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  • From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
  • To: <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Bench heating was heating the greenhouse withwood
  • Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 07:30:40 -0600

Sounds like a great system, but how do you regulate the water temperature?
Also seems like the water would be really hot when it starts out, but as it
circulates it would be much cooler.

Thanks
(West Texas) Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "robert schuler" <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>

> My hot water heated house was specially designed for propagating cuttings
and
> germinating plug trays. Its 20x48 with 700 sq ft of bench space set two
feet
> above the floor covered with 4000 linear feet of 1/4" epdm tubing heated
by a
> 65000 btu residential hot water heater. I can easily heat the trays and
pots
> on the benches to 70 degrees with the radiated heat capable of heating the
> whole house over head at half the cost of a modine type hot air heater.
What
> I like about this setup is its ability to uniformly heat every corner of
the
> house and every plant at exactly the same temperature without cold
spots...
> Bob.
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.







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