Radiant Heat and Wood Floors
More and more radiant systems going into existing homes as retrofit projects. On many of these jobs the tubing winds up getting attached to the underside of the wood floo...
Hot-Water Heating → Radiant Heating Help Topics
This section is your guide to hot-water heating systems with information about system design and piping, air elimination, pumping away, primary-secondary pumping, valves, radiators, troubleshooting tips, and more.
Recent Articles in Hot-Water Heating → Radiant Heating
The First Radiant Heating Jobs
Each morning, when I sit at my desk, I give a moment’s thought to the broken copper pipes that are buried in the concrete slab just below my feet. The guy who lived here ...
Types of PEX pipe
You have options when it comes to the tubing you bury or staple up on a radiant job. You may choose to go with a particular supplier and never question the type of tubing...
Oxygen-Diffusion Corrosion in Radiant Heating Systems
Whether you’re doing radiant floor heating or hydronic snowmelt jobs, it pays to give lots of thought to this oxygen-diffusion corrosion business. Since this is one of th...
Levittown Radiant Heating Systems
I grew up in Hicksville, Long Island (don't laugh!) and I spent a good part of Junior and Senior High School sharing a classroom with Billy Joel, and that is my single br...
The Human Body is a Radiator
This goes back a bunch of years but the horror remains as raw and smelly now as if did then, and I can’t blame the airlines. It was the alphabet’s fault. But before we ge...