Recent content by radrace19

My dad in Florida takes his down for winter and up in the summer haha. The lights are just the standard 8' Barriea LED's from Amazon. I have 10 eight footers in one half of the garage and need to buy another pack for the 2nd half. -Greg

I installed 2" foam board on the inside for the winters here. I'll remove them when I turn the heat off in the spring. The two wood strips on the steel are perminant install, the other two braces just slide into place to hold the foam up.

My red iron building I built last year included stamped drawings, but no foundation drawings. I had to contact a local architect to have them drawn up for the local building department here in NE Ohio. So be sure to account for that also. -Greg

Yes, the pump is pulling from the floor and pushing to the water tank. I'm getting just at .5gpm per 1/2" run using the Taco 007e pump. I'm not sure if the pump is just undersized and/or I need more BTU's (42,000btu water heater). I'm getting a pretty large inlet and out let temp difference...

So the pump is actually pumping in the correct direction, but I have it after the floor, since I figure it might be better to pump cooler water. What might the advantage be of moving the pump to the location you suggested? I actually had to remove the two rubber heat traps from the hot water...

Just over 1200 sqft. I like it so far, but it hasn't gotten real cold in NE Ohio yet. Seems to be holding 60 degrees pretty easily. The Nest E thermostat has an in-floor radiant heat option which is interesting. It seems to cycle the pump much less than the forced air option I originally...

I figured I would post a picture of my setup. The only part I'm not happy with is the two connector pipes to the water heater. I had the heater as a spare, so I figured I would try it.