Tips and General Info About Radiant Floor Heating in Glenwood Springs, CO

Radiant floor heating is an extremely efficient form of heat distribution that allows you to more evenly heat spaces in your home through the floor rather than relying on small forced air vents to fill up large spaces.

In this type of system, water runs through PEX tubing located in/underneath the floor. The water in that tube “radiates” the heat into the structure in which it is housed. This makes it an extremely efficient, cost-effective method for heating a home or building.

Radiant floor heating in Glenwood Springs, CO is becoming extremely popular in new residential homes thanks to the development of PEX, a type of flexible polyurethane tubing that can last more than a century. This tubing snakes underneath the floor and uses that entire floor as its method of heat delivery. The result is greater comfort for homeowners and significantly greater efficiency, as well as more interior design options, as there are no vents or radiators to plan around.

Types of radiant flooring systems

There are three main types of radiant flooring systems you can implement in your home:

• Radiant air floors: These types of floors do not hold in large amounts of heat. This makes them ideal for use in commercial buildings.
• Electric radiant floors: These floors are ideal for heating most types of homes, but also tend to be more expensive.
• Liquid or hydronic floors: These are a more cost-effective form of radiant flooring system, which makes them extremely popular in residential projects.

Within each of these types of radiant flooring systems, there are a lot of different specifications and settings you’ll need to consider. For example, radiant heat baseboard temperatures should be set at about 180 to get the most efficiency out of residential heating systems, but in commercial applications these types of settings may vary from space to space.

In addition, hydronic flooring systems can be used throughout an entire home if you like, but they can also be used on smaller scales, such as to heat a basement. Keep in mind that with different types of flooring used (concrete versus wood, for example), there will be different installation steps you might need to take to ensure the long-term integrity of that flooring.

Installing radiant flooring systems

There are two main types of installation of radiant systems: wet and dry.

Wet installation is most commonly used when working on the ground floor. It involves excavating the area you will heat, adding an insulating layer over which the floor system will lay, adding rebar to support the floor system, adding the plastic tubing through which the water will run and tying it to the rebar, then adding concrete to create a slab foundation on top of which the finished floor will lie.

Dry installation is typically used on a home’s upper floors, and involves suspending the plastic tubing beneath the subfloor and between the floor joists.

For more information about radiant floor heating in Glenwood Springs, CO, contact Garrett Hansen Plumbing Inc. today.

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