Shop heaters?
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floor heat in a shop is worth more then you can imagine.. radiant shop at 50 is nicer to work in then a forced hot air at 60+, trust me, logged a lot of hours in them.
can speak on the details of the furnace, we run a wood furnace at my folks house that heats house/garage.. but it would be way overkill for just a shop, it did heat for ~6000 sq feet of shop and house + all the hot water..
can speak on the details of the furnace, we run a wood furnace at my folks house that heats house/garage.. but it would be way overkill for just a shop, it did heat for ~6000 sq feet of shop and house + all the hot water..
just get a wall hung small condensing boiler for your floor heat supply with a low loss header..viesmann is a superb brand..very low flue temps and just vent out the side of your shop..other wall hung condensing boilesr are good as well...you can get real fancy with zurn manifolds for your loops with seperate thermostats lol..but just keep it simple....try and keep your floor loops under 300ft
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I just put in a big a$$ wood stove and built an oil burner in the side.
Now I can burn the 1000 gallons of waste oil I have. Dam,waste oil burns so hot the stove will glow red.
If I want to burn wood only I take out the oil burner and cap it off and have a nice air tight.
I have a propane heater as backup. Love the wood and oil heat.
Tar.
Now I can burn the 1000 gallons of waste oil I have. Dam,waste oil burns so hot the stove will glow red.
If I want to burn wood only I take out the oil burner and cap it off and have a nice air tight.
I have a propane heater as backup. Love the wood and oil heat.
Tar.
Describe how you plan to use it, now & in the future.
Heat in the floor ! Viesmann boiler . Hang it on the wall . Can do hot water for washing stuff also .If you need lots of hot water you will need a tank. I have there boilers and they have never let me down. They are german made . Not the cheapestbut you get what you pay for. You can open your door and pull out and close door and your floor is still nice and warm. You can pull in with samething full of snow and your floor will be dry when you back in the morning. Do put the pipes in the floor as you will never be sorry.
I have infloor heat at my office/warehouse close 7500 sq ft with two zones, one for the office and the other for the shop/warehouse. We run a NTI Trinity Ti 200,000 btu gas system. We built this place in 1998. The first boiler was a chity tank less water heater that the plumber installed it lasted about 10 years, with the last 4 on life support. Installed the new boiler in 2008 haven't had a problem, The new boiler was around $6500 plus $2000 to install it, we had two rework the system to upfit the bigger boiler.
have wood stove with waste oil burner built in, takes a little compressed air and used oil.heats my 2000 sq ft shop that is uninsulated to 60 or 65 when its 25-30 outside. you can put a boiler in the chimney pipe and pump it through the floor for radiant heat, lots of plans for these on the internet to build yourself.
generally we run our loops 6 to eight inches in from inside walls,16 inches skirting away from doorway/shop door entrys..and of couse a little ways away from toilet flanges if there wax...fernco make heat resistant one though..
We run our loops in a circular/rectangular fashion in sixteen inch spacing then run it back inbetween the sixteen so you average 8 inch spacing and your cooler return is running with the hotter supply rather then if you just run your loops up and down or back and forth your heat is diminshed and half your loop run is cool and so is that part of floor..and 300 foot runs max.and you can control each loop seperate or a few on a thermostat...but infloor is amazing..but like Mafesto said..you want to know where they are laying..but not the end of the world if ya hit a loop..little jackhammer and recouple..lol..we run the loops in 1/2 inch rehau and tiewrap to the rebar but now there is the tough rigid foam underlay that has the pipe channel retainers built in which is supposed to be awesome for laying the pipe
We run our loops in a circular/rectangular fashion in sixteen inch spacing then run it back inbetween the sixteen so you average 8 inch spacing and your cooler return is running with the hotter supply rather then if you just run your loops up and down or back and forth your heat is diminshed and half your loop run is cool and so is that part of floor..and 300 foot runs max.and you can control each loop seperate or a few on a thermostat...but infloor is amazing..but like Mafesto said..you want to know where they are laying..but not the end of the world if ya hit a loop..little jackhammer and recouple..lol..we run the loops in 1/2 inch rehau and tiewrap to the rebar but now there is the tough rigid foam underlay that has the pipe channel retainers built in which is supposed to be awesome for laying the pipe
propane is expensive, but way easier than getting wood. i use both in my shop.
I have a 30x40 insulated (including the door) garage and I use a 265000 btu forced air portable diesel heater with a thermosdat...usually kick it on for about 10-15 minutes before I go out there to work then turn it down to minimum while I'm workin. Keeps it about 60 or so which I think is perfect to work in. Any hotter and I'm sweatin while I'm working.
Pros: Its easy to move and direct the heat exactly where you want it or point it in the center of the shop and heat the whole boulding.
Cons: Gotta lug a cuple cans of diesel in and fill it every once in a while, but I dont use my shop daily so not a huge deal to me. Also fumes from combustion are an issue...I just crack a window and I dont even notice it.
But if I were to build my shop again I would definitly look heavily into floor heat! Sounds like an awesome set-up! You can even put it in your driveway and sidewalk and never have to shovel snow again!!
Pros: Its easy to move and direct the heat exactly where you want it or point it in the center of the shop and heat the whole boulding.
Cons: Gotta lug a cuple cans of diesel in and fill it every once in a while, but I dont use my shop daily so not a huge deal to me. Also fumes from combustion are an issue...I just crack a window and I dont even notice it.
But if I were to build my shop again I would definitly look heavily into floor heat! Sounds like an awesome set-up! You can even put it in your driveway and sidewalk and never have to shovel snow again!!
