ectomorphic
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So I bought a church, with the intention of making it my home.
I'm thinking radient heat is definitely the way to go but would love to bounce some ideas off people before I go beyond the brain storming phase.
Some info about the structure:
it's a church
It's in portland Oregon
It's about 1200 square feet on the main floor with 1200 hundred more feet of daylight basement underneath
there is not a lick of insulation in the building
the peak ceiling height is about 22' on the main floor and 8' continuous in the basement.
My initial thought is put a staple system up between the joists for heating the main floor and thats about as far as I got before running into allot of questions.
Mostly I'm concerned about how to heat the basement, it will be a finished space and the location of the bedrooms and the restrooms. I'm leaning towards using radiators in this space as opposed to putting radient in the floor. I'm 6'4" so im sensitive to any loss in ceiling height in this space. I know that buy having a mixture of radient floor heat and radiators I'll need a boiler, heat exchanger, mixing valve and such, which seems complicated but not daunting. another thought is to put hydronic heating loops in the walls of the basement, allowing me to use one of the fancy hyper efficient hot water heaters as a heat source. The final and least appealing idea is to jack hammer out the basement floor and install an in slab system without losing too much ceiling height.
any thoughts? I'd really appreciate any advice I can get.
A little about myself, if it helps;
I have a degree in mechanical engineering but haven't done serious calculations in ten years as I have been working as an officer in the engine rooms of large tanker and container ships.
This gives me the ability to speak geek and the fabrication skills to tackle most anything. Unfortunately this combination may allow me to get myself way over my head, and spend a bunch of money on equipment that ultimately won't play nice together. My intention is to figure out mostly what kind of system I want, have someone who really knows what they're doing design it, and then install it myself.
I'm thinking radient heat is definitely the way to go but would love to bounce some ideas off people before I go beyond the brain storming phase.
Some info about the structure:
it's a church
It's in portland Oregon
It's about 1200 square feet on the main floor with 1200 hundred more feet of daylight basement underneath
there is not a lick of insulation in the building
the peak ceiling height is about 22' on the main floor and 8' continuous in the basement.
My initial thought is put a staple system up between the joists for heating the main floor and thats about as far as I got before running into allot of questions.
Mostly I'm concerned about how to heat the basement, it will be a finished space and the location of the bedrooms and the restrooms. I'm leaning towards using radiators in this space as opposed to putting radient in the floor. I'm 6'4" so im sensitive to any loss in ceiling height in this space. I know that buy having a mixture of radient floor heat and radiators I'll need a boiler, heat exchanger, mixing valve and such, which seems complicated but not daunting. another thought is to put hydronic heating loops in the walls of the basement, allowing me to use one of the fancy hyper efficient hot water heaters as a heat source. The final and least appealing idea is to jack hammer out the basement floor and install an in slab system without losing too much ceiling height.
any thoughts? I'd really appreciate any advice I can get.
A little about myself, if it helps;
I have a degree in mechanical engineering but haven't done serious calculations in ten years as I have been working as an officer in the engine rooms of large tanker and container ships.
This gives me the ability to speak geek and the fabrication skills to tackle most anything. Unfortunately this combination may allow me to get myself way over my head, and spend a bunch of money on equipment that ultimately won't play nice together. My intention is to figure out mostly what kind of system I want, have someone who really knows what they're doing design it, and then install it myself.