Winter project space on a budget

[Jeff]

Completed on a budget of $30 and on hand materials.   We built a divider wall and kept all the big cold stuff on one side. This morning was our coldest yet, and our first test it took 10 minutes to heat the side I wanted warm. It was 12° outside. The gigital thermometer craps out below 32 so I dunno for sure where we started, but it read 51° in ten minutes. The pipe insulation at the top was 30 bucks for 30 feet.

[Jeff]

We strung a coated wire cloths line across attached to eye screws with the pigroaster motor tensioner turnbuckle used to tighten the line. The 10x12 tarps were walls for my building on a budget at the cabin for a year. The blue tarp came from a pigroast game. It says top secret on it. The tarps are hung by zip strips. They over lap at the joints. There are also 3 screwhooks in the ceiling to snap the wire up in to eliminate sag.

[thecfarm]

Gotta keep warm.
I often think about the times I worked on my old jukers out in the cold. 

[doc henderson]

Do I see a little bench on the wooden work bench?

[Old Greenhorn]

Looks like a stool to me.

Ray, you reminded me of my first car. I bought it before I even got a learner's permit (I like to plan ahead), It was a '55 Ford that I got for 50 bucks. It had sat in a rented garage for at least a dozen years. Towed it home in the fall and got it in the backyard, then spent every penny I had from my part time burger joint job ($1.80/hr) on parts. Did fuel pump, clutch, generator, new vacuum lines for the wipers and such, and re-did the interior. Mid-December it got pretty cold so we carried the tranny downstairs and did a full rebuild on it. We had it ready to go back in around the first week of February. It was 5 below the day we actually did it, no wind, bright sun. 3 of us and I gotta tell you laying on the frozen ground on our backs trying to get the clutch and bolts holes all lined up was some of the coldest working time I ever had in my life. But when I passed my test in May, I had a reliable car ready to rock and roll (and pick up chicks).

[rusticretreater]

oh you crazy kids.

[Old Greenhorn]

I refrained from telling the full story because of where we are, but it was the only time in my life I can remember being SO uncomfortably cold and laughing uncontrollably at the same time while also using every once of strength I had trying to get that tranny lined up and the bolts started. All I will say, and that may be too much, was that it involved a prophylactic. You had to be there.

[DDW_OR]

we do not use the Living room so i walled it off with three 2x2 that i wedged in place vertically. then used large sheets of cardboard from Costco to finish the wall
house side is 75, Living room is 68.
only have one side with cardboard. will try adding a second side to see if i can make the temp dif bigger.

did not block off the heating ducts.
and will not.

[GRANITEstateMP]

I am jealous, yesterday it got up around 35, and I had told my wife I'd put an auxiliary backup light on her 4Runner. I brought it around back to the walkout basement and closer to tools. All went well except it was still only 35 and, then I broke a bolt and needed to drill it out!  Wife now has a backup.light, I crossed another thing off my to do list, and I depend my resolve to save up for a shop/garage!

Then I'm gonna want a floor, electric, AND heat.  I better go sell some more firewood

[Resonator]

So, the 1st pic is of the "cold side", where MR Truck is parked, is the east end. And the second pic is the "hot side", where the rolling workbench with the fancy legs is, is the west end. (Had to go by memory of the Pig Roast and look at the pictures a couple times, but I think I got it figured out.) 

[Jeff]

Yup. Stuff is hard to warm up. So the stuff side is the cold side. 

[hedgerow]

For a number of years I used a tarp in my one pole shed to make a shop divider to make a 40X40 room to heat and work in. I currently have no heat in my 30X60X16 shop here at the house since my Garn died and I didn't get another propane tank rounded up to get the LP furnace going in the shop . Need to do some tank shopping. Probably need to buy a 1000 gallon for the house and put the 500 gallon one currently on the house on the shop.

[aigheadish]

Are the ceiling and walls insulated in there Jeff? My shop has an open but insulated ceiling up to the peak at around 15 feet, if I had to guess. It's hard/expensive to keep warmish. My 2x4s aren't insulated and I'm likely losing heat there and the front wall of the peak, above header height isn't insulated at all and probably the worst part. I need to get off my duff because I think I have enough insulation in the barn to put up on that peak and it's much nicer work to do when it's cold out.

[Jeff]

Yep, its insulated through out, but I have a half a tank of propane left over from the  pigroaster and that is my limit. I probably wont do much out there, but odds are the days I might have to will be the coldest ones.

[DDW_OR]

once or twice a year the local Murdoch's store has 1/2 price propane.

also have a Centrasl Boiler 750HDX
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=119613.0;all

and will be used for the Greenhouse
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=124171.0;all#bot

Propane is for BBQ and some smokers

[Peter Drouin]

I would bring back firewood from the camp. Fill your truck. Put in a wood stove in your garage.

[Jeff]

Its 182 miles to the cabin and illegal to transport firewood to or from there. We have reasonably, conpared to other areas, priced natural and propane gas. The cost and work of cutting and transporting and burning firewood here makes it a non option.  Now if I lived at the cabin full time, I would want to put a stove in.