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Old 01-24-11, 08:10 PM   #43
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...will have a thermal mass hydronic floor for the first floor and basement (larger w/sand bed) as it's main heat storage...
Hello Drake,

I'm getting very close to plunging into my first radiant floor project.

I'm trying to scheme up a relatively lightweight 'sandwich' which will be high-efficiency. From all I have read, lightweight and high-efficiency are mutually exclusive, where radiant floors are concerned.

Have you thought about how you will do your floors?

BTW, I stayed at a house with nice warm slab floors this past weekend, and it was very nice indeed. I now know that it is well worth the effort to go radiant. They used a Rinnai wall mount boiler (propane).


I was amazed at how small the heating plant was for such a large house.

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-AC_Hacker
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