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Does Radiant Floor heat make sense

Sumboodie

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Like I said, waste oil boilers take a lot of maintenance. Every few hundred hours of run time, perhaps once a month, maybe more often. Every situation is different. Different oils create more ash.

You mention about a 10,000 sqft building. Depending on which manufacturer of PEX tubing you talk to they will say roughly 25 to 30 BTU prt foot of tubing. In my experience, and I have done two car garages and everything up to 35,000 sqft truck shop, you will use very close to one foot of tubing per 1 sqft of floor. so 10,000 sqft x 30 BTU comes out to 300,000 BTU. No sense in putting in any larger boiler than that because that is all the tubing can handle. No if you add a side arm domestic water tank, or some forced air hydronic heaters you might want to add that load to the mix.
Clean 1-2x a season unless you're feeding it some really bad oil.

It's far less time than a wood stove.

My boiler pump runs about 1200hrs a year. The boiler maybe 700-800 hrs.
 
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