[AT] More radiant heat.

[charlie hill]

Colin a bit of time passed while the thread was ongoing.  Andy is putting a 
concrete floor in his shop and was wondering about radiant floor heat.  He 
wanted to know about types of tubing, etc.

Charlie
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Cc: <andyglines at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] More radiant heat.


> Forgive my ignorance, but I got this message in my daily digest of 27 
> October; the message by Andy mentions "all of your input", yet when I 
> check back in the AT digests from the last 5 days, I see nothing about 
> this topic.  What was the original question?  I used to sell and design 
> radiant heat systems, I would like to know what we are talking about.
> -Colin Rush
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:21:26 -0400
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> Thanks for all of your input on radiant heat.  Someone asked me about the
> stove.  The only ID I found on the stove is a brass plate on the front 
> that
> says Omega.  I looked around on the net and couldnt find a picture for 
> you.
> The stove is about 1/4" plate construction about 36"W 18"D &
> 36"H?  The
> stack comes out the top and the top plates are slanted instead of having a
> flat surface.  The stove has a heavy steel door with round air vents the
> thread open and closed (I often see these on inserts)  Underneath is a
> damper & ash pan.  This stove has a built in blower as well.  The
> consrtuction of the blower is pretty neat.  The blower blows air from 
> front
> to back through a duct that actually goes through the firebox.  This 
> system
> must be pretty darn good at taking heat from the fire and putting it in 
> the
> room.  Overall the unit is heavy duty and pretty nice.  It was probably 
> made
> for inside of a house.  Someone else mentioned bubble wrap as insulation. 
> I
> actually saw this product advertised for this purpose while I was 
> searching
> for info on the web.  I was really surprised that one of our members from 
> a
> Scandanavian coutry said that they use up to 250mm of foam under the slab.
> 250mm = 9.84"  (1" = 25.4mm)!  Those guys definitely aren't losing
> heat to
> the ground.  One site that I visited suggested that you insulate around 
> the
> perimiter but leave an area in the center uninsulated.  They said that the
> soil would act as a heat sink in this area storing heat in case of a power
> outage.  A member of SIAM is a retired concrete finisher and I asked for 
> his
> input.  He said that everyone who has it loves it and there aren't many
> problems.  One thing he suggested was a thicker slab as he thought that 
> the
> imbedded tubing may weaken the floor a bit.  I tend to agree whith his
> thinking.  Has anyone heard that the floor should be thicker?  How much?
>
>
>
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