Solar Radiant Floor Heating
Related Files
We have come to expect that heating a home means putting up with high electricity bills, with the noise of a fan or creaking baseboard heaters, the recirculation of dust and pollen, fluctuations in temperature between on and off settings and the need to rearrange furniture around baseboard heaters, register and radiators. We simply accept that temperatures will differ considerably from room to room, that our heating bill may rival the size of our mortgage payment, that our sinuses and skin will starve for moisture every winter and that our feet will be perpetually cold.
Radiant floor heating is an ancient but elegant concept. Years ago the Greeks and Romans realized that heat rises and put the theory to work for them. They heated the floors of their baths with wood fires. Now, 2000 years later, the principle still applies: the best way of warming a room is to heat the floor rather than to try to make heat travel sideways from a fireplace, radiator, baseboard heater or air register.