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concrete floor in barn
First off I'm not an engineer, so this is just something I did about 25 yrs ago and it seems to have worked out fine so far. I added section on an existing building that I wanted to heat without any open flame. It's a stud frame structure with steel siding 6 in. roll insulation and sheetrock. the ceiling has about a foot of blown in insulation. I had investigated different types of non flame heat, what looked best were radiant cove heaters placed on the wall about a foot down from the ceiling. The manufacturer of the heaters recommended that the concreet floor be on top of 3 inch foam board insulation and this would give the concreet floor itself the ability to act as heat sink storing heat from the radiant heaters. This system has worked out real well, in fact I installed three heater units and found that no more than two were ever needed so I took one down and used it in another installation. Far as floor strength, it was just standard strength mix (6 in. thick) with re-bar. It's had some mighty heavy machines on it for all those years and I don't see any signs of stress cracking so far, plus it's been an amazingly economical building to heat. I do realize that in theory my floor should have bent, broken and had to have been replaced by now because of the lack of firm support by the foam, but in the real world it's just as good today as 25 yrs. ago. Just my experience. Frank.
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concrete floor in barn
Grinder; Yes this building is kept heated 24/7 at about 55 degrees. It has allways been used as an assembly room for furniture. 90% of our glue work is done with yellow glue and most of the rest with hide glue, both seem to set up fine but just somewhat slower than in the summer. We seem to allways be going from the heated to the unheated parts of the shop, so around 55 seems to be a comfortable temp for a light jacket and the same jacket being adequate for short periods on the cold side. We also use cove heaters in our finish room built basicly the same as the assembly room only it has a insulated wood floor, only we go a couple steps farther with it. it is also humidity controlled and heated to about 75 degrees but only when doing actual finish work. Between jobs we back the heat off to just above freezing, it also has a filtered air exchange system that changes the total volume of the air in the building about two and a half times a minute. This may sound like some flashy high tech operation, but 90 percent of these heat and air exchange systems are home made, but they've worked fine for years. As for the floor, I seem to remember that we put about twice as much re-bar in as was called for, so maybe that's why it held up. Thanks for your intrest. Frank.
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