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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