John wrote:

"Wes" wrote in message
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"John" wrote:

You dont want to have your iron chill down so it takes a half a day
to bring
it up to a reasonable temp. I would try to seal up all the air
leaks and
then set the thermostat to hold 45 deg. while you are not there.
Think of
those machines as big ice cubes if they get cold. A hot air propane
heater
will make your machines sweat and rust if it vents into the room.
The high
efficiency gas furnaces that put out water are real nice if you can
get one
cheap.


I'm building the room very tight and I'm using electric heat to keep
any moisture issues
from happening. Since there is nearly two tons of metal in the room,
I'm not going to be
able to cycle too low.

I've been playing with a couple calculators on the net and it looks
like I could keep it
at 70F for 240 bucks a year if I plugged the right numbers in.

Wes


Putting a small fan in the ceiling to blow the hot air to the floor will
reduce the heat losses in the ceiling.


John


And increase heat loss at the floor which probably has less net
effective insulation than the R30 ceiling. Then again I hate cold
floors, insulating mats help a lot.

CarlBoyd