Cooling your garage

**pokey** · 05-23-2010, 09:56 PM

I know many of us heat our garages in the winter to work on our rides, but does anyone also cool it? It was 87 today and humid and the garage felt like an oven. My wife and i were out there together and I brought up the crazy idea of installing a couple of large ceiling fans to get air moving. Anyone else get creative when cooling their garage?

**Jenn1270** · 05-23-2010, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by pokey

I know many of us heat our garages in the winter to work on our rides, but does anyone also cool it? It was 87 today and humid and the garage felt like an oven. My wife and i were out there together and I brought up the crazy idea of installing a couple of large ceiling fans to get air moving. Anyone else get creative when cooling their garage?

I just have a huge oscillating fan to keep the air moving. Works quite nicely

**Shane731** · 05-23-2010, 10:19 PM

We have an old box floor fan like this one that I put on top of a couple Rubbermaid bins

Works pretty good.

**cnfowler** · 05-23-2010, 10:39 PM

I have a friend that has an air conditioned garage. It's like buffing out a car in your living room. Too bad he lives in Florida and I now live in Colorado. Oh yeah, my garage is cooled - I just open the door!

Colin

**CEE DOG** · 05-23-2010, 10:59 PM

I bought a dehumidifier to lower the humidity on bad days. I have a regular oscillating fan out there. Going to install a windo A/C unit soon for when I'm working out there.

**C. Charles Hahn** · 05-23-2010, 11:03 PM

I have a window air conditioner in my garage, along with a decent sized electric heater for winter. I can get the garage down to as low as 60 degrees when it's 90 outside, and up to about 70-75 in the winter when it's 20 degrees outside.

Works out perfectly for detailing purposes.

**maximus20895** · 05-24-2010, 12:04 AM

Wow, that must be nice.

**pokey** · 05-24-2010, 01:14 AM

Originally Posted by Shiny Lil Detlr

I have a window air conditioner in my garage, along with a decent sized electric heater for winter. I can get the garage down to as low as 60 degrees when it's 90 outside, and up to about 70-75 in the winter when it's 20 degrees outside.

Works out perfectly for detailing purposes.

Impressive! A window unit is out for me given the only window is to the front elevation of the home.

I am researching ceiling fans tonight and will have the electricians come by this week hopefully. An ideal solution is to have our central air unti flow into the garage as well. I can only imagine the electric bill though! Your window mount has inspired me into at least looking into central air for the garage. Thanks!

**Wax Gorilla** · 05-24-2010, 04:27 AM

Try the 9$ to 12$ Box Fans From Walmart. Two of those posistioned correctly may do the job. If they don't donate them to a local hom;ess shelter and take the next step.