Infloor heating / Discussions

...heating tubes, mesh and rebar of course) but not wood. A wooden structure would sit on top, above grade where it can dry properly.  If you are chemically sensitive then there are any number of materials that may go into a home that might cause you health concerns. We built a LEED Platinum demonstration home (the Edelwe...

...heating water that is circulated through radiant tubing in a concrete floor will not be any more or less efficient that a boiler heating a water coil that blows air through a floor. The fuel source (gas, electricity, propane etc) will affect cost and efficiency, but differences in how you deliver heat isn’t as big a fa...

I live in Nova scotia and doing a new build, I have a 6ft high ICF block constructed frost wall with 4 inches of rigid insulation giving me R20 laid over the vapour barrier, then Ouellet OWC-M series electrical heating cable laid under 4inches of concrete and I will be on time of day rates so the concrete heats up at n...