In floor heat / Discussions

...heating and cooling. But specifically about your question of how to heat and cool a slab on grade floor, would be a heated floor. here is out page all about different under floor radiant heating systems. Cooling is a different matter, some people put in air-to-air heat pumps cooling, and radiant cooling is something of...

...ing air tubes in floors comes with significant challenges, you can read more here - Radiant floor options - comparing liquid hydronic radiant, electric wires, and air tubes As for distributing heat to the floor - hydronic under floor tubing as well as engineered air heated radiant floors are pumping or blowing super-he...

...ing in a floor. So hydronic, air heated floors or electric mats heating systems are effectively the same in efficiency.  The differences are subtle, but in the case of the air heated floors, the heater is in the floor itself so all the heat is contained in the floor rather than escaping into the mechanical room where t...