[Jewelry making - Article 00181] - [Orchid] Workshop heating and cooling.

[John Burgess]

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    One solution for safe heating of spaces like big sheds, garages, etc
    is first to insulate the place properly.  Which will be costly, but
    you will get a pay back from  money saved in power or fuel; regard it
    as an investment.  And what's more, you can buy the odd batch of
    insulation when you can afford it and so on. You'll be surprised
    about how much warmer the place seems. 

    The next investment - literally - is a heat pump.   Now most folk
    know that "heat won't flow from a colder to a hotter, and if you
    think it will you really didn't oughter".   But a heat pump works
    exactly like your refrigerator; put your hand at the back and you
    will feel the heat being  transferred from the fridge to the
    atmosphere.  So a heat pump does just that.  It will take heat from
    outside and pump it into your garage space, (even on a freezing cold
    day) and as a bonus in the summer time it will remove heat - and
    moisture - from inside to outside.  Most have a fan which distributes
    warmed or cooled air nicely around.   Yes, they are costly to
    install.   We have had one in temperate Mapua for over 8 years and
    wouldn't be without it. Running cost?  Well, for every 3.2 kilowatts
    of power it uses we get 5.8 Kw of heat!  Which warms the whole house.
    And we can set the temperature to whatever we want.  We can even dry
    the place on a humid day.  You should see the condensed moisture
    trickling out of the drainage pipe! -- Cheers for now, 

John Burgess;   johnb AT ts.co.nz of Mapua, Nelson NZ

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