I usually cordon off part of my garage with plastic drop cloth hanging from the ceiling. It's 24 X 42 so I heat the back half where projects are, the front of everyday drivers are cold.
Plastic is not insulative, hard to roll up to the ceiling and kinda ugly. Those meat locker 6" wide overlapping strips would do a body good. My ceiling is 11 feet tall, so you're looking at 11 tall X 24 wide. My hope is to run a bar under the roof to pull these strips across like you see in the ERs (right, you've never been there)
Pull them to the sides, out of the way in the summer.
Got better ideas?
Love to hear from you.
Dan
EDIT:
Googling gives me Wal-Mart meat lockers and how to dry venison. Anything you have is better.
Thanx.
What you want are Strip doors for a loading dock
Grainger sells strip doors, too.
This is the best price I found: http://www.pvcstrip.com/
jg
Do those actually insulate? I always thought they were more bug-related.
JG Pasterjak wrote: This is the best price I found: http://www.pvcstrip.com/ jg
Well at least they take the "strip" part seriously.
grainger has them... mcmaster-carr has tons and tons of them.
I think northern tools sells them too. They are more expensive than you might think.
What about installing one of those sliding partitions like they use in schools? the ones that actually have insulating values....
The site JG put up (best price he found) will run me about $1000. The "door" to fill is 24 ft. wide by 11 tall.
It's not that cold yet, I'll keep looking. I was thinking the accordian type would be better because it was permanent and could be pushed out of the way in the summer.
If you see something let me know.
Thanx, Dan
If you use two, one in front of the other you will create "dead air" space and will increase the insulating properties.
Why not use the thickest plastic sheeting you can find hung with inexpensive shower curtain rings on a pipe hung at either end? Again x2 will give you the dead air space.
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