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Old 01-26-11, 01:29 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by AC_Hacker View Post

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.
I'm curious do they connect the boiler directly to the radiant or do they use a storage tank that is heated by the boiler then circulated out. It just seems funny to heat water to 180 or so with a boiler and then pump it into pipes when you really want 90 or so degrees.
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