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I helped build a work area in the rear of my father-in-law's pole barn I put up 2 inch think ridged pink insulation board with dry wall over the top
12x 30 heated it with a small wood burner
 
I have a 30 X 48 with 12' walls. The radiant floor heat cost me about $2500 including piping, tankless HWH, and 2" of high-density blue foam under the concrete. I used radiant barrier insulation for the ceiling and R11 batt in the walls. There are so many ways to go when doing a building. From how you do your site lay-out to construction style to the way you insulate and heat. It's enough to drive you nuts.
I did ALL of it myself. I had 2 weekends with a "barn party" of guys from work to do the majority of the framing and hanging sheet metal. Other than that, pretty much all me. I'm the only labor I can afford.

Found some pix:
This shows the ceiling insulation and some of the walls. I started with a "Miracle Steel" building which has the pre-fabbed trusses you can see. I wanted something on the ceiling that would be reflective and provide some insulation without costing a fortune. The stuff you see is what I found that fit the requirements.
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This is just looking from the corner back the other way. The door is a 10X10 insulated roll-up. The loft is built with 3/4 T&G over 2x8's and gives me about 7'4" clear height underneath.
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This is the heating system just after I hung everything on the board and stood it in position. Nothing is hooked up at this point. For scale, the board is 4' x 4'. The white tubes coming out of the floor are the supply and return in the floor.
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PM me for more details.
 
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OldbutNew said:
I have a 30 X 48 with 12' walls. The radiant floor heat cost me about $2500 including piping, tankless HWH, and 2" of high-density blue foam under the concrete. I used radiant barrier insulation for the ceiling and R11 batt in the walls. There are so many ways to go when doing a building. From how you do your site lay-out to construction style to the way you insulate and heat. It's enough to drive you nuts.
I did ALL of it myself. I had 2 weekends with a "barn party" of guys from work to do the majority of the framing and hanging sheet metal. Other than that, pretty much all me. I'm the only labor I can afford.

Found some pix:
This shows the ceiling insulation and some of the walls. I started with a "Miracle Steel" building which has the pre-fabbed trusses you can see. I wanted something on the ceiling that would be reflective and provide some insulation without costing a fortune. The stuff you see is what I found that fit the requirements.
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This is just looking from the corner back the other way. The door is a 10X10 insulated roll-up. The loft is built with 3/4 T&G over 2x8's and gives me about 7'4" clear height underneath.
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This is the heating system just after I hung everything on the board and stood it in position. Nothing is hooked up at this point. For scale, the board is 4' x 4'. The white tubes coming out of the floor are the supply and return in the floor.
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PM me for more details.
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cool system are you filling it with glycol? or plain water?
 
Jeff, I got it from "Miracle Truss". They have since gone out of business.
Propylene glycol mix. Closed loop system.

The insulation has been finished with R11 in the end walls and more OSB panels are on the walls since these pix were taken.
I keep the thermostat at 55 out there. It frigging rocks.
 
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If you can swing it, radiant floor heat is the shit. My dad's is 40'x 60' and it's a dream when you need to lay on your back and work in the middle of winter. Just ensure you know exactly where your tubes are so you're not drilling into them when you install a hoist, etc.
Additionally, boilers aren't cheap. My dad's took a crap after 8 years and it was $5000+ to replace it.

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88RedLX said:
If you can swing it, radiant floor heat is the shit. My dad's is 40'x 60' and it's a dream when you need to lay on your back and work in the middle of winter. Just ensure you know exactly where your tubes are so you're not drilling into them when you install a hoist, etc.
Additionally, boilers aren't cheap. My dad's took a crap after 8 years and it was $5000+ to replace it.

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I did a layout of where the hoist would be and ran the tubes around it. 40 x 60 with floor heat is biiiig bucks. My system is small enough to be fed with a tankless HWH instead of a commercial boiler. And yes, the radiant floor is absolutely worth it. For any building <2000 square feet, you can do it on a closed loop with a tankless HWH. It's not just the cost of the heating system, it's the insulation. I balanced the size of the barn with the cost of heating it, or mine would be that big.

Jeff. You know where I live. Scott, come over and take your own dang pictures! I'll let you know when Jeff shows up with that beer.
 
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