We are building a retirement home in central Alabama and are planning a workshop over a basement at the end of the garage. Mainly, we will be doing stained glass, ceramic tile, some wordworking, and other ‘crafty’ projects in the workshop. The main area of the house will have Pex tubing for radiant heating in the slab. There is the possibility of adding floor warming to the workshop when we want to work there on cold and chilly days. We want a wooden floor for at least two reasons: we don’t want the mass of a concrete floor to heat and we don’t want to stand on a a concrete floor. What type of economical but durable wood floor and floor finish would you recommend in this case?
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My first thought was a wood floor with a 1.5"~ lightweight concrete coating and the pex in the concrete.
Maybe not exactly what you wanted - Just an idea.
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I suppose you can do a standard installation of the Pex, but for the actual flooring material, cork is supposed to be a good floor covering.
We installed standard 3" prefinished oak strip wood floors in our house and while shopping for flooring, they had what's called "shop" grade flooring. More knots and such...more character I suppose, but I believe it was nearly $2/sqft. cheaper than their #1 grade. We ended up installing the #2 grade, which is one above shop throughout the house and have been very happy with it.