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I've been reading all the Mini-split discussions I can. My question is this, My garage is 28x40 and 12' tall walls with open trusses. 4" of styro in walls and approx 2.25" of closed cell on ceiling, 2" under slab, no windows, 2 insulated roll ups, 1 insulated walk-in door. I am heating with and...

Wow Just got the bill a few days ago.... :scared: Holy ****.....with all the B.S. added together, the KWH end up costing .12 each. The bill for approx 14 days of heat, $231.00 So far since the 24th of Dec I have used 2453 KWH At .12 per KWH so far i have used $294.36 worth of elec... OUCH So...

I already have bubble wrap vapor barrier on the roof of my pole barn. It is sandwiched between the steel and the trusses. Can I have this spray foamed with no problem??? Has anyone here had this done?? If it makes any diff the trusses are on 8ft centers with the 2x4's stood on edge and run on...

Working on insulating the upper part of garage/pole barn now. Thought I had made up my mind on using Styrofoam in the ceiling. BUT after crunching numbers etc, it may be more cost effective to have someone spray foam it. I will start getting estimates, but before that I wanted to pose a...

I just finished up installing my system. It is a Seisco SH-11. Purged system ran pump for an hr, turned on heat. The slab is at 40 degrees. Water at entrance to hot side of manifold is at 90 degrees Water coming back to the boiler is at 65 degrees. My question is should the temp coming out of...

My shop is quite multi-purpose.... I do everything from engine rebuilds to clutch jobs to the dirtiest of the dirty, grinding. I'm thinking of trying to keep one area mainly for the dirty stuff. Any ideas on how to keep it more seperate. Will an exhaust hood help much???? BTI

About ready to buy the boiler set up for the shop. 36-40k BTU should work fine. 6" of concrete with 2" of Dow Styrofoam down with plastic under it. 900' of PEX I have read alot of posts and looked alot around the net. It seems there are quite a few companies making the boilers. BUT alot are...

Makin progress!! I am finally ready to start getting supplies for the hydronics in my garage. I was all set to go with pexsupply to get my supplies. I was admittedly buying the higher priced brand of oxygen barrier pex. Then someone suggested pexsuperstore. I can get the same size with oxygen...

Just HAD to join everytime I searched hydronic on the net this site managed to popup LOL. I'm not much help for anyone on the building side of it. I service and sell compact diesel tractors, maybe I can lend some info that way. Glad to have found the site! BTI

First off I'd like to say you have a great forum here. I've read alot before joining and more after LOL Sorry this post is so long. I have some pics to show my problem. They are from when it was built. It now has fill in it but the fill doesn't touch any outside walls. We had the garage built 2...