Our forever home

Wildride47 · Jan 5, 2015

Long story shortened, July 2013 I took a new job 90 miles from the home we've lived in for the last 23 years. 9 months later we found a 10 acre property near the plant and here we are. It's taken another 7 months but finally getting my biggest wish answered... My barn is being built, hoot hoot!!

40' x 70' with 14' sidewalls and concrete floor. I've asked for 2 overhead doors and two man doors. The weather isn't helping the build but the guys are toughing it out.

Wildride47 · Jan 5, 2015

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17F and -10 windchill today. 4" of snow overnight and windchills near -20 for tomorrow. Not sure if the guys will be back in this cold but they've made good progress so far.

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larry@stinescorner · Jan 5, 2015

very nice! what state is it?

Wildride47 · Jan 5, 2015

West Michigan south of Grand Rapids.

Animal · Jan 5, 2015

Do yourself a big favor and plumb it for floor heat before you pour the floor..

Ted in NE-OH · Jan 5, 2015

Floor heat is good if you use your building a lot as you have to keep the hear up to where you want it ALL the time. I like to save heat and keep my shop at 45 deg when not working and it will heat to 65 deg in 15 min so I have an overhead forced air heater.

Rick Kr · Jan 6, 2015

Very nice. South of GR is a nice area. Nothing like a nice shop to work in. I did a 40 x 60 x 14.

As others have said, IF you are going to be in it every single day, I would put floor radiant in it.

For mine, I put in an overhead radiant (tube heater). Works great. Keep it 40-45f, then turn it up to 60-65f for the weekend. Warms up quick and is easy to heat.

Rick

Jim in N.M. · Jan 6, 2015

Look into "Gordon Ray" Radiant over head tube type
! I've used it two of my buildings, VERY economical
. It heats objects and the floor. You can buy them
in 10 ft./20 ft/ and thirty ft. or almost any size
you want.......Just my .02 cents worth! Jim in N.M.

johnlobb · Jan 6, 2015

You near Hopkins? In the middle '90's I ran a job a little south of Hopkins where we pulled a 8" natural gas line off a Consumers Power high pressure main to go into Allegan where there is a large pharmaceutical manufacturer of generic drugs. They already had one gas line into the plant from Michcon, but another line from another supplier would allow them to choose the lowest price supplier of energy. What we did was to build a heater and odorizer and pressure reducing station where the high pressure gas came off the main pipeline.

Wildride47 · Jan 6, 2015

(quoted from post at 15:29:30 01/06/15) You near Hopkins? In the middle '90's I ran a job a little south of Hopkins where we pulled a 8" natural gas line off a Consumers Power high pressure main to go into Allegan where there is a large pharmaceutical manufacturer of generic drugs. They already had one gas line into the plant from Michcon, but another line from another supplier would allow them to choose the lowest price supplier of energy. What we did was to build a heater and odorizer and pressure reducing station where the high pressure gas came off the main pipeline.

Very close, I'm just just a bit farther north than that. I am looking at radiant heat. I've worked in a barn with in floor heat, it was great. The team was back today at 7F. They are making great progress.

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