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"Radiant floor heating"

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

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

Hydronic heating systems, the complete guide to radiant heat

...heating. Understanding hydronic radiant heating People often confuse the terms radiant heating and hydronic heating, but they are not synonymous. While hydronic heating involves water as the heat-transfer medium, radiant heating refers to heating surfaces to the point that they emit infrared radiation, which then warms...

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Waterproof floor screeding with underfloor hydronic heating
Basements improvements

The ultimate guide to basement under floor heating and waterproof floor screeding

...floor heating for basements? Underfloor heating is a great practical solution for basements. Old-school radiators can hog space, whereas underfloor heating presents a streamlined, hidden design that distributes heat evenly spreads throughout the space. Hydronic underfloor heating systems are especially good for basemen...

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

Air-heated radiant floor slab foam forming systems

...heating, electrically-heated mats are sometimes installed below the tiles in bathroom floors for added comfort. What you don’t see a lot of, are floors heated with air. Electric wire radiant floor heating © Ecohome How to make air-heated floors work: Since the first forced-air heating systems were introd...

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How radiant floors work
Architecture and plan design

How to design for thermal comfort in a home

...heating costs. There is also the matter of conductivity - a wood floor and a concrete floor at the same temperature would feel very different since concrete conducts heat much better, making it seem either warmer or colder than a wood floor of the same temperature. It is important to note that including in-floor heat i...

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

DIY radiant floor tubing installation video

...floor heating systems  Build your own DIY solar air heater for free heat Heat pump water heaters save energy and money All about underfloor heating - hydronic, electric wire or air tubes  Non-toxic silicate sealer for polished concrete slab floors Learn more about the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Member...

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Resilient home construction - Kenogami House of the Year
Efficient home design

"The Most Resilient House in North America"

...heating degree days per year (Fahrenheit degree-days, base 65°F); there isn’t all that much sunlight in the winter, and Quebec—let alone northern Quebec—isn’t the first place that comes to mind with cutting-edge building design. But in Saguenay, located 130 miles north of Quebec City, Alain Hamel has created what just ...

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

Ecohome Kenogami House wins Home of the Year Award

...heating system turned off for a 10 day stretch in February, yet maintained indoor temperatures in the mid 20s (°C) and dropped only to 20.4 °C after consecutive overcast days. To balance temperatures through the home, unheated water is pumped through the concrete slab floor to help transfer the warmth of the sun from t...

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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

...heating system. In order to help others to not make the same mistakes, I'll both lay out what we did and how it was problematic, as well as how we went about fixing the problems for the future. What we installed initially Radiant floor boiler © Craig Anderson We installed a hydronic heating system powered by...

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Passively-heated off-grid LEED house in Low, Quebec
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog: a firsthand account of building and living in a remote area

...floor great room with great windows & light © Bala Structures The interesting thing about passive solar design is that much of the heating load is carried by the heat coming in the windows, with energy modeling suggesting that about 30% of the house's total heat load is being passively provided by the sun. The ...

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