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    What did you do "IN" your garage today?

    Sharpened my mower blades (first time this season)
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Tomato's Autohaus - Detached Garage Build

    Enjoying your build, & your car collection. I am finishing up a new shop myself, so have been looking thru this garage journal & found your build. For some reason I've been really fixed on getting an Audi & seeing all yours don't help me none! Larry
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    Radiant Heating questions

    just an FYI for comparision, my shop is 1060 square feet, 10' walls, half the shop has valted ceiling,5" slab, no insulation under slab but installed 2" foam board around the foundation from ground level down 2'. Using 3 300 ft. loops of 1/2" pex, & 1 40 gal. hot water tank with thermostat set...
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    Radiantec floor heat

    As Modsquad stated, if you use plywood or planks layed ofer the pex, youl be fine. pex is some tuff stuff. I talked to Radiantec when planning my shop, but ended up building my own manifolds. Hey Modsquad, you might rethink using the instant hot water heater, will be running constantly. The hot...
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    Preparing shop floor base for radiant heat

    Sid, I can explain my set up just to give you another example. My shop is 30X36' unattached, i used 3 300' loops of 1/2" pex tubing. (all heat is removed from tubing by the end of a 300' run) if I did it again I would use 3/4" tubing (better heat transfere because of more surface) Insulated the...
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