Looking at AC_Hacker's post about hydronic floors makes me wonder....
Could a DIYer just lay down sheets of copper, put 1/2" copper tubing on it,
then allow the tile guys to come in and put down tile?
Not sure, perhaps the tubing could be soldered to the copper plate.
What I don't know is if the tile guys would work without sleepers
to bring the subfloor up to the top of the tubing.
Maybe that's a very naive question.
Likewise the thought, could you do the opposite?
Cut grooves in the subfloor and then prepare copper sheets
with copper tubes soldered to them, and invert them into the grooves?
Does someone make products that do this?
Warmboard looks (from the brief post) like a system including
a subfloor. (But the subfloor for the kitchen is in.... :-)
I'm going to show AC_Hacker's post to the builder
so he understands what I am trying to do.
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