Heat transfer: What you need to know before selecting a heating system for your home
Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems. Heat…
Floor heating: How much does hydronic floor heating cost?
Depending on the method of installation (in-slab, in-screed, timber-batten), the energy source (condensing boiler, air/water heat pump, geothermal heat pump), level of controls and…
Floor heating: How long does it take to heat up?
This depends on your method of construction, and whether it’s the first day of the heating season, or you are a few days/weeks/months into…
Floor heating: How will I know how to use my floor heating system?
Good floor heating systems are set-up so that they are “set and forget”. You set the system up once, and perhaps make a few…
Floor heating: Does the hydronic system require maintenance?
If you’d like to extend your system warranty and keep your heating system at its peak, we recommend a service every second year. We…
What´s a “hydronic system” and how it works
Hydronics is the use of a liquid heat-transfer medium in heating and cooling systems. The working fluid is typically water, glycol, or mineral oil.…
Floor heating: What is the running cost per hour for hydronic floor heating?
This depends on 4 main factors: 1. The thermal efficiency of the building (how much heat it loses and how quickly). 2. The design…
Floor heating: Most common questions answered
1. Can the pipes leak… and what happens if they do? Floor heating pipes can only leak if they are cut or punctured –…
Floor heating: Can solar hot water panels help with my floor heating system?
Solar hot water panels are great because they provide free heat – but usually they provide this heat when you need it the least…
Floor heating: Is it really that important which brand pipes/boiler/heat-pump are used… aren’t they all the same?
You know that when you have hydronic floor heating, you have pipes with water in them embedded within the floor on the ground level…
Beware of the “thermal bridge”: Before you install floor heating
A thermal bridge, also called a cold bridge or heat bridge, is an area or component of an object which has higher thermal conductivity…
Floor heating: Is it any good? (What science says…)
Thermal comfort quality Thermal comfort is, “that condition of mind which expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment and is assessed by subjective evaluation.” (As…