Tom Baugues
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My "shop" is in the end of a storage shed I had build a few years back. It has a metal roof with no decking and 2x4 trusses. I insulated the walls with fiberglass and put up chipboard for walls but at the time I simply installed some 1/2" pink foam board panels between the 2x4 studs in the ceiling and called it good. I don't heat the shop full time nor do I run an air conditioner although it can get very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter inside this shop. When I want to work in the shop during the winter I have a couple small electric oil filled type heaters I turn on to provide heat which works great. No open flame or red hot heating element to cause a fire. Anyway, over the past several years the foam panels have shifted around to the point where I now have pretty big gaps and I lose heat very quickly so I would like to insulate the ceiling roof better than just pushing these panels back into place. Since it is a metal roof is there anything special I should consider? I usually don't heat the shop for more than a week or so at a time in the coldest weather. Even then I turn the heat down to about 45-50 degrees during the nighttime.
Since I only heat the shop for short periods I'm guessing I wont have to worry too much about condensation so I'm thinking about simply putting fiberglass insulation up between the trusses against the metal roof panels then a plastic sheet to cover the insulation from inside the shop. I may also just cover the whole ceiling with a thin layer of wood panels of some sort like sub-flooring panels.
Is there a better more economical way? Should I consider a foil faced insulation?
Since I only heat the shop for short periods I'm guessing I wont have to worry too much about condensation so I'm thinking about simply putting fiberglass insulation up between the trusses against the metal roof panels then a plastic sheet to cover the insulation from inside the shop. I may also just cover the whole ceiling with a thin layer of wood panels of some sort like sub-flooring panels.
Is there a better more economical way? Should I consider a foil faced insulation?
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