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Temperature guidelines for garage

  • 24-07-2014 8:05am
    #1
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭


    Our garage houses a 500l solar storage tank as well as the gas boiler, although normally both of them wouldn't be in use at the same time.

    These days the tank is in or around 60 degrees most days, up to 70 degrees on the really hot ones. When the maximum temperature is reached it dumps the heat to a radiator in the same room. The front door of the garage is just a wooden door, with no insulation, and there is an air vent (just a big hole in the wall really) in the room, venting to outside.

    What we find is that the garage is getting very hot these days, and the venting doesn't seem to be achieving a whole bunch.

    Yesterday evening when I came home, the room was ~30 degrees.

    Is there a guideline for maximum ambient temperature for rooms such as this? 30 degrees seems pretty high, but I don't know if it's enough to damage stuff stored in the garage. It certainly feels like things like rubber grips on the bike handlebars are suffering at least in the short term.

    At what temperature should I start to worry (or worry more, really)?

    Thanks,

    z


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  • #2
    DGOBS
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭DGOBS


    Really depends on what stuff is in your garage!

    It's 26ºC here today, so your only heating by 4ºC


  • #3
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    Yesterday when I checked it was the evening, so it wasn't just going from 26 to 30. However, it was "just" 30. I can live with 30 degrees. I can probably live with 35. 40 . . . seems to be a bit high. I'm really just looking for other peoples views/experience on what would temperature would be considered a problem.

    Most of the equipment in the room is heating related, so it's all rated to operate at high temperatures anyway.

    My query really is what sort of temperature would people start to worry at? I'm trying to work out whether I need to install additional ventilation. Bear in mind that when the solar tank reaches the maximum temperature the excess will be dumped (via a radiator) into the air in the same room. At that point the water coming from the roof to the radiator will be around 70 degrees, so there will be a swift increase in temperature in the room.

    z


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