48x39x14 shop build

[fordmantpw]

We have 5 different zones in our house and I love it! It's not radiant floor heat, so not apples to apples, but having different zones is amazing. I work from home, and my office is in the basement. I only have to heat/cool that room of the basement and it makes things much more comfortable. In the summer, the A/C would never run in the basement if it wasn't zoned separately due to the cooler temps in the rest of the basement. But with a couple monitors, a PC, and 4 windows on the west side of the house, it would be pretty warm in there. It stays nice and cool being zoned seperately. In the winter, I only heat that room of the basement since I'm the only one home during the day.

Our zones are:
1) Main living/kitchen area plus 2 kids' bedrooms/bath
2) Master bed/bath
3) Entire basement minus office - this is almost never on
4) Sun room - another must for a separate zone to keep it from being too hot or cool due to having so many windows
5) Basement office

It's great being able to kick our bedroom down a few degrees during the summer for better sleeping without needing to cool the rest of the house to 72 degrees.

 

[ovrszd]

We have 5 different zones in our house and I love it! It's not radiant floor heat, so not apples to apples, but having different zones is amazing. I work from home, and my office is in the basement. I only have to heat/cool that room of the basement and it makes things much more comfortable. In the summer, the A/C would never run in the basement if it wasn't zoned separately due to the cooler temps in the rest of the basement. But with a couple monitors, a PC, and 4 windows on the west side of the house, it would be pretty warm in there. It stays nice and cool being zoned seperately. In the winter, I only heat that room of the basement since I'm the only one home during the day.

Our zones are:
1) Main living/kitchen area plus 2 kids' bedrooms/bath
2) Master bed/bath
3) Entire basement minus office - this is almost never on
4) Sun room - another must for a separate zone to keep it from being too hot or cool due to having so many windows
5) Basement office

It's great being able to kick our bedroom down a few degrees during the summer for better sleeping without needing to cool the rest of the house to 72 degrees.

What type of heat do you have?

The house I've lived in for 40 years is heated with elecgric baseboard. Thermostat in every room. I really like having that choice.

 

[Jcoon]

Richard the problem with a wall mounted thermostat is opening a door or something, and the cold air cooling the thermostat making the heat come on for no reason..

 

[ovrszd]

Richard the problem with a wall mounted thermostat is opening a door or something, and the cold air cooling the thermostat making the heat come on for no reason..

I totally agree!!!

The flip side would be the adjustment to figuring out concrete temp to get the desired room temp. This would change with the seasons.

 

[Jcoon]

I don’t think it would be that hard..

 

[ovrszd]

I don’t think it would be that hard..

I agree.

Was hoping someone using that method would chime in.

To get more informational discussion I probly should have started a separate thread about this.

 

[prof fate]

very nice shop.

I see one big problem thought - you built it on the wrong property...it should be in my yard! LOL

 

[Jcoon]

Nah I think it pertains to this thread.

How would you change it now anyways?

 

[prof fate]

How well does floor heat work?

I've worked in shops with forced air of all kinds, not bad.
Worked with radiant heat - I hate it. I understand why,but don't like it. Our indoor gun range has it because the exhaust fans would make forced air impractical, but you end up on fire at the head/neck area and everything else is still cold.

I would think heating a slab of concrete would be pricey - impractical to turn it on when needed so you'd leave it on all the time - and that would be pricey. Does it heat the area above the floor at all? Tools, tables, etc?

 

[JHurt]

I totally agree!!!

The flip side would be the adjustment to figuring out concrete temp to get the desired room temp. This would change with the seasons.

I know Ed put a piece of conduit in my concrete so that he could add a probe instead of a thermostat, but when I discussed it with him he didn’t really clarify which one he was going to end up with. Might be neat to have it in the concrete on mine just so we could compare notes.