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 02-23-2018, 03:18 Post: 111391
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  heating the shop-radiant floor vs. infrared above

If you want to keep it heated all winter then in floor is the way to go. If you just want to heat it when it is in use then radiant heat is the way to go. Our shed is 26x40 with in floor using an electric on demand hot water heater. It is on an off peak elctric meter ($.04/kw) and it costs about $300 to keep it at 50 deg. all winter.

I would stay away from the forced air gas units. JMHO.






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 02-24-2018, 18:33 Post: 111482
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  heating the shop-radiant floor vs. infrared above

Yes you can use a regular gas hat water heater. Everyone that I have talked with says don't use an electric tank hot water heater. I think the problem has to do with recovery time and element longevity. I went with a tankless heater that is designed for in floor heat because we do not have anything else that is gas and didn't want an LP tank sitting beside my shed. I attach a link, hopefully it works.

If you want to heat the shed all winter I think the in floor is the most economical. followed by the radiant heat. The nice thing about radiant heat is that you can shut it off and it does not take long to warm up your building again. Not so with in floor.

If you do go with in floor I would urge you to do the whole building. You can do two seperate zones so that you don't heat the whole bilding but you will still have the capability if you want it latter. It's dang hard to get that tubing into hard concrete!!






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 02-25-2018, 14:11 Post: 111551
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The on demand gas heaters may be less efficient but the electric units are as close to 100% efficient as you can get. There is no heat loss through a vent with electric and any heat that is lost goes into the building.






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