[AT] More radiant heat.

[Cecil Bearden]

We used some white cross linked poly tubing that was about as brittle as I 
have after seen after it set in the sun for about 2 weeks.....  I really 
worried about it....

Cecil in OK
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From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] More radiant heat.


> 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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> From: <chesnimnus at juno.com>
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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
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:21:26 -0400
>> From: "Andy Glines" <>
>> Subject: [AT] More radiant heat.
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
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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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