just like the title says what are you guys using or doing for your in floor heat in your garages, I was told a water heater would work but I'm not sure if its up to code, and then I hear a boiler is the way to go, please help I'm building a 28' by 18' one and a half garage as soon as the snow buggers off

 

How tall is the ceiling going to be? I prefer radiant tube heat to the in-floor tubes..

What type of structure? Have you looked into SIPS them babies fly together..

 

Go with a boiler over a rigged up water heater. The key is to insulate properly with floor heat.

Floor heat cost's a lot less to run over radiant tube heat. This is based off my shop and a friend's shop both equal size.

Radiant tube is nice if you want to quickly warm up your building.

 

There was a new product out a couple years back that was a sort of plastic mesh in 4" X4" squares. It came in a roll and was cheaper to heat electrically than any other product. Once warm it didn't take much power to keep warm. It could be punctured anywhere and wasn't affected, as long as it didn't get cut clear thru.

I'll try to get the name of it from my heating guy.

Apparently its used in the auto industry for seat heaters and such becasue it is pliable and doesn't have any wires in it.

 

I guess you could get a diesel or nat-gas genset and use the jacket water for in-floor heat and electricity for radiant.

I live down here in the coastal "tropics" compared to you guys but do you ever have problems with the concrete floor sweating badly?
We sure do when the weather changes and our humidity comes back so quickly following a Norther(every 3-5 days).
In-floor heat would DEFINITELY stop that.

 

Its called Step Warmfloor and its kinda spendy @ $11/sq.ft.

I'd keep looking.

 

get one of these it portable and heats fast http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...5536_200395536