North Central US | clevepreach - 1/22/2026 23:21
When my wife and I first married we lived in an apartment that had baseboard heat. Hot water was pumped through tubes mounted on the baseboards. If you built a house on a concrete slab I wonder if such a system could be used to have a grid of tubing embedded in the slab to heat the floor and thus heat the house? Would such a thing be feasible and efficient?
Your talking about the much loved floor heat you see people arguing about on here when talking about building a shop.
Floor heat is extremely common in farm shops, and is becoming common in new house construction here. I know of a few who did it and it works great. Some have it as their only heat source. Most have it work in tandem with some type of traditional forced air, so they can have AC that way.
Welker farms did a small series while the one built his new house, his basement has a heated floor. |
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