EPAIII
Diamond
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2003
- Location
- Beaumont, TX, USA
Why are there so many shops that have little or no heat?
We will spend tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the machines pursuing goals like efficiency, accuracy, and capability. Then we put them in a building in a northern climate which has no heat or only enough to keep it barely above freezing? This is professional???
I know all about cheap buildings with no insulation and large air leaks about every window and door. But insulation is cheap and so is weather stripping. We are talking about hundreds of dollars, not thousands. A shop heater has got to be the best spent money that your shop will ever see. And adding a thermostat control will aid in maintaining the accuracy that those expensive machines were purchased to provide.
Over a 45+ year career, every shop that I worked in had heat. They had enough heat so I could work in my shirt sleeves on the coldest day of the year in that location. Most of them also had AC for the summer heat. OK, those were electronic shops, but what is the real difference? I had a personal shop in Iowa. Feet of snow in the winter and the thermometer could hit bottom and keep going down from there. The wind could be horrible. I ran heat all winter long. I lowered the thermostat when I was not there but it still ran. It did not break my personal piggy bank and I don't see how a heater would break a business.
Moving stuff in and out all the time? Bulletin: they make motorized, overhead doors now. Been around for a year or two, I think. Perhaps there are some who have not heard about them yet.
We will spend tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the machines pursuing goals like efficiency, accuracy, and capability. Then we put them in a building in a northern climate which has no heat or only enough to keep it barely above freezing? This is professional???
I know all about cheap buildings with no insulation and large air leaks about every window and door. But insulation is cheap and so is weather stripping. We are talking about hundreds of dollars, not thousands. A shop heater has got to be the best spent money that your shop will ever see. And adding a thermostat control will aid in maintaining the accuracy that those expensive machines were purchased to provide.
Over a 45+ year career, every shop that I worked in had heat. They had enough heat so I could work in my shirt sleeves on the coldest day of the year in that location. Most of them also had AC for the summer heat. OK, those were electronic shops, but what is the real difference? I had a personal shop in Iowa. Feet of snow in the winter and the thermometer could hit bottom and keep going down from there. The wind could be horrible. I ran heat all winter long. I lowered the thermostat when I was not there but it still ran. It did not break my personal piggy bank and I don't see how a heater would break a business.
Moving stuff in and out all the time? Bulletin: they make motorized, overhead doors now. Been around for a year or two, I think. Perhaps there are some who have not heard about them yet.