Question regarding heating a garage w/ OWB

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Jon_E

Burning Hunk
Feb 24, 2014
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SW VT
This may be a stupid question but someone needs to point me in the right direction, please? I am building a 3-bay garage and putting tubing in the slab for heat. My house basement has the same system, being fed with a Central Boiler through a plate-style heat exchanger, and there is a loop with several zones and circulator pumps for domestic hot water and heating.

For some reason, I am missing the simplicity of the installation for the garage. All I need to do is keep the garage slab warm during the winter and then shut off the loop in the summer. I can't figure out how to plumb this thing. Is there a diagram somewhere that shows how to heat a slab in an outbuilding that has no water source? I can fill the loop from a hose, but there's no other plumbing in the garage. It's gotta be the same scenario if one were to heat a barn, greenhouse or any other remote outbuilding? What am I missing?
 
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