Iced coffee and cold feet
12/28/2025
There are two essential machines in my workshop in winter: a gas-powered heat gun - I know, they're called fan heaters - and a coffee machine. My windy shed is so permeable to air that you can see outside through the cracks in some of the walls.
There's always a little bit of the outside inside, or "semi-transparent walls"
This has certain advantages. It's relatively dry in the hall. Unless there is fog, then you can also feel it inside. The temperatures inside and outside are always about the same. This prevents condensation. And the cold also prevents you from dawdling around while working, typing a message into your cell phone or flicking through old magazines that are gathering dust on the shelves. So it's great when it's a bit cold in my workshop.
No, of course it's not! The clammy fingers after an hour become a problem, the cold creeps up your legs from your feet and literally gets to your kidneys. And the dripping nose gets on your nerves at some point. That's why I got myself the fan heater. It's always aimed at me at work. That way I'm heating up the air at certain points, so to speak. But I'm aware that I'm mainly blowing it into the air. You have to be able to work directly under the roof somehow, a high ceiling is not always an advantage. But I haven't had enough money for structural measures yet, the cars come first.
And then there's the coffee for the interior. Lots of it! So the workshop winter should be manageable. Because there is still a lot of work to be done and the next season will - hopefully - come sooner than expected.
