iba heater

[Ric]

For those of you that have heat in your iba...what are you using? Does it work well for you? Would you do different next time?

 

[Jeff_L]

For me, the combination of a door, floor heat, and warm glycol running through the rails is enough to keep any ice buildup from occurring. If I had a door on the other side of the bay it would be even more toasty!

 

[Reds]

I have ultimate radiant tube heaters in both of my IBA's. I am open 24 x 7 all year. Even below zero weather in the winter when they are rowed up all day washing salt off of their vehicles I have no problems. The enter & exit doors are opening/closing about every 7 minutes and no problems. No heat in the IBA slab inside the bay. Outside slab is heated to help keep the ice buildup down. The only thing I would like to change is the time that the exit doors stay open after the vehicle leaves - when a car is waiting both doors are open at that point and the wind blows a lot of my heat away. Still no freezing issues but it would save on propane if I could retain more of the heat.

 

[pgrzes]

We finished installation of a Washworld HV in Jan. I have no heat in bay, Airlift Extremes on both ends of bay. I did put pex at both ends but nothing hooked up yet, I am also going to run a 4" radiant tube thru the bay at the exit side of bay between parked unit and exit door. Didnt need anything last year but just want to have a little heat going.