Finally Insulating My Garage/Shop Door & Trying Out A Portable AC

so before we get into this i want to show you guys this morning a quarter to eight this is the picture that i took of the indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity here in my shop and then this was me sitting down right now at 11 o'clock just before filming this video now i'll let you guys pause the video and do the math and do all the stuff but regardless of whatever the numbers say it is a huge difference in this shop right now what's going on guys i'm jody this is inspire woodcraft today i want to show you guys kind of the steps i took to sort of seal up my shop this has been a long time coming i've got foam panels in the garage door to try and insulate that i also had a really annoying gap up above here that i'll show you guys here in a second that i finally covered up capped off to keep hot air from coming down here and then i also put some trim on the outside now all this stuff that i used is stuff that i got at the home depot so it's not very expensive in fact expense was something i was trying to keep obviously as low as possible and i also brought a portable ac into the shop now i've actually had this thing for a while and i haven't run it because it's just been so bad in here as far as the air coming through here the hot air coming down and everything so i wanted to see how well this portable ac unit would actually work now this garage door is just like any other basic garage door it's totally uninsulated steel or metal door i don't know what it's made out of and then around the top and sides you guys can see this light leakage that comes through here this is all from the air gaps from the outside driveway air seeping up inside then of course i have this giant gap in the ceiling about five feet from what i guess is the front of the garage back to here which lets all that hot attic air just dump right down here into this part of the shop now you can actually walk in the man door and notice a definite difference between coming back here to the actual bay door it it the air just gets thicker and heavier and hotter as you move back here it's been absolutely miserable during the summer times material wise i'm going with a two inch pink rigid foam this has an r value of 10 which is a bit better than some of the thinner stuff or the foil backed stuff and then i went with osb to cap this ceiling with no insulation but i will talk about that in just a little bit now if you guys are going to do something like this i highly recommend you measure each one of these panels i always assumed that all these panels were the same but they're not in fact for me personally the top row is all narrow and then each column is a little bit different the two in the middle are roughly the same the ones at the end are definitely different than the ones in the middle but they're also different than each other so what i recommend is actually measuring each one and writing them down in sort of a mapped off area what i did is i went with this is column a this is column b and then i went with each row was numbered so you have a1 a2 a3 and a4 and then once you're done cutting it you can actually label those the same as you did on the paper and so you won't lose track of what part goes where now foam can be cut on a table saw just like any other material in your shop what i did is experiment with saw blades because i have a lot of new saw blades here in the shop now and i want to see what was would be better i honestly thought that a rip blade would be better because it has less teeth maybe it wouldn't have such high heat buildup but actually what worked better is these 42 and 60 tooth blades they're a flat top tooth grind and an alternating top bevel design both and they worked great and actually the 60 tooth i used for the osb as well so i can highly recommend either one of those blades the rip blades actually built up a lot of heat and left some of the foam residue on the blades which i was really surprised to find out now for me once i had the foam cut i went to the osb because i had to have the garage door shut anyways but you can see how cramped it is in my shop now i have all this stuff uh everywhere but this is also why i got the 36 inch uh table the extended table on the new saw is for instances just like this the gap in my ceiling is actually 5 feet when you take eight foot panel of course you take five feet off of that you have three feet left over which meant i could cut all of these in one pass at the table saw in full sheets and just break them down which i really liked installing them was a little more awkward and cumbersome than i would have liked i really do recommend if you guys are in a situation like this yourselves that you get somebody to help you i'm more stubborn and not that smart so i just did this on my own with the exception of my wife handed me some screws here and there she was coming in and out of the shop and for those of you that are going to ask right now yes there's a reason why i used screws so i didn't use insulation in the ceiling and it was to keep the cost factored down i mean as is this already cost me about 350 which to some of you might not be much to some of you it might be a lot i was just trying to keep the cost down overall and with it being screwed into the ceiling there's five panels i can take the second and fourth panel down and get access to the all the other panels and tuck insulation up there at a later date if i feel it's actually necessary and then i can put insulation on the second and fourth panel and push them back up in the ceiling and screw them all back in and they're already fit and they're already good to go had i nailed them it would have been a lot more difficult i would have had to figure something else out i didn't want to have to go down that route so there is a reason why i used screws now that the ceiling is closed up and the door has the foam in it i could move on to the trim to the outside and the easiest way i found to do this was just to use a square and a knife and score a square line there and then cut the trim with that same knife so i kind of did it all in one motion and then honestly to cut it the quickest easiest thing i had available to me right that second with the shot being such a mess was my dovetail saw i was afraid to use it because i didn't want to damage it but it was no problem at all cut through it just fine i really recommend presetting your nails if you do something like this especially if you're on your own because you're gonna have to try and balance you know reaching up and tucking that trim up into the corners or whatever it is and then you're gonna have to hammer and you're gonna have to hold the nail and you have to do all this stuff you preset the nails first the job will be much much easier and then for the corners i didn't do anything fancy with miters and everything i just shoved it right up into the corner there and butted it up into the other one and i've had this door up and down a few times now and there's no problems with the little rubber uh weather strip part whatsoever it's actually goes right back in line where it's supposed to go now as far as the ac unit itself goes i will put a picture of it on the screen here so you guys can see because i can't remember the model number exactly but this is the kind that has the vent that goes out to a wall or to a window or wherever it is that you're going to mount it now i have this sash kit for this thing but i don't want to use it in my window in fact i like my window to be closed not just the window itself but the blinds that i have up here as well i just i never have them open i don't want somebody coming by and seeing what's going on in the shop and also in my particular situation with the one window i have to vent the ac would be in a really awkward spot it would always be in the way and i would probably just figure out how to not have it in here at all with it vented to the windows now i have a vent in the wall of my garage already and so that's where i chose to vent it and venting it was super easy i just had to trace the vent pipe onto what i'm going to use as sort of a bracket to mount to the wall screw all that together and then screw it to the wall and now that thing just vents right outside and it works actually really well the unit itself has a few different modes it has ac mode it has a dehumidifier and it has just a regular fan mode which i i've been running it the last couple days and i think it works great in fact the last two days i had it out here just running all day just to see how much torture i could put it through now i know some of you gonna ask what's going on with the foam am i gonna leave it pink i was originally going to paint it white and i'm still going to i was going to paint it white before i release this video the problem is with the weather system that we've had lately it is just too hot to paint not because of my discomfort just it's it's too hot for paint and so i'm gonna have to wait these panels are actually not in and secure all the way so uh when it comes time to paint and it cools down outside a little bit i will take them out one at a time again they're labeled on the other side so i know where they go i can take them outside a couple at a time i'm just going to spray them white and then that'll give me a much cleaner appearance on this door and for me especially because it'll reflect the light a little bit so i'll give me some more shop light because i'm on camera all the time it's just going to be helpful and cleaner and more pleasant all the way around now when i do go to mount them i'm actually going to use a double-sided mounting tape this is going to allow everything to expand and contract and play nice together i have a feeling if i use some sort of a glue one i'm going to end up with a permanent bond maybe i change my mind and i want to do something else down the road and i want to take these panels out or when i move in a couple years maybe the new owners want to take these panels out or whatever might happen i would like something that's not so permanent but also glue once it dries is not going to be able to expand and contract at the same rate that this foam mounting tape does and so that's going to make it so that it say sticks to the garage door but then starts to eat away at the foam releasing its bond over time and then randomly you have uh panels falling out when you open up the garage door but you wouldn't know it of course until it happens so that's kind of a pain in the butt now like i say i think the unit works great i'm actually really happy to have it as some of you guys know newer sent that out to us back in the spring and it was just too early to talk about air conditioning so we postponed it ironically until the hottest week of the year here an honorable mention coats to a evaporative cooler also known as a swamp cooler that they sent out to us recently as well now the unit itself works great it turns on all the functions work it holds a ton of water the fan alone is just i mean it really puts out a ton of air i just don't know how to use a swamp cooler so i've had this thing in the shop for the last say two weeks i've had it plugged in i've used it it operates fine it's the first smoke color i've ever had so if you guys know how to use a smoke cooler obviously better than i do leave a comment that will help me and others learn how to do that both those items and anything else on newer's website can be found on their website obviously but for 10 off so you guys use inspire 10 at checkout if you choose to you know get yourself a portable air air conditioner or anything else 10 off enter inspire 10 and so that's always good to have and that's always the thing that's running all the time i think that's it for me if you guys have questions if i kind of skipped over something as always leave a comment down below and i'll try and keep an eye out on that stuff other than that thank you so much for watching this video as always we'll see you guys in the next one

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 18 2020