Heating and cooling a Garage Studio

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Hi.

I am currently planning to remodel my 2.5 car garage into a recording facility. Wondering if anyone has ideas or recommendations of how I can heat and cool the garage. I know I can go all out and pay top dollar to get a full HVAC professionally installed, but of course there is always the budge issues. any suggestions are welcome, thank you.
 
Maybe you could go up in your attic and run some new ducts to the garage?

I don't know anything about it so that might not work. I would imagine that units are built/used to only heat and cool certain amounts of space. But certainly just a garage size area wouldn't over do it.

If you can't do that, you might want to consider an HVAC just for the garage. You have to be careful of noise levels...
 
Mini split

The soleus air stuff is great and way less expensive. it will also heat if you have the right model.
 
Innovate

Depends on budget and how nuts you are.
I am nuts, evidently. And cheap.
I have a high ceiling, so I have suspended a sub-ceiling, and ventilate the room with a remote fan. Exhaust and air movement are essential if you are gonna keep a closed space smelling half decent, especially if you are controlling humidity (which you should be doing). Fan noise is always the big problem, but drawing out of the plenum eliminates the sound.
Heating is no problem, provided you have the electrical capacity. I put in a new sub-panel and upgraded my main panel. I use baseboard heat to get through the winter. The control room, being well-insulated, is pretty much self heating, given all the glowing junk encased within.
Cooling is harder, as most units, even splits, make too much noise to record over. I (being nuts) (and cheap) use kind of a hybrid system- a standard wall unit to get the place cooled down and during practice sessions, and a weird setup using a cooling coil from an old a/c unit, hooked up to a garden hose both in and out. Then I use another remote fan to blow the cooled air into the room via a ceiling register. I water the garden while I'm recording. It's weird. It works. At least in the studio.
I'm still working on the control room...I wonder why the musicians refer to me as "stinky"?
 
don't forget to insulate the ceiling if it's not done yet.
it's relatively cheap, easy to do your self, and often garages aren't done when the house is built.
 
a lot can depend on where you live..
and if its already attached to the house, with a HVAC setup.. attic connection will probably work.. ive done it before on additions
 
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