Garage performance, tested.

"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97) 11/13/2018 at 11:57 • Filed to: None

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The overnight low was 19 degrees (nonsensical units) in Southern New Mexico last night, which was by far the coldest temperature we’ve seen since buying the house in March. This is also unseasonably cold for this time of year here, which means people are walking around wearing fur in the desert this morning. The garage was a reasonable 52 degrees when I left for work. This is about five degrees colder than the garage at the old house would’ve been in the same temperatures, but this garage has three exterior walls instead of two and an uninsulated door. Overall, better than I was expecting, and I won’t need to bother putting any antifreeze in the racecar’s cooling system next winter.

Fun fact: the thermometer on the wall was an Amazon screwup. A few years ago I had ordered two gallons of BMW smurf blood blue coolant for the E39 for the thermostat replacement job and th ey sent me a box of two indoor/outdoor thermometers instead. In the end Amazon next day aired me the BMW coolant and said not to bother sending the thermometers back

vicali > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 11/13/2018 at 12:00

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Mid- winter temps will explode pop cans in our garage..

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > vicali 11/13/2018 at 12:24

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For us, this is as cold as it normally ever gets here. The day in 2011 with a low of -6, a high of 1 and 90 hours continiously below freezing that resulted in rolling blackouts in the region and burst pipes in  probably 50% of the buildings in the city was more of a once or twice in a century type event.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > vicali 11/13/2018 at 12:39

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Hell late-fall/early-spring temps will do that around here.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 11/13/2018 at 12:41

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That’s not bad at all. My garage is insulated and has 2.5 exterior walls with an un- insulated door. With the heat off it  generally stays right in the middle of what it is in our house vs outside which usually means above freezing but we do get below zero here regularly too at which point my garage generally drops below freezing.

Nom De Plume > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 11/13/2018 at 13:20

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From the cold.  Mid-Summer heat will boil it open.

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 11/13/2018 at 14:38

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Not sure if your place is set up this way, but my NM house had the washer in the garage. Just be mindful in case the temp keeps dropping.  We would always have a week where it never got above -10 and then shit got real. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 11/13/2018 at 14:45

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Our washer and dryer are in the house, with a laundry room off of the kitchen. In Abq, the house I grew up in was as you described with the washer and dryer in the garage. We used to throw a drop light with a 100 watt bulb inside the washer overnight when needed.