Make My Own Radiant Floor Heating With Hot Water Heater

Installing tubing between floor joists.

Make my own radiant floor heating with hot water heater.

Planning your own tubing layout. Installing tubing within a subfloor. This is about installing hydronic radiant floor heating in a slab floor system. As a practical example i have a radiant floor system installed in a building with a design day load of 30 36 000 btu hr.

I ve been doing this for about five years now and haven t blown. It is much more common with radiant floor heating which can function quite well down at 100f water temperature in many cases. Radiant floor hydronic water heating system. 2 hot water for the radiant floor heat and for domestic use is supplied by the same ge 80 gallon electric water heater.

The dominant heating method in the us right now is the forced air furnace a big box in your basement that blows air and dust through a huge network of bulky air tubes so it can reach. If you have never heard about this you ll want to tune in. Installing tubing in the ceiling. We have a sun room off the back of the house that is 10x16.

There are collectors on the roof heating water which heats a tank in the basement full of water which is then pumped through the floor. Solar domestic water heater owners manual. And one of these experimental projects is to build my own radiant under floor heating system. The house had hot water radiant heat and no a c.

It is on a slab and the owner added radiant in floor heating under the granite. Either a hot water heater or a boiler handles all the heated water necessary to power the radiant floor heating needs. The boiler was from the 70 s and there was a flat roof. My house has solar heated hydronic radiant floors.

I use a more or less conventional wood stove as a cloudy weather backup both for the convection and to heat the water to pump through the floor. Installing tubing in the walls. Solar domestic water heater installation manual. 3 to the best of my knowledge the water heater is not equipped with a mixer valve and the home is not equipped with a crossover valve.

Meanwhile a separate hot water heater takes care of the household hot water. But because domestic hot water is used only intermittently this would rarely be a problem. This water heater was installed in may 2015 just 18 months before i bought the home. The building must be well insulated the typical reason for using a hot water heater is the inability to get a boiler that s small enough for the load of a well insulated building.

I bought a 2 500 ft split level home in southern wisconsin. A typical small boiler is 100 000 btu hr so it would be in standby 2 3 of the time even on that coldest day which is typically for no more than a week and not every year. For instance in my radiant floor system the water returning to the heating unit from the heating loops is only 10 f to 20 f below the zone design output temperature of 110 f to 120 f much higher than the incoming well water s 40 f.