newbirdhunter
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Folks,
Want to know if insulating and extending duct work to my garage workshop is a good idea.
Background: Setting up a home workshop (hobby, not business) in my two car attached garage. The garage has to be able to store the cars at night so all my tools are on casters and fit along one wall. Obviously, the cars will be pulled out onto the driveway while I work in the shop. TBH, the shop will not be used every day nor every weekend but, uninsulated, the North Texas heat turns my garage into a sauna most of the year. We would like to move to another home (with land for a stand-alone workshop) within the next 5 years but that is not a certainty.
Plan: I would tear down the sheetrock and add the insulation. Hire an HVAC guy to extend the duct work to the garage. Hire a sheetrock guy to put up the new sheetrock for me. (HVAC and Sheetrock are not my thing [unsure]) I'd paint afterwards.
So, my questions are: 1. think it's worth it? 2. do people do this? 3. any benefit as far as house re-sale value?
Thanks for reading,
Frank
Want to know if insulating and extending duct work to my garage workshop is a good idea.
Background: Setting up a home workshop (hobby, not business) in my two car attached garage. The garage has to be able to store the cars at night so all my tools are on casters and fit along one wall. Obviously, the cars will be pulled out onto the driveway while I work in the shop. TBH, the shop will not be used every day nor every weekend but, uninsulated, the North Texas heat turns my garage into a sauna most of the year. We would like to move to another home (with land for a stand-alone workshop) within the next 5 years but that is not a certainty.
Plan: I would tear down the sheetrock and add the insulation. Hire an HVAC guy to extend the duct work to the garage. Hire a sheetrock guy to put up the new sheetrock for me. (HVAC and Sheetrock are not my thing [unsure]) I'd paint afterwards.
So, my questions are: 1. think it's worth it? 2. do people do this? 3. any benefit as far as house re-sale value?
Thanks for reading,
Frank