Prepping the garage Options

[hammar]

Just a thought...

If you're planning to heat/cool a garage 24/7 year round, treat it like the rest of the house. If you only plan to run the AC/heat on occasion, extra insulation above stopping full-on holes/air leaks may be a waste of money. Why you ask? If you're only going to be out there for 4-5 hours at a time, there's not as much of a concern for R-factor. You heat it up, you work,you go away. The furnace spends the lion's share of the energy getting that space up/down to temp vs. keeping it at temp. Insulations is irrelevent due to the fact that you don't need to maintain garage temps most of the time.

Amy and I are trying to decide how we go about dealing with climate control in our garage, this is the current arguemnt I'm struggling with. I'd appreciate any comments!

btw, epoxy floor covering (ours was from Sherwin-Williams) kicks ass......

Hammar