![]() ![]() Use good insulation around the edge of the slab, and underneath the edge for about 8' in from the walls. We keep the shop at about 58 to 60 degrees. They are both about the same area.3000 sq ft. Our highest gas bill (natural gas ) was about $320.about the same as our house. If I was putting ours in now, I would definately consider corn. has on-demand hot water boilers for $500 to $1000, so you could use one of those for now and convert to corn later. Corn boilers I've looked at seem to be in the $5000-7000 range.two neighbors just bought one each in Jan for around 5000, for 200,000 btu.that should be plenty for your shop unless you are trying to do driveway ice-melt. Water heaters have gone up.mine was $2000, now $3000. ![]() We used the 7/8 pex on 18" spacing, and have one big zone for the main shop floor, and a small zone for the office. $3000 to 4000 ought to get you the tubing, manifolds, pumps, and controls. We put it in our shop when we built it two years ago.have about $6000 in the whole system, including heat source.of course prices have gone up since then. IMHO, I would strongly recommend floor heat. Not as much and my shed is 2400 sq ft and did not use 400 gals of LP last year? Maybe you can put your money into the good insulation, floor piping and just use a forced air corn burner for now, then upgrade to corn boiler in the future for the floor heat Now is the time to put the floor heat in before you pour the floor - hard to do later. ![]() The well insulated floor and foundation should pay for itself in energy savings. Since it easy to make recommendations when it is not my money - what about doing an electric boiler for floor heat running with a cheap electric program if available and have the alternative heat source as a corn burner doing forced air? This way the floor is kept at a minimum level to keep you warm as you work yet economical to heat since the corn burner will do the major heating and help out a lot in the fast receovery when you open doors. We got some very much needed rain this weekend in Ontario and looking forward planting corn next week!!!! It will be 40x100 with 18ft ceiling and will have 2 30ft hydralift doors. I still would like to go with a corn boiler but maybe forced air with ceiling fans for circulation? I need some input fast as the shop is being built as we speak. So you can see this is really adding up, I've been told that infloor heating is effienct but I wonder if this is my best option?. We are talking about 10,000 for the corn boiler, 10,000 for the infloor heating and approx 3000 for the inground piping to go to the shop and to the house then there's the insulation under the floor at about 3000 and the wire floor in the cement adds another 900 bucks. My quotes are coming in and it's out of my price range. We are building a new shop right now and I've said to myself all along that it will be corn heat with in floor heating. Heating a 4000sqft shop? Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 ![]()
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