CAB50 installed in workshop.. finally!

[Vinculum]

I just installed an Eco-Choice Cab50 in my large, well insulated workshop. I haven't fired it up yet, as we're expecting to be in the 60's tomorrow. (and snow by Wednesday!) I want to add a few wall clamps to the Duravent and eventually get a wifi connected thermostat once reliability has been proven. Its technically a little undersized for the space, but the building is well insulated and should take the chill off and enable me to work on projects through the winter.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Now if they just come up with a freestanding pellet burner with a water jacket, I'll hook it up to my PEX system in the shop. I heat the entire shop 40x80 with a 30 gallon propane HWH. Get the floor up to 80 in the fall and she's good to go all winter.

Once you go to a heated floor, forced air anything is second fiddle.

 

[Vinculum]

I hear ya! I wish I had done that when my 40x60 floor was poured, but it just wasn't in the budget. My slab is 6" all around, instead of the standard 4" and the mass really keeps the temps stable. Its never dropped below freezing inside with no heat, even during those weeks of subzero temps last season.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Mine is 8" thick on a sand base with 4" of foam over visqueen and 6" in the rat walls but I have machine tools in the shop and farm tractors so the thicker, the better I did my own PEX, was easy actually.. The big expense was the manifolds and zone valves... and filling it with propolyene glycol. Hapiness is laying on a warm floor working on something. One thing about in floor heat is it really don't warm the air. My anbient is usually arounf 60, about 20 colder than the floor. You get 100,000 pounds of concrete up to temp and it don't take much to keep it there.