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Heating your home from the ground up
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Types of Radiant Floor Heating for Your
home
There are three types of radiant floor heat: radiant air floors (air is
the heat carrying medium); electric radiant floors; and hot water
radiant floors. All three types can be further subdivided by the type of
installation: those that make use of the large thermal mass of a
concrete slab floor or lightweight concrete over a wooden subfloor and
those in which the installer "sandwiches" the radiant floor tubing
between two layers of plywood or attaches the tubing under the finished
or subfloor . Read more about
radiant heat.
Because air cannot hold large amounts of heat, radiant air floors are
not cost-effective in residential applications, and are seldom
installed.
Electric radiant floors are usually only cost-effective if your electric
utility company offers time-of-use rates. Time-of-use rates allow you to
"charge" the concrete floor with heat during off-peak hours
(approximately 9 p.m. to 6 am). If the floor's thermal mass is large
enough, the heat stored in it will keep the house comfortable for eight
to ten hours, without any further electrical input. This saves a
considerable number of energy dollars compared to heating at peak
electric rates during the day.
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