Infloor heat/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...heated floor provides greater thermal comfort for occupants, and, compared to forced-airheating, it does not blow dust around your home. So it offers an advantage for cleaner indoor-air quality than a crawl space foundation. A polished concrete floor with a non-toxic finish is the most durable and healthy flooring m...

...heatsources: An air-heated radiant floor system from Legalett with an estimated 60-70% of the totalheatload being provided by solar airheating panels , which also act to pre-heatdomestic hot water in the summer. Aheatpump that operates down to -25 °C that can triple theheatgenerated per kWh of electricit...

...heatis a comfortableheat, but with sufficient subfloor insulation you can mitigate the discomfort of cold associated with concrete floors by keeping them consistent with room temperature. Note: If you've opted for a waterheated radiant floorheating system, the plumbing contractor will install a network of cross-l...

...heaters. As soon as a water leak occurs, the detector relays the signal to the control unit, and in less than one second, the control unit triggers the closing of an electronic valve installed on the water source. An intelligent system: • Notification of an incident and the successful closing of the valve is sent...

...Heating the liquid in a hydronic system can be achieved in many ways: Tankless (on demand) waterheaters Combination hot water tank and boiler Combination solar waterheater and boiler Geothermalheatpumps Hydronic radiators and baseboardheaters will transferheatin the same way as electric resistant h...

...heatthroughout the house. You can find out more about Ecohome's LEED V4 Platinum Edelweiss House , Radiant floors , slab on grade construction step by step , Raft slabs for building on soft soils , and anything else about sustainable green home construction in Ecohome's green building guide pages.

...heater that offers you only a 1 to 1 ratio. The Voltex waterheater from AO Smith is an air-to-waterheatpump which extractsheatfrom the air to generate hot water, so in the winter that 3 to 1heating ratio of the firstheatpump is transferred to the waterheater. And the more 'free'heatyou have in winter (sola...

...heatpump and ourheatpump waterheater work together in boosting the efficiency, and the ceiling fan is a big part of making that happen. This video explains the relationship between those systems. Thanks to our sponsor Aeratron for providing super efficient and quiet ceiling fans that fit in nicely with the look of ...

...heat使用恒定的地球内部温度来平衡北美和加拿大急剧变化的地表温度。With the use ofheatpumps, geothermalheating and cooling systems extractheatenergy and transfer it into buildings, saving approximately 50 to 60% onheating and co...

...heaters. This type of waterheating system can be advantageous in some climates, provided they use gas-fired as opposed to electricalheating. Theseheaters may also be known as ' inline waterheaters', 'continuous flowheaters', 'instantaneous waters' or 'flashheaters'. The drawback with traditional domestic hot ...

...heatpump toheatthe air of the house. This gives us air that isheated on average three times more efficiently (and three times cheaper) than had we relied on electric resistanceheatin the form of baseboardheaters or our radiant floor boiler. We also have an air-to-water hybrid electricheatpump hot waterheate...