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Re: Who has radiant floor heat in there workshop?
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Posted by Kent in KC on March 22, 2007 at 06:52:49 from (24.123.98.130):
In Reply to: Who has radiant floor heat in there workshop? posted by Randy in Pa on March 22, 2007 at 04:53:24:
Heating a slab can take a few hours, say eight, so you have to plan ahead or use a programmable thermostat (which I do anyway). In my upstairs we put down Warmboard which is an aluminum clad 1 1/4" subfloor with routed grooves for the PEX to lay in. I don't see why you couldn't use that stuff to make radiant walls. It heats up (and cools down) in about an hour so at night you drop the temps (again the programmable thermostat). Another nice thing about Warmboard is, if you do drill (or as I did) screw a hole in a tube, you can use a PEX union joint to fix it. Can't do that quite so easy if your tube is in a slab, needless to say. And, yes, you can rely on it as the sole heat source. In fact, if you use a gas hot water tank (I have two 40 gals) or some other non-electric heat source, you can heat your building in a power failure easily since the pump that circulates the water through the floor doesn't need much power. A small gennie or solar/battery pack could do it, no prob.
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