I have more than one shop. More than one garage. So why have one giant shop? The bigger and the taller the harder to heat. I have one shop 28x44x16ft stick built, impossible to heat. I have a extremely well 24x24x10 insulated attached garage that I keep at 50 using a 1500w baseboard heater. My latest is a 30x40x10 pole barn, no insulation, 1 ft vented eves, 35 year shingles. I have no plans to heat or insulate. I park my snow covered truck in barn, snow melts, water on floor and a few days later water on floor is gone. Because the barn had no metal on roof, I have no condensation, no rusty tools, no moisture related issues like I have in another 24x24x8 block garage that I to store my jubilee in. Snow on the tires is a problem.
I put down a 6 inch floor in pole barn, total cost came in at $15k including a power vent and wiring. The upside, it has gray/blue metal siding which acts like a solar collector when the sun is out, the inside temp of barn is always 10-15 degrees warmer than outside. I don't spend a dime on heat, don't plan to either. I'm just glad to work inside out of the wind, a +10-15 degree warmer is a free bonus. The 6 inch floor acts like a heat sink too. It's below freezing outside and rarely does the water on the floor freeze. Rarely does the water on floor stay around for more than a few days.
Pole barns are cheap to build, cheap on taxes, but almost impossible to make air tight to heat. I wouldn't want to make them air tight either and trap moisture. I know a man who had scrap siding and materials. He put up a stick built shed over an existing concrete slap. He is crying about paying more taxes on shed than on his house. He used vinyl siding so assessor treats it like a house that someone could live in, ouch.
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