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I have an 1,800 sq ft garage. It is insulated (R-19 walls, R-50 ceiling R-13 garage doors) and has a heated floor. I'm considering adding a mini-split for more summer comfort but I'm not sure I can get on that is big enough. The garage is "L" shaped, but I really only care about cooling the...

We just built a house. We had pex put in the basement and garage floor with the manifolds terminating in the mechanical room. I'm now working on building the plumbing (pumps, valves, boiler, etc) to get the system to work. As you can see the manifold for the garage pex is mounted high on the...

I'm currently building a house. I have a 14x30 basement storage area that is under the back part of my garage. The garage slab will have hydronic heat, 2" foam board under the slab, vapor barrier under the foam, then precast concrete. The storage area ceiling is the bottom of the precast...

I'm going to put 3 zones of hydronic radiant heat in my new home. The basement (1906 sq ft) will be one zone, this will be kept at 70-ish degrees all winter. The garage (1780 sq ft) will be another zone. This will likely be kept around 50-55 degrees but will be turned up for days that I plan to...

I'm building a house with a 1780 sq ft garage. Based on my calculations, I would need a 40K BTU A/C unit. Because of the layout of my garage (L-shaped) I'd like to have multiple air handler units but all on one zone. I can find units with multiple air handlers but all with their own zones. Does...

I'm building a new home in central Iowa. The house will have a 1780 sq ft garage attached. I'm not going to put radiant heat in the floor, but I will insulate the garage with fiberglass batts in the 2x6 walls (about R19) and blown in cellulose (R40) in the attic. I plan to use an overhead...

I'm getting ready to build a house and plan to put radiant heat in the floors. On my basement level I will have two zones, the main zone inside the home (zone 1) and a 2nd zone which is a "shop/storage" area built under part of my garage using pre-cast (zone 2). I want to use a single...

I'm planning a new house build, I plan to have an L-shaped garage with one section 24x22 and the other section 26x40. I'll have a tuck-under garage (garage under a garage) under the 26x40 section. I'd like to at least put pex in the floor so I have the option of heating the upper garage in the...

I'm looking at putting radiant heat in my new shop. As I look for a good place to put the water heater it seems to make the most sense to get it off the ground and put it in a loft. Would there be any issues with mounting the water heater for the in-floor heat in a loft about 10 feet above the...

What are your guy's thoughts on something like this for an in-line oiler? Would it work very well? I would think it would only work if you had a short hose after the oiler. Putting it before a 100 foot reel would probably be pointless, right...

Hey guys, you got a newbie on your hands! I'm finally at a point in my life that I can buy a chunk of land and can put up a shop. My dad has a 4,000 square foot shop with 1,000 heated, it has come in so handy that I realized I need my own (my dad's is 120 miles away). I'm trying to determine...