How to cool the workshop

[Guy]

Today with an ambient outside temp of 44C and inside the work shop it hit nearly 60C making it impossible to do any work. My workshop is just a sinble car garage with a gable tiled roof which is insulated.
Any one got some ideas
Guy

 

[Nick W]

Move to Blighty? :lol:

 

[Shivers]

Today with an ambient outside temp of 44C and inside the work shop it hit nearly 60C making it impossible to do any work. My workshop is just a sinble car garage with a gable tiled roof which is insulated.
Any one got some ideas
Guy

white roof.

 

[OLD]

You need cross ventilation of some sort and some ventilation to gable ends so then the temp will be the same as out side still to hot.

 

[engineer one]

a heat exchanger from the tinnie reefer to the workshop :lol:

surely the reverse of what some are trying to do in the uk, take the heat into the earth with a heat exchanger would give you some better cooling??


even moving the air will not remove the heat, so you need to think of some kind of refrigeration, but also how to do it economically, and with the lowest cost.

paul :wink:

 

[mel]

my heart goes out to you :^o

TUFF !!!!

 

[dedee]

As well as the white roof over here we can buy solar reflective paint, silver in colour, might help a bit but even if it bought the inside temp down to the ambient temperature it would still be way to hot for me.

Andy

 

[Shivers]

I checked the temps on a chart wheeew!!!!

40c ===105f

60c=== 140f

thats rediculous--its like having a shop in death valley.


no other option than airconditioning/white roof/sealing building ect.

in the states i worked in 108f once for 18 hrs---i nearly suffered from heat stroke,had to have 2 days off--i was knackered.

can you get dry ice anywhere & put a fan infront of it.

regards.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I thought Aussies just drank Fosters to keep cool :lol:

 

[wizer]

do what I do, don't put any doors on it ](*,) :roll:

 

[Losos]

Hi Guy,
In some ways getting the temp. down is harder than getting it up. Since you've bunged the roof up with Rokwool (Or similar) there's not much I can advise.

If you had the space, fitting an 'inner' wall (Ply or plasterboard) and filling the gap with yet more Rokwool would help but if it's a single car garage I don't suppose that's an option.

But hang on, when you'e working I'm sleeping so if we just put a pipe in from just outside my 'shop to you I could send you some minus 20 C air, that should do the trick :wink: :wink:

 

[mambo]

my heart goes out to you

shouldnt that be "my heat goes out to you" :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[promhandicam]

Hi. Some of the old series II or III landrovers had a tropical roof which was basically a second aluminium sheet spaced about 40mm off the normal roof. this allowed a flow of air between the two (at least while driving along). this did go some way to helping to cool the inside. so maybe if you had a second roof above the first with fans to get a through draft of air this might help. I've also seen houses with thatch over corugated aluminium - the aluminium for waterproofing and the thatch to help keep it cool. An attic fan might also help to cool things down a bit but as someone else has said, with the outside temp in the 40's you will struggle to get the temperature down to a reasonable leve without a complete redesign.

Steve (who is enjoying the hammartan at the moment which brings the temp down to a chilly 25C at night)

 

[Anonymous]

Hmmm,

I too was wondering how I could cool down the shop this morning.

It's nearly 30 degrees in here today.....


....Farenheit!

Cheers
Brad