RYAN - Son has drywall. The ceiling may get insulated when I'm down there next time. I spent enough time running wire for the elec. outlets up there last summer in the 100+ degree heat. SON isn't comfortable getting around up there, he's about 6 ft 2 @ 250+# and I'm 5 ft 9 & 175#. The bottom chords of the trusses are only 2X4's and SON's afraid they won't hold him. We'll probably use 6" fiberglass batts.
I put 6 inches of insulation in the ceiling of my shop and am very happy with the results. The walls are 2X4 studs so there's 3-1/2" of kraft faced fiberglass batts in the walls. I went from using ten gal. of kerosene every two weeks heating my shop to ten gallons lasting 2-3 months after insulating it. If it was a constant living space I'd have gone thicker. The way it is we need a couple Zero degree days for the shop temp to drop below freezing without any heat. The year or two after I insulated when I parked my truck in there every night after running 60 miles home from work the temps stayed about 40 degrees just from the heat of the engine.
SON rents this place so he hates to put much more money into the place for things he can't easily take with him. His land-lord has worked with him on some things for the house but he hates to push his luck. We did a BUNCH of elec. wiring in the place this summer, new 220V 60A sub-panel in the garage and a bunch of new outlets in the basement. The place has a 30X50 basement set up for a family room and there were only TWO outlets in the whole basement, and one outlet in the 20X20 garage.
ANYHOW, to keep this on-topic, the garage/shop was where my 982 stayed all summer! And if things go well, the #70 will live there next summer.
I put 6 inches of insulation in the ceiling of my shop and am very happy with the results. The walls are 2X4 studs so there's 3-1/2" of kraft faced fiberglass batts in the walls. I went from using ten gal. of kerosene every two weeks heating my shop to ten gallons lasting 2-3 months after insulating it. If it was a constant living space I'd have gone thicker. The way it is we need a couple Zero degree days for the shop temp to drop below freezing without any heat. The year or two after I insulated when I parked my truck in there every night after running 60 miles home from work the temps stayed about 40 degrees just from the heat of the engine.
SON rents this place so he hates to put much more money into the place for things he can't easily take with him. His land-lord has worked with him on some things for the house but he hates to push his luck. We did a BUNCH of elec. wiring in the place this summer, new 220V 60A sub-panel in the garage and a bunch of new outlets in the basement. The place has a 30X50 basement set up for a family room and there were only TWO outlets in the whole basement, and one outlet in the 20X20 garage.
ANYHOW, to keep this on-topic, the garage/shop was where my 982 stayed all summer! And if things go well, the #70 will live there next summer.