with the water method of heating a floor if you're in the basement do you hear the water constintly running through the pipes? It's called house shoes or slippers as we call them in Canada, keep your feet warm and you don't have a monthly bill, unless your slippers somehow get wrecked all the time. As for this heating a driveway to keep the snow off I think if you keep on top of the snow and shovel once it's done it won't be so bad but for the ritch people that pay that if they didn't have that they would have someone clean their driveway and wipe their butt for them too. hahaha
Blaine ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:02 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Radiant floor heating. I've been doing a lot of research into heated floors. There are two main kinds of radiant floors, electric or hydronic (water). You can bury pipes in the cement floor, or place them in the joist bays beneath a wood floor, then use hot water flowing through the pipes to heat the floor. You can also use electric mesh mats under a layer of cement or cyramic tile to heat the floor. Depending on where you live, this could be pretty expensive. Heating a floor inside a house is a lot less expensive than heating a driveway or sidewalk. Electrically heating a driveway to melt snow would be for the rich only I would expect. heating the floor in the house would be much more cost effective. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
