Hi Chris,

Thanks for your response. We have discussed these before and from a heating standpoint, I have been very happy with it. I was just hoping to figure out how to have it heat with the least amount of energy necessary.

The basement is what I would call semi-finished. About one third of it has been made into a room with panneling on the walls and industrial grade carpet. The walls to this room are insulated and two of them are interior walls. The rest of the basement is unfinished with concrete floors and no insulation in the walls. There is no heat in any of the basement (finsihed or unfinished). I will try some of your suggestions to get me through the winter. In reality though, this is a temporary set up as this summer I will be building a herp room in my garage. Hopefully we can talk more about that as the time comes as I believe you have done a similar project.

Just as food for thought, the garage is detached from the house and is 28' wide by 32' deep. It is not insulated but it does have water and electricity (outlets every 3 - 4 feet all the way around, a utility sink and a toilet). My plan is to take the back of the garage and make a herp room that is approximately 8' x 16' and a rodent room that is approx 8' x 6'. Unfortunately, there are windows in the garage and to bring the rooms farther out than 8' would either put me right in the middle of the windows or make parking a car in the garage difficult. Even though this project is a little ways off, I am open to suggestions since I figure the planning phase is the time to make adjustments.

Thanks again for all of your help. I'll keep you posted as to the summer project.

Rob

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