Blank canvas, steel sided 40x60 pole barn. Thoughts on insulating, electrical, heating???
How much you spend on insulation really dictates on the quality of time you would want to spend in your shop. So I pretty much insulated it as if it was a house I was going to live in, I spend almost every waking day in my shop. I also ran all of my electrical and air lines outside the wall, easy to wire and plumb and alterations can be made on the fly. As you can see in the photos I used Tyvek first to cut down on air travel between the corrugated metal panels and the horizontal supports. Rolled batten overlapped and stapled nice and tight, cover it with whatever looks nice to you. I went with tongue and groove with four foot metal panel for looks. For the ceiling metal furring strips, galvanized tin with blown in insulation. My shop is 40 x60 in a pole barn that was a 60 x 120, I use a house LP furnace and go through a tank a winter season which is about 550 a fill.
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How much you spend on insulation really dictates on the quality of time you would want to spend in your shop. So I pretty much insulated it as if it was a house I was going to live in, I spend almost every waking day in my shop. I also ran all of my electrical and air lines outside the wall, easy to wire and plumb and alterations can be made on the fly. As you can see in the photos I used Tyvek first to cut down on air travel between the corrugated metal panels and the horizontal supports. Rolled batten overlapped and stapled nice and tight, cover it with whatever looks nice to you. I went with tongue and groove with four foot metal panel for looks. For the ceiling metal furring strips, galvanized tin with blown in insulation. My shop is 40 x60 in a pole barn that was a 60 x 120, I use a house LP furnace and go through a tank a winter season which is about 550 a fill.
