What infloor radiant heating would you use in a corewood home design?
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What infloor radiant heating would you use in a corewood home design?
John Yoho
Feb. 6, 2020Last updated: Sept. 9, 2020
I am going to be building my corewood home soon but I wood like to get the floor plan down before I start getting the materials for the house so I can gage out cost. And if i can have all my water and pluming in the floor with my heating system and can place the massive walls on the system to because of the weight of the 18 inch thick wood.
有三种主要类型的地板辐射采暖系统,你需要选择,要么是液体,电线,或空气加热地板。墙壁系统成为一个因素的唯一途径是它的R值和气密性,以及地板将散发的热量。An 18 wall is pretty thick, but Given the mortar and thatwood is about R1 per inchit’s still not an extremely high R value (depending on where you're located). And cord wood walls are not very airtight, so you're going to need some juice in that system of yours if you want a cozy home.Building cord wood wallsis not super common so I'm already full of questions - where are you building? Will you have power or will it be off-grid? What is your main heating fuel going to be - gas, wood, oil, electric?
Whether you choose wires, hydronic tubes or air tubes to heat your floor, you’ll need to size the system to match the heat load. This following page about air-heated floors gives an overview of all three types of radiant floor heating systems –
A comeback for radiant floors heated with air tubes
Installing an electric wire radiant floor is something we have not yet done in any of our homes, the cost and complication has never really been appealing. But we have done many hydronic radiant floors, and most recently an air heated floor, which is fed with heat from solar thermal air heating panels. Here are videos on both of those installations.
Ecohome’s new demo house will be a slab on grade with Solar radiant floor heating powered by air tubes heated with air solar panels
Installing a hydronic radiant floor system in a slab-on-grade floor
The air heated floor may be an option worth exploring, it is provided by a company that designs and manufacturesengineered raft slabs (frost-protected shallow foundation slab on grade). They are available across North America. Where are you located?