I’d like to have radiant in our shop someday, father would really like to have it as the air handlers mess with his ears, he has tinnitus.
I’d like to have it but the current shop is both too small and too low to get either combine in, also too short to do anything but park the hopper bottom in.
I’d prefer to actually build a new shop thats actually large enough to handle everything we want to do instead spending all the time unloading all the shelves, moving those out, tearing all the old concrete out, digging down (most likely by hand) to properly install the perimeter insulation, etc. Father just wants to cut a few slabs out and place the tubing in those and skip the insulation around the perimeter. Just won’t believe me when I tell em if your not gonna do a radiant slab right it both not worth doing at all and may take more to heat than it does now.
With our current shop radiant would be nice, but air handlers actually work better as it may be weeks at a time were all we do is walk int the shop to grab a wrench or something else, if were not using it I keep it at 45, if I have a few big projects coming up then I keep it at 65 during the day and 50 at night, maybe even 70 if we are painting. Not viable to change temps all the time with radiant, if I was going to keep it the same temp all the time, much more insulation would be required.