[email protected] writes:
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>How do the pros heat their shops?!
>I have not seen them all, but the ones I have been in had funaces!
>Greg
My dream would be in-floor heating. Being able to use below-ground as the
heat source as they did in by-gone days would be ideal. I'm really
considering some day down the line of doing just that. It would mean
raising the garage floor for the extra concrete to hold the piping which
needs some careful thought but could work. In 1976, after buying my
Mercury Bobcat, I took a powderpuff mechanics class at our local college.
They have in-floor heat (electric there) in the shop and it's great!
Glenna
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Glenna Rose wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
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>>How do the pros heat their shops?!
>>I have not seen them all, but the ones I have been in had funaces!
>>Greg
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> My dream would be in-floor heating. Being able to use below-ground as the
> heat source as they did in by-gone days would be ideal. I'm really
> considering some day down the line of doing just that. It would mean
> raising the garage floor for the extra concrete to hold the piping which
> needs some careful thought but could work. In 1976, after buying my
> Mercury Bobcat, I took a powderpuff mechanics class at our local college.
> They have in-floor heat (electric there) in the shop and it's great!
Just make sure that it's repairable. I have a friend who used to have
in-floor heat in the house her father the architect built (not sarcasm-he
really was an architect and apparently a pretty good one--if his design
went bust anybody's can). One day one of the pipes busted and it turned
out that she could have forced-air heat and central air installed for not a
whole lot more than it would cost to tear up the floor and fix the pipe, so
she doesn't have in-floor heat anymore. Note that that wasn't just the
contractor's opinion--her brother, also an architect, agreed with the
assessment.
> Glenna
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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:15:27 -0800, [email protected] (Glenna Rose)
wrote:
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>My dream would be in-floor heating. Being able to use below-ground as the
>heat source as they did in by-gone days would be ideal. I'm really
>considering some day down the line of doing just that. It would mean
>raising the garage floor for the extra concrete to hold the piping which
>needs some careful thought but could work. In 1976, after buying my
>Mercury Bobcat, I took a powderpuff mechanics class at our local college.
>They have in-floor heat (electric there) in the shop and it's great!
>
>Glenna
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Lol....
I spend way too many winter evenings laying on cold concrete under a
car... (I restore & build cars as a hobby)... Spending a few thousand
dollars on a 4 post lift has kept me off the floor for the last 15 or
so years...lift worked so well I now have 2 of them plus a low level
lift just do do brake work with...
My wood shop however is now located on the second floor over one of my
garages ..heated by a 116,000 BTU natural gas furnace BUT my feet
still get a little chilly ...Guess I can't have everything...
Bob Griffiths