11-29-11, 06:54 PM | #1 |
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radiant wall ideas.
So one of my projects hopefully will be a solar water heater. hopefully I'll have in my basement a huge tank of hot water. other than hot water usage I would like to find a good use for that heat. My house has a very open floor plan and I think it would be possible to remove a wall and rebuild it as a thermal mass, out of concrete blocks. Does anyone think a centrally located radiant thermal mass would heat the open areas of the house.
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So it's really not possible to intelligently answer your question, unless someone takes the coward's way out and says: "Yes, it is possible, if you get your water hot enough." I think your best bet would be to get a hydronics design program like Watts Radiant, RadiantWorksPro, which was free last time I looked. You could fool the program a bit and tell it that the thermal "wall" is actually the floor, and just add the real floor to the list of walls. RadiantWorks will figure the rest out for you. Good luck with your project, there is very much to learn before you build that wall. Regards, -AC_Hacker
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11-30-11, 07:09 PM | #3 |
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wow. I'll have to look into that program. That reply was a quite a bit more complicated than I thought this would be.
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Having said that the outer rooms would be damn cold if that was my only way of moving the heat. I suck the heated air from near the insert into the cold air return of the furnace and pump it around the house using the circulating fan. I also set up a fan on a stand and use it to push air up the stairs sometimes. Those combined keep the outer rooms warm enough but still cool. |
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