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My plans have a full “basement” under a two-car garage plus adjacent screened porch. The size of the concrete-slab-floor room will be more or less 31 feet by 23 feet by 8 foot high. It will be a great space for a shop, and believe me, I can use it all. A single gasketed door (gasketed to contain dust)will let me enter the lower walkout level of the house, adjacent. Two walls are concrete, one completely below grade, and one is partly below grade, the ceiling is 8-inch precast plank clear span, with a reinforced concrete topping 2 to 4 inches thick. The garage floor topping above is sealed with a Sonneborn “Flex” coating. How would you heat this space? Electricity is quite cheap where I am building (Lake Placid, NY), and propane is my only other real option. Give me some ideas about installed cost. I will have electric forced air in the house, but do not want to tie in any ducting to that system, because of the dust.
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My plans have a full "basement" under a two-car garage plus adjacent screened porch. The size of the concrete-slab-floor room will be more or less 31 feet by 23 feet by 8 foot high. It will be a great space for a shop, and believe me, I can use it all. A single gasketed door (gasketed to contain dust)will let me enter the lower walkout level of the house, adjacent. Two walls are concrete, one completely below grade, and one is partly below grade, the ceiling is 8-inch precast plank clear span, with a reinforced concrete topping 2 to 4 inches thick. The garage floor topping above is sealed with a Sonneborn "Flex" coating. How would you heat this space? Electricity is quite cheap where I am building (Lake Placid, NY), and propane is my only other real option. Give me some ideas about installed cost. I will have electric forced air in the house, but do not want to tie in any ducting to that system, because of the dust.