I finally went to China Mart yesterday and picked up one of their little $98 window a/c units for my reloading shed.  I started reloading out there in January, ran power to the shed in April, and have been enduring non-air conditioned reloading sessions until today.  Mostly I just reloaded in the evenings and after dark with a fan blowing.  But now with 100 degree days, even the nights are uncomfortable with just a fan blowing on you.

NOT ANYMORE!!!  I borrowed a sawzall today, knocked a hole in the wall, and framed up an opening for my new best friend.  THIS THING IS SWEET!!  My wife may never see me anymore!  The progression from storage shed to mancave continues.

Pictures or it didn't happen
 

I didn't get any before or during construction pics, but here she is in all her installed and cold-air blowing glory:

Great job, I'm in the process of making my own "man shed" ;)

I could have used one of those today .  Good going.

i am fortunate that my loading room is in my spare bedroom so i have central air in there.

congrats cause it would suck to load in my garage today 90+ deg out and humid. went to the range today and only shot 20 test loads and cooked.

I will be doing the same thing when I get home.

I couldn't imagine reloading in Florida with out a a/c specially with the humidity..

Awesome! I couldn't imagine reloading in the shed during summertime without AC. I had thought about setting up my press in the work shed as well but decided against it for that very reason. There is a little AC unit currently in there but that still doesn't make it comfortable, just bearable.

Until I decided I wanted to get into reloading, the shed was just a shed.  It finally made sense to add another roof off the side of the shed to keep my mowers under, and get them out of inside the shed so I could build a bench in there.  I knew it was going to have to have power at some point, but from January through April I was reloading with a fluorescent study lamp powered by an inverter and a trolling motor battery.  

I finally ran power (about 150' through the backyard and woods) to the shed in April, and scavenged a 4' fluorescent overhead fixture.  That made the shed a whole lot brighter, but not any cooler.  A box fan moved the air but didn't lower the temperature.

It finally got unbearable this week.  I haven't been at all excited about going out there and reloading, so I finally bit the bullet (so to speak) and picked up the A/C unit.  If I can find room to get a few other things out of the shed too, I might make room for a loveseat that we have in storage next.  

nice....its amazing what we reloaders do for the sake of reloading a? lol

I would be interested in seeing pictures of the rest of the inside, just for ideas

I bet you'd never catch Jim Bridger or Jed Smith loading in the AC.....

I finally admitted my problem a week or so ago when I realized I was dripping sweat into my primed and charged cases in a loading block.  

I will try to get a few more pics of the shed in the next day or so for the gentleman who is interested.  Basically, one side of my shed has the reloading bench, and the other side has assorted junk (old backpack, fuel cans, old outboard motor, etc) that I need to find a better place for.  

The older I get the less I like/tolerate the heat.  

I load in the spare bedroom, 2 ac units in the house keep it 70-74 F.  As a youth I used to reload in the attic and would be stifling just under them dark gray slates and I'd have to constantly guard against rust in the humidity.

I would suggest adding insulation.  It's relatively cheap and that way if you keep the AC on, your powder and primers won't be as subject to the temperature changes either.  

I'll also say that I'd enjoy seeing pictures of your setup.

Lucky dog!! Mine you could smoke meat in right now

I do have a old window unit but haven't had time to cut the hole in the wall and fix it up so it can be used.

Here's the shed that was in the woods when we bought the house in 2005... Formerly used to store my lawnmowers and other stuff in.  This spring Dad and I added the roof extension to the side to get my mowers et al out of the shed so I could put a bench in there... still haven't gotten around to put siding up.


We ran 150' of 10/3 direct-bury copper wire from my fuse box, underground through the backyard and through the woods to the shed, and wired up some outlets in April.  Twas a good day! I still only had lights and a fan though, no a/c yet.

Ya'll saw the pic above of the inside of the unit.  Here's the outside:


I realized after I made the cut that I left some framing exposed through the siding... nothing a little roofing tar won't fix!  

Here's the side of my shed still filled with crap:


Aaaand, here's my bench:

That's a Lyman Spartan press I inherited from my uncle in the foreground, the Rockchucker I got for Christmas in the background.  I just started reloading in January.



Bullets and powders on the shelf, brass on the floor:


Here's the study lamp I used to light the bench via my trolling motor battery prior to getting the shed wired:

It's a WHOLE lot brighter in there now with a 4' overhead fluorescent fixture that I picked up from a place that was throwing it out.

Starting to decorate (I'm a Mississippi State fan, found this in a sports store in Georgia over spring break.  It's from the 1998 SEC Championship game):


Hopefully I'll have enough at the end of this month to add a progressive press to the bench.  I don't really use the Lyman for anything except occasional decapping.

Second what others have said about insulation...for a little bit of expense you could seal that up alot better and stay much cooler (and warmer) as well...
 

Whether you're in "sticky hot" northern Mississippi, or in "dripping wet Gulf Coast" territory, you WANT insulation in that shed.  The money you save on electricity will pay for a lot of components, and your stuff will be less likely to suffer when you turn off the AC and go back to the house.

I'll insulate as soon as I can.  I'd like to make the shed more habitable, and I know insulation would be nice.  Not sure I'm willing to sheetrock over it though.  

Cheap 1/4" plywood would work just as well in a "work room" shed.  Sheetrock would definitely be overdoing it, but having smooth, consistent wall surfaces is good for practical reasons, including protecting the vapor barrier side of the insulation.

or paneling

need insulation and paneling