how effective is floor heating? will the entire room warm up? or just my feet? Thanks Read More →
gonna get new engineered hardwood floors over concrete floor, thinking of heat between. i only have a electric heat baseboards in my condo, would i save money or benefit if i also get the radiant heat??? Read More →
We live in Southern Ontario which can have some moderately (yes, it’s all relative) cold winters, but not as cold the prairies. Read More →
A double brick walled Church in the Northeast is redoing a basement bathroom. The old concrete was 6" thick. The 7′ x 7′ (9′ high) room has unheated spaces on 5 of 6 sides (under an exterior porch.) Heating was formerly a steam radiator on the ceiling. Radiant floor heating is desirable with a view to install a thermal solar collector. Current information suggests that the insulated concrete slab should be no more than 4" thick with pex tubing 2" below the surface. As the concrete will be acting as a thermal storage mass as well as a radiant surface wouldn’t a thicker slab be desirable? How would a thicker slab also be made to be responsive to the...
I live in AZ in an adobe house built in the late ’30s. There is no foundation, just a concrete slab directly on the Arizona dirt. I know heat rises, but it radiates through solid contact quite effectively, and my concern is the earth beneath my slab will absorb some of that heat. What would you recommend as the most cost-effective, sensible solution to heating my 1200sqft house? The roof is not up to modern codes and I hate the idea of sticking a heavy heat pump up there. It can get quite cold at night in Tucson (sometimes mid 20s) but it is RARE that the daytime high is less than 50-something and usually even warmer. Is radiant floor heat even an option on an existing slab? I plan to tile...
We just installed a radiant floor heating system and our plumber tells us that a regular thermostat is in fact more efficient than a programmable one, because it doesn’t have to use a lot of energy to get the water hot again. We installed a high efficient munchkin boiler. Thoughts? Read More →
I am doing a paper on the three systems of radiant floor heating and I cannot find anything about how to install this system and no one even wants to address the possiblility because it is such a poor system Read More →