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You must also factor in the effiency. I got a good deal on a Buderus unit and they are about as efficient, for LP, as you can get. It seems like a really well designed unit but it would have been way too expensive is I hadn't got a deal from a friend who also wanted me to have a heated shop 
I would love to have an outdoor stove and clean scraps to feed it ! But they don't give those stoves away and people around here find out they don't last that long if they aren't stainless steel :{
I would love to live in Tenn and Les's $150/month to heat is about what I'm estimating and I know it's way colder here most of the time. Les do you have insulation under the floor?
Matt, I started a thread about 3 years ago asking about shops and there was some pretty good input. I did most of it, except I didn't want to have tie-downs in my concrete cause the croncrete is really expensive and I was trying to keep the stress risers to a mininum so it would hopefully never crack away from the zip strips. If you don't know what a zip strip is I'll show you.
That thread also convinced me that I needed a full bath. So I roughed it in vents and all. Maybe later this year I can add a small septic for it $$$
As pointed out, it's nice to have a cool shop in the summer. So rough in for a 2 ton wall unit and give some more money to the chinese. It will do the trick in the upper midwest.
I would love to have an outdoor stove and clean scraps to feed it ! But they don't give those stoves away and people around here find out they don't last that long if they aren't stainless steel :{
I would love to live in Tenn and Les's $150/month to heat is about what I'm estimating and I know it's way colder here most of the time. Les do you have insulation under the floor?
Matt, I started a thread about 3 years ago asking about shops and there was some pretty good input. I did most of it, except I didn't want to have tie-downs in my concrete cause the croncrete is really expensive and I was trying to keep the stress risers to a mininum so it would hopefully never crack away from the zip strips. If you don't know what a zip strip is I'll show you.
That thread also convinced me that I needed a full bath. So I roughed it in vents and all. Maybe later this year I can add a small septic for it $$$
As pointed out, it's nice to have a cool shop in the summer. So rough in for a 2 ton wall unit and give some more money to the chinese. It will do the trick in the upper midwest.
Taxes, that will be another story. 
