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Originally Posted by Oak
Radiant floor heat in Georgia is pretty much non existent. It doesn't get cold enough to justify it. On one end of this building will be an 800sf apartment for my MIL. I hate carpet so it will probably have a lot of tile or similar for flooring and I know that she will be cold walking on an unheated floor. Her place will have a separate heat pump system for heat and a/c.
My shop area will also have a heat pump system for its primary heat & a/c also.
I'm wanting to install the radiant because I think it's a good way to heat and would be cool to have. The cost isn't much for the oxygen barrier Pex either at $0.21/ft. I figured I would have a total of less than $700 in Pex pipe in the slab. I'm a commercial HVAC contractor so nothing will get subbed out. I will do it all myself at my own pace as time allows. If I had to pay out of pocket to have this done there would be no way I would ever think about it.
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Well, makes sense I guess. I THINK I read where guys were circulating water in these types of systems that was trying to get the benefit of some geothermal heating/cooling--I believe there were large and deep pipe "fields" out in the yard, would that be part of your plan as well? I have a high crawl space under my house (built into a hill, no flat land here) and it is amazing how cool it is under the house during the summer. Oh if there were just a way to efficiently capture it for cooling--no trees for shade.
A shop with AC, I'm jealous. We are soaked with sweat this morning with the temps in the low 80's because of the humidity. Setting up for a stormy afternoon.