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"Radiant heat"

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

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Electric Fireplaces: Are They a Good Choice For Green Homes?
Heating with electricity

Electric fireplaces: are they a good option for green homes?

...heaters, cook stoves, hair dryers or even your toaster. Read more here about why you should heat your house with electricity. More efficient than an electric fireplace or any source of electric heat would be an electric heat pump, as a heat pump is 3 times more efficient than other heat sources. We love heat pumps, but...

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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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Electric convection heaters for homes, the Ecohome Guide
Heating with electricity

A buyer's guide for convection heaters

...heating on occupied areas to avoid wasting energy. Choose the right model: If insulation is an issue, consider heaters with ceramic elements or thermal mass for better heat retention. Why choose a convection heater? Convection heaters may use more electricity than heat pumps or radiant heaters in certain scenarios, bu...

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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

...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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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

...heated by those solar panels in winter, when the sun's angle is lower, will be fed into the floor heating radiant system, which will reduce the energy demand on the heater coil. Conversely and cleverly, in summer if the heat isn't needed in the house, the heat is diverted to an air/water heat exchanger for heating the ...

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

DIY radiant floor tubing installation video

...heat throughout the house. Now you know about how to install your own hydronic tubing for hydronic heat. Find more about efficient home design in the Ecohome Building Guide and on these pages:  Installing electric floor heating systems  Build your own DIY solar air heater for free heat Heat pump water heaters...

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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

...heat pump which will serve as an air conditioner. In effect this will prevent the home from overheating during consecutive sunny days in winter, while producing hot water essentially for free. Heat extracted from indoor air will be transferred to the existing hot water tank, allowing excess daytime heat to be used for ...

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Built to ENDURE: the Net Zero Heat Kenogami House
Efficient home design

The Kenogami House: designed to ENDURE

...heating and cooling are most often the largest components of the total energy consumption of a building, how energy efficient a building is largely depends on the building envelope. It controls heat loss, air leakage and the movement of moisture.  What is often omitted from the equation that determines the overall effi...

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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

...heat into the ground or concrete walls slower. All the windows in the house have fiberglass frames, are triple-paned with argon gas, and have an insulating value of roughly R-5. The windows facing south were all chosen to allow in more of the sun's heat (called solar heat gain coefficient, SHGC), whereas windows facing...

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