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Originally posted by ctenophore
Nice work on the improvements. Did you consider geothermal for the radiant floor heat source? If so, why did you opt for gas?
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I did consider it. I'm still considering it actually. We went with gas out of convenience. We had a gas line already from the old furnace system, and the plumbing professionals in our area had lots of experience installing radiant floor systems.
I really like the idea of using a geothermal heat pump but I just haven't seen personally the best way to implement it. I think it would be a great system to run in conjunction with what I have now in case there is a failure of some kind again. Having a separate redundant system would be nice.
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Originally posted by ctenophore
Did/do you use any shade cloth? If so, did you use aluminet and find it to help with temperature control from infrared reflection at night?
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We use white shade cloths. Aluminet sounds very interesting. Anything to help keep the greenhouse warm in the winter is a welcome addition. It seems to be a fairly inexpensive tweak too relatively speaking.
I read your greenhouse thread. You've done a great job with it. I am surprised you are not having trouble with the light intensity you are allowing in. 1200 is a ton. I have some corals that react poorly to much less light than that which makes me wonder if my issues are water chemistry-related rather than light related.