Thread: Winter is Coming (apologies to GOT) .. How best to Heat a Workshop

+1 for thermals and moving around. I served four years in cold storage on night shift, the only blokes who complained of the cold were the slackers who moved at a snails pace.

Are you able to look at the heating performance of an outdoor wood burning furnace with recirculating heater fluid?
I've visited friends with 4-zone systems at -15C and colder (2 for the house, one for the shop and one for the pool).
I think max was about 25C in any zone, if you needed it. But I suppose it gets chilly where you are.

I run a Harman PP38+ wood pellet stove for 2 x 1200 sqft to see 19C - 22C with -25C outdoors.
Approx $250/ton and just finished 4.5 tons (9,000lbs this winter past.)

Where we live is at the bottom of the Great Dividing Range just north of Tamworth. Summers can go up to very high 30s then winter......Minus 7°. This last summer we got Evaporated Cooling for the house so I spent most of the day "hiding" in doors. We set the Cooler to bring the temp down to 24°. We just let the thermostat do what it wanted. The thing would start up with a gentle breath but by lunch time we would have quite a blow coming out and would keep it up until 8pm when it would cycle back. It was a stroke of genius to install the thing, it made such a difference to surviving the heat.

In the shed I made out of super single brake drums. It worked very well but had an appetite for wood. I removed it when I was moving the position of machinery around in the shed and haven't as yet reinstalled it. I have a few basic codes that I use in the shed

*If a light has to be turned on to work....its time to go inside and watch the TV (I do have a dozen 4ft Fluorescents fitted to the ceiling)
*If the temp gets too high....TV inside with the new cooler (I have reconditioned an Evaporated
Cooler and its nearly ready to fit through the roof)
*If the temp is too cold below 10° try to find a job outside in the sun. Its a pity that in the middle of winter the grass doesn't grow to make use of more sunny days. Or find a welding job to warm up with