How to heat huge concrete slab

Andrei Calciu

I am about to build a new chicken house (400 feet long by 42 feet wide, 11 feet high in the center and 7.5 feet high at the edges).

The entire house will sit on a huge (400x42) concrete pad that will be about 4 inches thick.

I want to use hydronics to heat it in the following way:

1.- use solar collectors to preheat as much as I can the fluid (the panels will probably run on glycol that will be run through a heat exchanger to heat the water that will run in the slab)

2.- have some kind of a fuel oil-based supplemental heater (solar panels will not cut it year round)

3.- the entire house will be ventilated so all the individual loop zones will have to run pretty much on just a handful of thermostats.

Any suggestions on how to go about this?

Earthfire

chicken coop

there are a few ways to do this. thermal storage, buffertanks, slab sensors air, temp sensors, If your in Pa. email us and well gladly try and help you out. If not in Pa. try the find a contractor link . These guys are good and know how to get the answers they need to do it right