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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | Wow!!!! So very cool!!!! |
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| I am in awe!! Your home is beautiful!!! Beyond really!! I feel like it should be in a magazine....cowgirl chic for sure!!! If you ever need any guest let me know :) LOL |
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| fatchance - 2014-05-15 3:52 PM Thanks for answering, I was told we couldn't have concrete over heated floors.....I am making a few phone calls.
you got to watch more dyi i would have had that at my hoouse in 96 but was just getting in. i would soooo love in floor heating
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Location: My Own Little World | All I have to say is that you are living in my dream home!!!! If I go find a barn, will you design it? I don't mind working but don't have your vision :)WOW you did such a great job |
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Location: SE Missouri | roanrider - 2014-05-15 5:32 PM ndiehl - 2014-05-15 6:00 PM May I asked how you insulted the roof? What did you use under the tin? Spray in insulation.
That was my question too. thanks for sharing pictures and answering questions! It looks amazing!! |
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| fatchance - 2014-05-15 6:10 PM roanrider - 2014-05-15 2:26 PM DLV - 2014-05-15 5:10 PM Holy Smokes!!! It is absolutely amazing! I can't believe the transformation. Do you have experience in doing this?? So awesome! Thanks for sharing. wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ummmmmm no.  I have zero qualifications to do this. Then again I did build a kitchen island for our old house. Does that count?!? This was my first "at bat" in designing a house.
I shared your pictures with my husband, his eyes glazed over when he saw the windmill head going up as a fan, I faintly heard him say BRILLIANT!
I started collecting old branding irons and my thought was I would use them in a staircase.....we got older and I have a lot of branding irons. lol Again love your place!
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| rodeorun68 - 2014-05-15 9:55 PM All I have to say is that you are living in my dream home!!!! If I go find a barn, will you design it? I don't mind working but don't have your vision :)WOW you did such a great job
I'll bring my handy dandy computer program with me and we'll get busy!!
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| WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2014-05-15 4:12 PM fatchance - 2014-05-15 2:52 PM Thanks for answering, I was told we couldn't have concrete over heated floors.....I am making a few phone calls.
The heating guys originally quoted us for 3 zones in our house. As we got further into it we only needed 2 zones. We opted to put a couple loops in the garage, just enough to keep it above freezing in the winter so the ice melts off the trucks. |
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Location: MI | roanrider - 2014-05-16 8:07 AM
WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2014-05-15 4:12 PM fatchance - 2014-05-15 2:52 PM Thanks for answering, I was told we couldn't have concrete over heated floors.....I am making a few phone calls.
The heating guys originally quoted us for 3 zones in our house. As we got further into it we only needed 2 zones. We opted to put a couple loops in the garage, just enough to keep it above freezing in the winter so the ice melts off the trucks.
We have in floor heat with polished concrete on the main, and under our basement floor (concrete). Love it! Our main floor is actually a gypcrete material, it's a little lighter/a touch softer than concrete. We had to make sure that our floor trusses would support the gypcrete without too much flex when we designed the house. We have 3 zones in our house - 2 on the main (common room and bedrooms) and one in the basement. We did a passive solar design, so the sun heats the house quite readily in the winter, and then we have a wood boiler to heat the floors when needed with a propane boiler backup. Works awesome, awesomely efficient. |
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Location: Oregon | Are the heated floors expensive in the winter? Are they electric? |
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Location: MI | crapshooter - 2014-05-16 12:52 PM
Are the heated floors expensive in the winter? Are they electric?
(sorry RR, yell at me if I'm responding too much :)
Ours are primarily heated with our outdoor wood boiler. We have a propane boiler back up, but it really doesn't kick on at all.
The heat source that heats the water in the floors is dependent on what your heat source is - if you have electric, natural gas, or propane. How efficient they will be will depend on your house setup/design, insulation, etc.
We love that we don't have forced air vents, because around the farm we would constantly be battling more dust, allergens, etc. with the vents. In our house, I think the heated floors are extremely efficient - we keep our thermostat at 63 degrees, and it feels equivalent to 68-70 that our friends/family keeps their thermostat at. But, we also designed our home for efficiency as well, so I'm not sure how much that has to do with it? |
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Location: Northern Ontario | This is gorgeous! but where is the insulation? doesn't it get cold? |
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Location: In my own world | Well thank you for reading my mind and building me dream home! I'm ready to cut a check and move in!! I'll be there Sunday! It's stunning! |
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| Ridenrun4745 - 2014-05-16 2:01 PM crapshooter - 2014-05-16 12:52 PM
Are the heated floors expensive in the winter? Are they electric?
(sorry RR, yell at me if I'm responding too much : ) Ours are primarily heated with our outdoor wood boiler. We have a propane boiler back up, but it really doesn't kick on at all. The heat source that heats the water in the floors is dependent on what your heat source is - if you have electric, natural gas, or propane. How efficient they will be will depend on your house setup/design, insulation, etc. We love that we don't have forced air vents, because around the farm we would constantly be battling more dust, allergens, etc. with the vents. In our house, I think the heated floors are extremely efficient - we keep our thermostat at 63 degrees, and it feels equivalent to 68-70 that our friends/family keeps their thermostat at. But, we also designed our home for efficiency as well, so I'm not sure how much that has to do with it?
Go for it Ridenrun!
Water runs through the tubes in the floor and that water is heated in a boiler in our mechanical room. That same boiler acts as our hot water heater for showers, sinks, etc. We only use propane.
I think I said it before but one thing we have to get used to is if we change the thermostat it takes a day+ to feel the change because the cement slab either has to warm up or cool down.
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| SuperTrooper - 2014-05-16 2:27 PM This is gorgeous! but where is the insulation? doesn't it get cold?
The original building was a cement block building. On the exterior there's a layer of insulation between the cement blocks and the barn wood siding. On the interior they built 2 x 4 stud walls next to the cement blocks and put a layer of insulated between the cement blocks and the drywall so we have insulation on the interior and exterior on most walls. We live out in the open and the wind rips through here so we needed/wanted extra insulation.
On the north side of our house I wanted to leave the cement blocks exposed so it was just like the day the barn was built. The builders put extra insulation on those north interior walls but it isn't enough. In the winter those brutal north winds made it too cold in there so next week the builders are going to put barn wood on the north side with insulation in between the wood and cement blocks. |
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