Recent content by swvega

Pull the pipe out as you dont want that inside your walls. Then go get some 2x4s and if your 5 ft on center on the post get either 10 or 20 footers. Less cutting and waste that way. Install them on the inside of your post either at 16" or 24" on center. Just the way they did your outside wall...

Go with the steel not that bad on price easy to install and you can wash it down if it get dusty. I put tin on the ceiling of my 30x60 and used osb on the side walls. Makes it easier if you want to add cabinets or hang anything on walls.

I just got a hydro smart 170 ng boiler for my in floor heat system. Hydro smart says to run two pumps. One to run boiler and one to run floor pexs.So you can run both systems at different speeds. This I understand but if the system is tee'd off to run the floor pexs and it's at a faster speed...

I've been told that if you run that kind of temp in the floor it will destroy your concrete. Makes it fall apart. Temp of floor should stay about 80-90.

Yes thats what they said I have to do. If I dont no warranty on the boiler.

Talked to hydro smart this morning and they said I need two pumps. One at a slower speed running though the boiler and one running the floor tubes at a higher speed. Or it is hard on the boiler.

thermostat if at all possible sould be about head high and behind the furnace if at all possible.

The boiler I have is a menards hydro smart 170 gas.

Do you really need two pumps to make a simple one zone in floor heat system work? The insturctions that came with the boiler shows two pumps on system. I've got a 1800 sq ft building with 6 runs of just under 300 ft of pexs. All the floor will be at same temp to heat shop to 50-55.So why...

SCORE. I just bought a hydro smart boiler from a guy who was about to have his home repoed. He started a remodel and didnt get it finished. It's a hydro smart 170 gas boiler new never run with the stainless pipe for the wall. All for $650.

Best thing for a wood stove is two 55 gal. barrels and a northern or harbor freight stove door kit. Just keep it away from walls and anything that will burn and be sure to open it up once in a while to keep pipes clean.Make great heat.

Back in the early 80s I took and old iron fuel oil stove that stopped working and removed the burner. Then made a 1/4 thick steel box that I welded to the opening where burner was removed with a barrel stove door on it. You could put about 24" wood in it. Once it got hot a little you turned on...

I'VE GOT A 30X60 MORTON IN MN. SO A LITTLE COLDER THAN YOU ARE. My trusses are at 7'6'' what I did was run a 2x4 on the bottom of the truss every 2' then put up vapor barrier and then my tin screwed to the 2x4s. Was told I could just put tin to trusses but didn't like that much span. I've got...

It has 3 side windows, two 3' walk though doors, and a 10x10 and a14x14 overhead doors. It seems to lose about 25-30 degress in 24 hrs.By that I mean I had the shop at 55 last winter I turned the heat off and it was still above 35, 24 hrs later.It got down between 10-19 below zero that night and...

Dry wall seems cheaper then steel untill you add in extra weight, taping, primer, paint, not water proof. You can wash the tin if need be. All of a sudden tin doesn't look that bad.