floor heating requires someone to DO THE MATH. (Emphasis for my fellow contractors). Hey I love Red Green but I wouldn let him heat my house.
Under-floor heating requires someone to DO THE MATH. (Emphasis for my fellow contractors). Hey I love Red Green but I wouldn’t let him heat my house. First, I thank you for taking the time to search the archive and I appreciate your sagacious inquiry. Nothing can be intelligently started on a new heating plant until someone figures out how much heat will be lost during design conditions (-13F for Ottawa by my ASHRAE Fundamentals reference). Now I know that you folks north of the border have some of the finest Hydronic people in the world as I met many of them in 1994 at a design school in Burlington hosted by your own Canadian Hydronics Council. If your contractor can’t produce a computer-generated heat load analysis for your home -new or old- fire him. Once a heat load analysis is performed your options can be quickly and accurately ascertained.
