapest type of heat? Nothing! LOL If you take some time to scrounge around you won't have a lot of money invested and you can have a shop that doesn't require much of whatever you do use to heat it. Now you can shove me off my soapbox. LOL
This post was edited by fixerupper at 13:02:21 01/31/15.
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