How cold does your shop get?

[TCT]

How cold are people letting their production area go down to? Everyone that doesn't see below 50 degrees year round, bite me! The cold has kicked in here and every year I wonder to myself if I should put a secondary heating source in. During the day when the shirts are flying and the dryer is cranking, everything is fine. It is just that first thing in the morning it is usually a bit cooler and the ink is stubborn. The coldest it has gotten inside overnight was the upper 30's, but I would say it is usually upper 40's/lower 50's.

I just got a killer deal on a nice IR tube heater on Craigslist and I am trying to figure out if it would be best if I installed it at the shop, or if I get to bring it home for the garage! Sure is nice in the summer when the ink is all creamy, so my garage may have to stay wood burning for another year... 

Where is everyone else? Thoughts?

[mk162]

60...minimum

[Homer]

we didn't get a furnace in the print shop until last February.... we still don't have heat in the office/showroom/sign shop...it's stupid cold....we have space heaters in the small rooms, ink room, embroidery but with all that, you can still see your breath...the ink room is the warmest, probably in the low 60's...my office has a space heater too but it's all block wall, so it's still balls ass cold. to run the dryer in the print shop, we have to turn the gas off to the furnace, our gas line is a bit too small to supply both....all of this should be resolved in about a month or so, not a huge deal, but nothing works well in the cold...i feel your pain....it's snowing right now btw.

[Frog]

Not too bad yet here, we still have pretty nice weather.
It will be 40-50 ish usually at the worst. I currently use one of those jet engine type kerosene heaters, and it only takes ten minutes or so to warm up my little shop (thankfully because it's loud!)


One year, we had a long enough cold spell that allowed me to make some lager in one end of the shop at a pretty steady 45.

Now, the question may be, does anyone have any special way of treating (and heating) their ink when it does get cold?

I often bring the next day's inks into the house. Otherwise, I use my drying cabinet.

[TCT]

I have toyed with the idea of moving/making a ink room in the basement. It stays pretty even thought the year, but the idea of having to go downstairs every time to get ink or whatnot is not appealing.

[TCT]

Homer and MK162 where are you guys located?

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[mk162]

outside atlanta, really close to where the Braves will be playing in 2017!!

[gtmfg]

Just over 60 degrees. It's to hard to get rolling in the morning if we are below that. That being said we are only in 5k sq ft.
Plus the employees bitch.

[Inkworks]

I have a programmable thermostat and only let it get down to 55F at night and weekends. A balmy 62 during work hours, and of course the dryer and flashes heat things up when in use. I'm thinking of building a heated ink cabinet for the plastisols.

We heat our house primarily with wood in the winter, and I'm looking to find a good deal on a used catalytic wood stove for the shop too. An easy 10-20 hour burn times with 1 load. I love to go out and get wood when I have time, but I don't have much of that. so I called up the guys who sell wood and made signs for them in exchange for several loads. 

My last job working for someone else had an owner who was stingy with the heat and it drove me nuts. He would even come around and take peoples space heaters.

[GaryG]

Watch any combustibles with the IR tube heater!
Repeat line one.......
Turn our heater to 45 @ night

[3Deep]

Guess I'm lucky we have central heat and air in our whole building, but during winter I'm thinking maybe 40 on our worse day and that's when we first walk in, other than that we be good!!!! and I did mean we be good LOL


Darryl

[GraphicDisorder]

Through the weeks maybe 50 at worst, weekend it gets maybe 40 at worst. As we turn heaters down. 

[Denis Kolar]

65, I'm home base with a central heat.
When printing, 85-90

[Binkspot]

Set the thermostat to 50 over night 45 on the weekends. Move the white and poly inks into the screen room which is set at 85 once the cold sets in.

[GraphicDisorder]

Sit your white ink on your dryer in the morning.... always works for us.