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The new Garage

I'm tired of working in my tiny 2 car garage so I'm finally building a big (30'x60') shop to work in.
It was 116° yesterday, the evap got it down to a chilly 100 while we were working in there... Unfortunately up by the ceiling it is much hotter.
My old garage doesn't have wall or ceiling insulation, so this is a step up from that, plus I grew up here so I'm used to it somewhat.

When I have more time this winter we'll finish up the paint and I plan on blowing in cellulose to an R30 level which should make a huge difference.

100 HA!Hahahahaha! I would be bitching so much about that, I get all pissed at 75.
 
That's what I say about the cold. You don't have to shovel sunshine...
 
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I've lived in upstate New York and Connecticut and I've learned that being cold sucks, nobody loses fingers and toes from being too warm, nobody dies from heat because the power lines coming in to their house melted, cars don't go skidding off the road into a ditch because it was 120 out. If cold was awesome, more people would live in Alaska and Northern Canada, but they don't so...

I'll take the heat any day. I do appreciate that a lot of people think like you though, too many people here already.
 
That's because it's less populated where it's cold... Show the same graph based on per capita deaths and I bet it would be a totally different story.
 
Plus a lot of the "heat" related deaths happen where it's typically not hot (Chicago) where they don't have A/C and the elderly are too afraid to open their windows.
 
We got the bad fan swapped out this weekend and worked on a few trucks in there (The Shop Truck, the S-10 and my friends Xterra). I also found out I can get 3 of my trucks parked end to end in the garage, which is nice.

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Yes, it's definitely better, but still loud. My concern is when I'm doing major fab work and move all the vehicles out other than the one I'm working on.
 
There are various schemes for hanging different shapes and sizes of panels from the ceiling both horizontally and vertically to act as sound traps or diffusers. Some designs may be a bit complex for the size of your ceiling though.
 
My office and a lot of restaurants use wood wool panels for acoustic dampening and they work really well, I just haven't figured out how a normal homeowner can go about ordering the panels.
 
My office and a lot of restaurants use wood wool panels for acoustic dampening and they work really well, I just haven't figured out how a normal homeowner can go about ordering the panels.
If I can find the business card I will send it to you
 
I need a lot of 4x8' panels to do an adequate job of sound deadening. The prices I've seen online are ridiculous and I haven't seen anything in 4x8, mostly 2x4.
 
I don't think you'd need specific acoustic materials - and may not want them as they may be more prone to fire. I've seen acoustic panels made from bunches of 2x2's depending on the frequencies you're trying to dampen.
 

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