Hotter Than Hell in my screen printing shop today! Any suggestions to keep it cooler?
This is ridiculous! It had to be 110 deg. in my shop today. The flash was on, the dryer was on, and it was hot outside!
We have one big fan to blow some air around. The AC works perfect in the front office area, but the warehouse is an oven! What the hell?!? What do you guys do to make it liveable in your printing area with the dryers going?
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Im glad Im not the only one! Im in Texas and I print D.I.Y right out of my garage... When I moved into my new house I thought it was a cool idea to paint my entire garage black??? And yea, its safe to say Im sweating my tail off every day. No matter how many fans, or if I print during the night! Its hot!!!
I have no A/C in my garage! But, Im right there with you! I hate the heat!!!
Our shop is two stories and it gets hotter than snot. In the summer we come in early in the morning and go off mid-afternoon. We have a extra powerful fan installed into one wall upstairs to suck out all the hot air that is trapped in the building all night. The scary thing is that we have 4 industrial air conditioning units on our roof and it is still very uncomfortable sometimes. The main thing you have to be careful of is having too much air blowing around that it might mess up the cure in your dryer.
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Re: Hotter Than Hell in my screen printing shop today! Any suggestions to keep it cooler?
if you can.... blow air in on the cool side of the building...if there is a window/etc..... also try to circulate the high heat thats trapped .... get a few box fans and keep that heat out of the attic/rafters/etc....... install roof vents if possible.....
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I think your best option will be to look at extraction rather than moving hot air around, the catch is if your pumping the heat out it will be pulling air back in (unless your doing well and are happy to pay for refrigerative aircon of course!) so your only realistically going to be able to keep it to the temperature outside. Evap cooling introduces humidity so generally not viable of course!
If you can cross ventilate that will make a big difference but if you have a shop at the front with AC (and I am assuming it is "sealed" off from the workshop area) then the only opening is probably the roller door. Is there some windows you can open to create a natural breeze? (try to use thermal dynamics and the local wind pattern to your advantage if you can)
Can you perhaps move the layout around so the "hot" equipment is closer to the door/extraction area? Or can you add an extraction system above them similar to a fume extraction system vented to the outside?
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Re: Hotter Than Hell in my screen printing shop today! Any suggestions to keep it cooler?
hence pull air in from the cool side of the building...mainly the north since its in the shade..... the south side of buildings are normally always in the sun.......
other things.... are you in a garage with a high roof?..... gotta vent the roof or the heat will sit there..
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you can keep that heat.. thats the reason i moved to the NC mountains to get away from that heat.. i mean now if its 85-90 its hot lol and im from fayetteville so i used to work out in the heat all the time no problem.. not now.. my shop is hot though.. computer repair.. with computers running it gets kinda stuffy.. i have a big squirrel cage fan that blows out the door.. does pretty good..
Re: Hotter Than Hell in my screen printing shop today! Any suggestions to keep it cooler?
Welcome to The World of screen printing...lol Were in Dallas Tx and you can't A/C production and make any money.
We start at 6 AM till 4PM, We have 3 overhead doors that are open, 2 roof exhausts fans and its still hot!! I guess its part of the business because you have to stay competitive.
Re: Hotter Than Hell in my screen printing shop today! Any suggestions to keep it cooler?
When i had a similar problem, i purchased a "way-cool", evaporative water chiller. This is the sort of thing designed for sideline cooling. It chilled the humid air of georgia, 10-15 degrees.
A handy person could make something similar much cheaper, but i was desperate!
Similar units are used to cool computer equipment.
The biggest PITA was the water needed to be refilled every day. YES, you want the auto water shutoff!!!
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