My goal was to have the entire home on a hydronic radiant system by the 2019/2020 heating season.
Now, keep in mind, nobody was using domestic hot water and the electric baseboard was just being used to keep the house from freezing. We bought the house in January of 2019, though we didn’t move in until March. The house didn’t have natural gas either, but a gas line was available from the street. They sealed the manifolds and never got around to installing a boiler. Whoever built the house had laid tubing before the slabs were poured and connected the loops to stainless steel manifolds. But the realtor quickly showed me two radiant manifolds a five-port manifold in the basement and a three-port manifold in the garage. When we first walked into the nine-year-old house, I was a bit disappointed to see the electric baseboard throughout the home. So we downsized, finding a three-bedroom rancher not far away. My wife and I recently became empty nesters, and our five-bedroom rancher and large property quickly seemed way too big. It wasn’t long ago that I had an opportunity to discover the efficiency and comfort level of a staple-up radiation system. Does that mean, however, that staple-up (or any method of attaching radiant tubing to the underside of a subfloor) doesn’t work? Are staple-up systems unresponsive, uncomfortable or inefficient? After all, installing tubing on the underside of a floor provides the greatest opportunity for retrofit application, and likely presents the lowest cost in-floor solution. Sure, thermal mass provided by a slab is great, and concrete is a better conductor of heat than wood. Some purist installers think that the only way to make radiant work is to pour a slab over the tubing, whether that be a concrete slab on grade or a lightweight Gyp-Crete slab over plywood subfloor. There is some debate that different methods of installing in-floor radiant systems provide varying levels of responsiveness, comfort and efficiency. We are the Radiant Heating Specialists.By Rocky DiTommasso, Northeastern Supply We have compiled one of the most extensive informative sites about Radiant Heating on the web. Use our search function to find what you are looking for.
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