Several posters have pointed out that there is no "instant" warm up with in-floor heating.
If I wasn't going to keep the heat on, I'd certainly use some type of anti-freeze in the tubing. My worry, without anti-freeze, would be expansion of the tubing when it froze. I think it would pop up the concrete over the tubing, much like a rebar rusting in a bridge deck.
My son built a 30X50 shop with hot water in-floor heat. It was nice - he used an electric boiler that looked suspiciously like an electric water heater. No anti-freeze, but we're in southern Illinois. He set the thermostat on the lowest setting and left it alone.
I worked with a guy who bought a house with in-floor hot water heat. Concrete floors, nice modern gas boiler. He was a tightwad, and waited 'til it got to 40 degrees before he turned the heat on. Took three days steady burning to get the house warmed up. Lotsa mass in that conc floor. Probably didn't save much money.
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