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Title: Radiant Heat for New Construction
Author: Todd Fratzel, P.E.
Article:
Radian heat has become very popular in today's new home
construction in cold climates. Once again I'm going to share
some of my experience with my own house and others that we have
recently built for customers. Radiant heat offers both energy
savings along with comforts for home owners.
There are many different types of radiant heat systems on the
market today but I will only discuss one of them that I'm quite
familiar with. The new homes that we build with radiant heat
utilize one of three boiler types; high efficiency gas boiler by
Weil McLain, direct vent oil boiler by Buderus, or a high
efficiency gas on demand boiler by Rinnai. Each of these boiler
systems provide a high efficiency option for our customers
depending on their choice of fuel and preferences.
The system is quite simple, the basement slabs have PEX tubing
looped throughout the slab and tied to the reinforcing steel.
Each loop runs back to a manifold and hot water from the boiler
is pumped through the tubing to heat up the slab and "radiate"
throughout the space. The main floor of the house is heated by
running rubber or PEX tubing between the joists and stapled to
the bottom side of the floor sheathing. Each of these loops is
again run to another manifold which allows warm water to be
pumped through the tubes thus warming the floor and causing it
to "radiate" heat to the floor above. In my new house we even
ran tubing to the second floor for each of the bathrooms so we
have nice warm tile to stand on. Radiant works well with
concrete slabs, tile floors and engineered wood floors. You
should check with the manufacturer of any flooring material
prior to installation to make sure it is compatible with radiant
heat.
Radiant heat produces a much more even temperature and an
incredible warm feeling on your feet. By producing the steady
even temperature the system actually will use less energy trying
to overcome the up and down swings of a traditional heating
system. Many statistics suggest that radiant heat can be as much
as 20% cheaper to run than traditional heat systems. On average
my experience has shown that the radiant heat system will cost
approximately 20% to 30% more to purchase and install. However,
the comfort alone is well worth the price and over time it
should easily pay for itself.
Wirsbo has some great information about radiant heat at their
web site. If you're interested in more information about the
details we typically use in our homes see my website at
http://homeconstructionimprovement.blogspot.com
About the author:
Todd Fratzel, P.E. is a building superintendent for a
construction firm in New Hampshire. In addition to supervising
the construction of new homes Todd is a registered professional
engineer in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts and has an
extensive back ground in building structures. For additional
articles like this one see his blog at
http://homeconstructionimprovement.blogspot.com
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