Installing Radiant Heat In Concrete Slab

Slab heating mats and cables can be installed directly in the concrete when it is being poured.

Installing radiant heat in concrete slab.

This article explains how to avoid some fatal mistakes when installing radiant heat in a concrete floor slab by describing an incompetent radiant heat floor installation along with an explanation of why things went wrong and how to avoid these errors. Offering 20 watts per square foot the slab heat mats are ideal if you. The thermal benefits are unsurpassed. Here s a concrete slab we re getting ready to pour with the radiant heat installed professionally.

Types of concrete slabs with radiant floor heating thick slabs thick slabs are concrete slabs with an overall thickness of 4 6 or greater and can be either grade level slab on grade or. The workers in the photograph at page top where our concrete slab. This system does not move the air with blowers and thereby reduces dust and. Gwen october 7 2015 at 2 31 pm.

Virtually any concrete pour should contain radiant tubing even if you have no immediate plans to heat the space. Will installing a radiant heat floor on a concrete slab foundation cause condensation in between the surfaces. For new construction homes there is yet another way to heat up a cold slab and it starts before the concrete has even hardened. This is one step i see left out of a lot of radiant installations.

I do think concrete floor heat is a great way to go. The fact remains that installing radiant tubing within a concrete slab is probably the easiest most cost effective and highest performance application of the science. Cdw october 17 2015 at 2 58 pm. While it was done as a new house was being built in my last house i poured a concrete floor on top of a wood framed floor system and could have put radiant heat in that as well.

Notice the styrofoam going up the edge of the slab to reduce heat loss. How to install radiant floor heating in concrete. Radiant heating system design or installation mistakes that must be avoided. The system works via pex pipe a small pump a water heater and a thermostat.

This is about installing hydronic radiant floor heating in a slab floor system. The heat from the radiant heated floor rises to heat all surfaces in a room or home.