Solar air heated floor / Discussions

Can you do an update on Ecohome’s new demo house?

...Solar Air Panels to ensure a continuation of its closed loop system? In the last article about this latest demo house, it was stated that when the heated air generated from the Solar Air Panels is not needed during the summer months to warm the cement floor slab, the heated air is diverted to an air/water heat exchang...

Posted by dean c Oct. 16, 2019 Concept and design 1 response

Can you elevate a slab on grade foundation?

...solar homes,  where you can see how we raised the level of the slab with clean compactible fill, exactly as you would need to do. You could go with a footing and frost wall, but those can sometimes be trickier to insulate properly. We recently built a new demonstration house (which is nearing completion) where we used ...

Posted by Raoul Lions July 27, 2019 Slab on Grade 4 responses

Are there any updates on the progress of the second demonstration house?

...air-heated floors across Canada and the U.S. since the mid-70s, and even longer in Sweden where the company originated, so there is nothing new there; it's the addition of the solar air panels that is new at this point. We expect to see about 60-70 % of the heat load but we won't know for sure until the winter of 2020 ...

Posted by dean c April 30, 2019 Solar thermal collectors 2 responses