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Total Members Voted: 36
Voting closed: August 11, 2017, 12:32:35 PM
Though I don't have any particular solutions, we are in the position of having to move, and the place we have 99% settled on has full AC. We were walking through it Friday afternoon, and totally empty, it was 65°, I imagine a couple of dryers will change that. I'm really looking forward to it, as I'm old, and have been in heat since '75, though mostly I'm in the office for the last 20 years, I'm no stranger to nights and weekends out there. I'm sure a lot us have had new hires magically disappear after a day or two...Steve
Quote from: Sbrem on August 20, 2017, 09:41:02 AMThough I don't have any particular solutions, we are in the position of having to move, and the place we have 99% settled on has full AC. We were walking through it Friday afternoon, and totally empty, it was 65°, I imagine a couple of dryers will change that. I'm really looking forward to it, as I'm old, and have been in heat since '75, though mostly I'm in the office for the last 20 years, I'm no stranger to nights and weekends out there. I'm sure a lot us have had new hires magically disappear after a day or two...SteveWe've had a couple new hires that left for lunch and did not return due to the heat, AND we tell them at least 4 times during site visit pre-hire visit that it gets really hot. All pre hire site visits are at 2 PM on a hot day and they still don't appear to listen. BTW it gets hot in our production area, did I mention it gets hot?
Next Update: I came up to the shop on Saturday around 10:30, it was 93 degrees in the shop with nothing on. I cranked the AC down to 75 and started doing some work without the dryer running. It took an hour but it got down to 83 and by 3:30 it had held steady at 84 but it felt great. The humidity was 35%. So now I think if I can continue to insulate the bay doors and search for cracks and areas where the heat is flowing in or cold air is going out, I'll just need to fix the dryer. The dryer doesn't put out much heat from it's shell, but it won't take much work and money to slap some insulation around it and also duct the infeed/outfeed and also insulate the ducts that should keep it below 90 fairly easy. And saturday was absolutely brutally hot. Heat index was 107 and I'm not sure about the humidity but it's never dry. I also covered one of the three air outlets on both units so that the air coming out of the other 2 is travelling much faster and further. I like having the high ceilings but I think a drop ceiling, maybe compromise to a 12' ceiling, properly insulated along with doing the work on the dryer it might keep it below 80. But looking at how much work would need to be done to put in a ceiling I bet it would cost as much as the AC did. Maybe next summer.