Radiant floor/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Radiant floor heat in a bathroom
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

DIY radiant floor installation

...floor这样就不需要加热了。We have been on the fence about this and leaned to both sides at different times, but it seems we have now fallen off the fence, and landed on a warmfloor. Read more here aboutradiantfloors and designing for thermal comfort. Life is short they say, unless of course your ...

Radiant floor tube installation
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

DIY radiant floor tubing installation video

...radiantfloorin the Edelweiss House. We have a 10 zone system, allowingfloortemperatures in each room to be controlled independently. HePex tubing was provided by Uponor, who also use building plans to give customers a zone plan to follow making the install quick and easy, also ensuring the right length of run for e...

Insulated Radiant Floor ICF Foam Forms Heated with Air
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Air-heated radiant floor slab foam forming systems

...radianttubing for a slab-on-gradefloor© Ecohome You can see a Video Guide on How to Install HydronicRadiantHeatedFloorTubing HERE Alternatively, you can heatfloors with electric wires and this is often the most affordable after-market solution for happier feet. Even in new homes with forced-air he...

Solar Radiant Heated Floor Slab Kit
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Solar heated radiant floor with radiant heated hot water for a site with problem soil - expansive clay

...radiantfloors over hydronicradiantfloors , but none greater than the ability to inject solar-heated air into the thermal battery which is the concrete slabfloor. Passive Solar air-heatedradiantfloorslab on grade forming kit © Ecohome Solar air heating panels are a growing trend in green building online ,...

Hydronic heating system
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Hydronic heating

类似于电踢脚板,循环加热系统有利于区域加热,因为你可以保持不同的房间在不同的温度。虽然不同于电阻加热,循环系统最终仍然使用电力来产生热量,所以所有相同的环境现实适用。Heati……

How radiant floors work
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

How to design for thermal comfort in a home

...radiantheat , specificallyfloors. Walls and ceilings can equally be heated and cooled, it is just much less common. Studies seem to show that there isn't a lot of energy savings reported in homes with heatedfloors, despite the fact that, in theory, there should be.Radiantfloor温度©Uponor Wi…

Photovoltaic solar panels
Renewable energy

Solar heating and energy generation

...radiantfloorheat. A system can work to heat your home, as well as pre-heating your domestic hot water. It can easily provide 60% or more of your heating and hot water in the winter and almost all your hot water needs in the summer. With a well-built passive solar home, it’s possible to provide all your heatin...

Crawl Spaces or Slab on Grade Foundations?
Foundations and Basements

Slab on grade or crawlspaces, which is better?

...radiant-heatedfloorprovides greater thermal comfort for occupants, and, compared to forced-air heating, 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 concretefloorwith a non-toxic finish is the most durable and healthy fl...

Heating an off-grid home
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

OFF GRID LIVING BLOG, PART 4: Off-grid heating systems - lessons learned from our off grid home

...Radiantfloorboiler © Craig Anderson We installed a hydronic heating system powered by a propane fired boiler (a Trinity LX150). The system has a heated concretefloorin the lower level with four zones (one for each bedroom and one for the bathroom), and two hydronic baseboard registers upstairs. This syste...

Passive Solar Home design at it's best - Kenogami House - EcoHome
Passive solar home design

Ecohome Kenogami House wins Home of the Year Award

...Radiantfloorheat powered by a high efficiency gas boiler 84% efficient Zehnder Novus 300 ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) While similar in concept, an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) was chosen over an HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilator) , as they are particularly well suited to extreme northern climates. Air is ...

Prefab Passive House & LEED Kit Homes for Sale in Ontario & North Eastern US
Concept and design

Prefab Passive House & LEED ready kit homes - the future of buying a new home?

...flooring materials Back to internal air quality,flooring materials have been chosen for ease of keeping clean and allergen free, while being toxin-free also to avoid off-gassing into the home. The mainfloorwill be polished concrete with healthy, non-toxic concrete sealants The secondfloorwill be Marmoleum,...