Posted by jogl on January 14, 2009 at 02:59:36 from (209.216.155.181):
In Reply to: Heated shop floor posted by NY 986 on January 13, 2009 at 10:37:08:
I installed ours similar to the above with a few exceptions. I put the pex in on 3' spacings because in the start the floor heat was only meant to be supplementary. Also, I did not use "Styrofoam SM" under the slab because it would cost too much and as noted the floor heat was only meant to be sup. I did put SM under the floor for the first 4' around the edges and for 2' down the outside of the rat wall. Also, we have 16" of topsoil that I removed and replaced with packed sand and then put another 16" of A gravel on top of that (with geo-fibre between the sand and gravel) and then the 8" of concrete with pex.
We have found that if we get the shop to 55*F it is just right to work in coveralls. Feet that are not cold make a big difference, as noted.
We also found that the 3' spacing is good enough to heat the building, never had to add the other heaters that I planned to. However, the barn doubles as vegetable storage and it helps to have all the thermal mass of the 'taters in there.
Our building is 5000 sq ft with R30 walls and R40 ceiling.
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