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After some digging... it seems that the thermostat was setup incorrectly for 2 stages of heat pump plus aux, when it was really just a single stage heat pump.

Just bought a property that has a Water Furnace brand geothermal system installed in a (insulated) barn. I've been trying to familiarize myself with the equipment and controls and find myself puzzled. Couldn't find any groups specifically for Water Furnace, so hoping that someone in here has...

Follow up 3 years later… what did you find? Just moved into a house with this exact same unit, with oil aux heat. Probably about impossible to evaluate where the crossover should be unless I had a way to measure oil consumption vs electric use and do all the calculations. Heating season is...

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My lift is 13’ to the wall in front, with about 2’ of workbench/toolboxes against the wall. It is perfect space for working on most cars (bench and tools are close but not too close). When I put a truck on it, it fits but space is tight. With a car, I need to move the toolbox to use an engine...

A standard garage door track needs 12-15” of headroom. The low headroom setups can be down in the 6” range.

I really think you'd be better off with 2 doors and the lift just inside one of them, and I don't see why that can't be done. Your walls are 14', so the scissor truss is basically only to make room for the header and garage door tracks. My scissor trusses are 2/12 on the bottom, so even if you...

I can host the Columbus Garage Journal Conference.

Yeah, I think the previous owners were planning on using it as wedding venue. The stairs, walkway, insulation, and geothermal were all done in the last few years. The stairs and walkway take up 18' of the 36' depth behind the large door, so even with a generous 4' stairway and 4' walkway that...

Well I didn't know that was what it was called, but apparently so. It also has a hay hoist but I'm not sure how functional it is.

Here's the rest of the pics I have. All them are from the RE listing. The stairs and walkway are recently constructed. The floor of the area to the left of the big door is OSB, so not sure if that is newly constructed or just a new floor.

The smaller door is 11' wide. If I were to add doors on the side I don't think they would be any wider than that, so I wouldn't expect it to need a header that is anything more than what the 11' door has. My only thought on the smaller door is that if I had 2 doors on the same corner, that...

I wondered what this brace was for. I guess it is to brace the wall in the areas where they aren't tied together.

Any suggestions on where to find simple models of cars and such to import?

Here is a sketch with the 2nd floor. The "bumps" show the location of the doors. To clarify, my plan was to do both. The area inside the big door would have the walkway and stairs reconfigured to make it deep enough to be the lift area. The area on the left of that is a workshop and is where the...

I'm sure there was no architect involved. It was a dairy barn built in the 1890s. The larger door would have been for bringing in hay, and there is a hay hoist that was for bringing it up to the upper level. The smaller door was where the cows came in to be milked. The stairs and walkway were...

Another garage adventure beginning for me. Moving from PA and a 36x48 pole barn that I had built in 2011, to OH and a 36x72 barn that is going to need some work to rearrange it for my uses-- working on and parking cars for the most part. It's a great old barn that has been insulated and is...

I started fooling with it and the process of laying out the building is really clunky. I have a floor plan to overlay it on that has room sizes. But it seems like there is no way to do some simple functions like make 2 lines collinear, or force 2 walls to be connected at the ends?

Great. So where in that 18 pages is the one discussing software, rather than the actual layout of the garage?

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