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Here’s one that has me stumped. I am getting ready to start building a 24×32 2 car garage with an apartment above it. I will be setting up a shop in the garage, but I don’t want to heat it all the time. How can I run the water supply to the apartment without having the pipes freeze. So far the only solution that I have come up with is to build a heated mechanical room outside below the stairs and run the water up through the slab at that point. This would also give me a spot to set up a slop sink,washer dryer and the HWH.The apartment will be heated by a monitor heater and a woodstove, so what would be the best way to heat the mechanical room?Also do the 4″waste lines need to be freeze protected, or just the traps? any insight will be appreciated.Thanx Scott
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scott...sounds like yur on the right track...
where do you live.. what temps can you expect outside?
will the mech room be inside the garage space?.. i don't know whether u got the stairs runnin up the outside or the inside?
*Mike, I live over on the Vineyard, not too far from your neck of the woods. I was hoping to keep the stairs outside running up to a 10x24 deck. This building will only be about 100' from my house which is 36x28 so I am trying to keep the new structure a little smaller for the sake of proportion.Hey are you going to go to the JLC show in Providence? I always say I'm going to go, but I haven't made it yet. Scott
*scott.it doesn't take much heat in a well insulated enclosure to protect the plumbing...but it only takes a little draft to defeat it, are all of your heat sources combustion type or wud u think of small electric..can u count on the Vineyard elec supply?a 4 inch waste with the proper pitch shud not be a problem.. but u have to get yur traps into the heated zone..like i said.. i tgot all the bases coveredh, just allow room for insulation on the cold side ... and access for the heat to protect eh plumbing on the warm side...see u at JLC, be there or be square