The hunting cabin

[Foggy47]

The floor heat has quite a bit of lag time to get up to temp. It wouldn't be great to keep at 50, then show up and turn it to 70 and think it's going to get there quickly.

Right....but to keep it at 50....and have another heat source to bring the ambient up would be pretty sweet. I had in-floor heart in another home....and we learned to leave it set fairly low....and never mess with it. We put a plastic box over our thermostat....and never changed it.. We used a secondary heat source for the rest. Our basement floor never felt cold. I would consider using the in floor heat to keep it warm year around....then using a mini split for HVAC from May though November deer camp. Thereby keeping everything from freezing over the winter. Maybe a gas fireplace or alternate source for ambiance? Dunno. ...but a minimum of 50 degrees floor temp would sure be nice.

 

[keets]

Are you talking all the way around the building, or as a porch? There is a 10’ porch with overhang facing the woods.

didn't notice the porch on the end, I'm talking on the eaves, big overhangs