Couple questions about in floor heating.

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Can anyone give me a quote for Infloor heat in a basement. I'm getting ready to build a house and would like to put Infloor heat in. Just don't know how much it's going to cost me. The house will be around 1300 sq. ft. Kind of just looking for a close guesstimate. Will be heating it with a cb6048. If you could include the hardware needed to hook it up that would help out greatly.
Thanks in advance.


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There are different ways of doing this so this is an incredibly broad question. I dont know all the specifics of these systems, but i do know enough to know that it pays to plan and plan well. do you want to have forced air on the same boiler? will this boiler heat any outbuildings? A storage tank may be a good idea for you depending on where you live, based on answers to these and other questions. Find a pro, give them the details and go from there. Also, everything is on the internet so best to spend some time searching, you will likely be able to get close enough to an answer after a pretty short time.
 
Thanks for the reply. I will be heating domestic hot water the Infloor basement heat and also using a forced air furnace. And eventually heat a barn. Hence the reason I got such a big OWB. I'll continue doing more research. Thanks again.


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Like cus_d said, extremely broad question. Since this is an arborist/logging forum, I'll assume your are actually doing some building, helpful to add your location.
My own price for installing 1300 sq basement HX floor heat would be about $300 total, mostly for aluminized PEX.

That said, by 'building a home', do you mean you are ACTUALLY going to do the building yourself (cut logs, mill with bandmill, do the carp, elec, plumb work etc YOURSELF) or are you doing the yuppie weenie way and hiring a contractor? Note: I bought a lot of lumber building my own house, but did use 21ea 15 in dia and up DF logs as beams and posts with minimal milling, but did 'weenie out' by buying some finished lumber (G).
99% of folks who say "I'm building a house" means they are hiring folks to do it for them.

If your are actually going to DIY your home, here are some sites you may want to visit. Other wise do what cusd said, and find a pro to separate you from your hard earned $$.
AND, tell the pro to pay attention to insulation FIRST, before even starting the floor heat design process.

http://ecorenovator.org/forum/ This IS the most DIY friendly site I have ever encountered, you may find someone who has done exactly what your are asking. Very helpful folks. Be sure to tell they you are actually building your house.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/Breaktime_3?dbg=5 Very helpful folks, you can get almost ANY question answered (maybe after some intial ribbing). Tell'em Art sent ya <G>. If you ask such a general question such as Can anyone give me a quote for Infloor heat in a basement, you will get razzed.

https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/ You can find all your local codes here

http://forums.finehomebuilding.com/ 10 years ago, this was THE place to go for building advice, has fallen on hard times as most folks have left.

http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/ Not very DIY friendly, but if you know the basics you can get a lot of detailed questions answered.

http://forums.mikeholt.com/forumdisplay.php?f=93&order=desc
Moderators will DELETE DIY questions, they despise DIY, so look at some of the posts first so you know how to come across as a pro before asking questions, mostly ask for code interpretation vs. 'how to' . A little imagination and you can register as a pro after a few dozen cognizant posts.

And do not forget youtube, you probably can find a video of installing your wood furnance.
 
Thanks for the input art. I am located in michigan. I have a contractor hired to "build" the house. He is one of my close friends. I will be helping him with everything including carpentry on my days away from work. The Infloor heat will be done by me. The rest will be done by my contractor. Thanks for all the great info and resources to those forums.


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Rather than lines poured into concrete that would need to be jack hammered out or left off if they failed, you might look into the floor heat that is done with groved sub flooring boards and pex lines run in the groves
 
Dig down deep and super insulate the floor with at least 2" rigid foam. More is even better. If you want this to work well, do the foundation walls as well.

Recommend looking into ICF Basement
 
Thanks for the help guys


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