How to keep garage warm or cool and any issues with equipment

[jasonreg]

I use a similar Lennox Gas Product. I am in Ottawa FWIW. 3 car garage, kept at 15 degrees C. No Cooling option though the garage never really gets that warm.

[DejaVu]

I use a wood burner and a portable ac unit with an attic fan mounted in the roof. It gets below 0 Fahrenheit and up to 100 before I heat/cool...no equipment issues to date.

[chip_shot]

I bought this guy for mine, works phenomenally well, not sure a heat pump would do well in -10C though, heat pumps performance will drop off in heating mode in extreme cold https://www.alpinehomeair.com/viewpr...ctID=453077954

[3on3putt]

What part of Raleigh? I'm in Holly Springs

[Joe M]

My SIM is in my basement but I have a separate two car garage that also has a small kitchen and full bathroom for my pool area. I use a Daiken 3 ton mini split with 4 heads and keep the garage and kitchen / bath at 64 degrees f during winter and 77 degrees f in summer. I live in the northeast. I would highly recommend. The unit has a high seer rating and uses little electricity. Also the mini split worked when we saw temperatures at -5 degrees f a few years ago. BTW I was so impressed with the technology that when I finished my basement I did not tap into existing ductwork but installed a 1.5 ton daiken mini split in a central location to heat and cool my basement. They are extremely quiet and work fantastic. I purchased the complete package on Amazon for less than $1,000. Easy to install.

[Treyc321]

Hmmm well I may be just sweating like I do on the regular course haha

[Jnc10]

I have a mini split installed as well. Works great for heating and cooling. The hvac guy ran the pipes through the crawl space out to the side of the house with the other condensers. I live near Raleigh nc mostly colling but this time of year I do have to heat the garage a little

[GungHoGolf]

It lowered the temp maybe 5-8 degrees or so during the hottest period of the month - wasn't worth it. Then just stopped working altogether, about a week past the end of the 12 month warranty period.

[Golfallday1983]

I’ve used a portable air conditioner they are pretty bad

[Treyc321]

Ron, did the portable work at all? I have a garage where a mini split probably won’t work because of the condenser so portable will be my option...(mostly for cooling as I’m in AZ)

[GungHoGolf]

I love my mini-split, use it in a 20x30' garage with 13' ceilings in Austin (so mostly cooling, but also some heating for a couple months). Only $1100 plus installation. Senville 24,000 btu on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3msvDAE. Our garage now feels as comfortable as our house 24/7.

Don't waste $300-400 on a portable ac/heater like I did.

[Golfallday1983]

What about cooling?

im told the equipment will not last as long if you run it in hot or cold conditions so I’m looking to maintain a year round temperature of say 15 winters and 25 Celsius summers

my garage I don’t think goes too far below 0 it’s finished

[richerod]

I too have a three car garage with 12' ceilings in North East. . My simulator is in the middle bay with screen opposite center garage door. I recently had two of these heaters installed. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It's snowing here and the garage is a toasty 70 degrees. I don't leave them running all the time. When I know I'm going to play or practice I turn them on about 15-20 minutes before. So far so good. As for the warmer months, I haven't settled on a solution yet.

[Golfallday1983]

I live in Ontario where we get some really cold and really hot weather. I am setting my sim up in a finished garage the temp can get as low as -10 Celsius and as hot as 30.

I am in a 3 bay garage I plan to try to isolate the one bay with the sim and then use a thick curtain to seperate it from the rest of the garage then maybe install a mini split? Or is there a cheaper option?

How does cold or hot weather effect equipment?