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The height of the side walls is 14' to the bottom of the trusses. They are scissor trusses with 5/12 pitch on the inside. The middle is 19' to the truss. We made the mezzanine to be 8' clearance. The Loft side wall starts at 5' on the sides and is 9' in the middle.

It is the only heat for the building. Seems to work pretty good. The temperature does roller coaster on me a bit. If I set it to 68, it will heat up to 73 and dip down to 65. Its like running a big fly wheel in there. I do like it though. Still working out my temperature control kinks.

I would agree with Central Boiler being a great unit. Looked at a lot of em, and settled with it 4 years ago. Burn 10 - 12 cord a winter. Typically a cord lasts 2 weeks for me. Old 2400 sq ft farm house. Added a 1500 sq ft barn to it and that has not increased burn too much. A lot of work...

I seem to be having trouble posting my pictures. Must be doing something wrong. Will try to get some more here.

The scale of the model is 1' = 1/2". Made for a nice model. The building is 54' long and the model is 27" long. I really enjoyed building the model. Still have not built the ceiling trusses. Need to do that yet.

The building is heated with radiant heat via an outside wood burner. Works great so far. Nothing like walking on a warm floor. We insulated with fiberglass batts. Now I wish we would have used some kind of blow in insulation in the walls. Have some leaks around outlets and such. All in...

Here is our heated pole barn getting started. Been working on this for a year now. Got it insulated and heated now. What a great thing to have going. It is drywalled and working on painting the inside now. Going to use corrugated galvanized steel on the ceiling and side walls. Will have...