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"Radiant floor"

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

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

Hydronic heating systems, the complete guide to radiant heat

...floors. As hot water circulates through these pipes, it evenly heats the floor and the surrounding space. For existing homes or where a poured floor isn’t feasible, 'dry' installations use PEX pipes placed in joist spaces or beneath suspended wood floors, distributing warmth through the floor above. Hydronic under floo...

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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

...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 introduced into homes, there have been attempts to distribute that heat through flooring sys...

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How radiant floors work
Architecture and plan design

How to design for thermal comfort in a home

...radiant heat, specifically floors. 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 heated floors, despite the fact that, in theory, there should be. Radiant floor heat temperatures © Uponor  With hea...

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Crawl spaces or slab on grade foundations?
Foundations and Basements

Slab on grade or crawlspaces, which is better?

...radiant-heated floor provides 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 concrete floor with a non-toxic finish is the most durable and healthy fl...

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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 main floor will be polished concrete with healthy, non-toxic concrete sealants The second floor will be Marmoleum, which ...

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How to Build a Frost Protected Shallow Foundation (FPSF) Forms
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Design and construction of frost-protected shallow foundations with radiant heat

...radiant floors over hydronic radiant floors, but none greater than the ability to inject solar-heated air into the thermal battery which is the concrete slab floor.  Building a frost protected shallow foundation (FPSF) with Passive Solar air-heated radiant floor slab  © Ecohome Solar air heating panels are a growing ...

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

DIY radiant floor tubing installation video

...radiant floor in the Edelweiss House. We have a 10 zone system, allowing floor temperatures 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...

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

"The Most Resilient House in North America"

A resilient home for sustainability Northern Quebec isn’t a place where one might expect to look for a model of resilience. It’s bone-chilling cold in the winter with 10,450 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 ...

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Rendering of the Ecohome demonstration house
Efficient home design

Ecohome Demo House: high performance, affordable cost

...Floors will be finished before putting up divisions, enabling future changes to the layout without the costs and hassle of requiring flooring alterations. The floor plan was designed and the house positioned on the lot to allow for a suitable location for an addition if desired, off the west living room wall. Storage w...

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Off grid, passively heated and cooled house in the Gatineau Hills, Que
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off grid living blog, part 2: passively heated, this house in Quebec aims for LEED certification

...radiant floors warmed by a propane boiler. A double exterior wall system reduces heat loss to a fraction of what you would expect from most other new houses being built. Off Grid Homes can also be attractive © Bala structures   Exterior wall composition - from inside to out: Gypsum board with zero VOC paint...

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Basement wall insulation
Insulation and soundproofing

Properly insulating basements and concrete slab floors

...floor, you can see that in the first image of an uninsulated floor, the colour gradient from warm to cold shows that heat lost to the ground below is evident to a depth of many feet, while in the images with insulated floors you can see that much more heat is contained by the insulation. Also worth noting is the light ...

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