Practical advice on heating and cooling your Perth home
Straight answers from the engineers who design and install the systems. Floor heating, radiators, heat pumps, geothermal and heat recovery.
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…
Video: Floor cooling: How prevent condensation and moist or wet floors
Floor cooling will help to keep the temperature of your rooms at a comfortable level during hot days… but make sure you don´t make…
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…
Floor heating: Do I really need thermal insulation?
You don’t have to install thermal insulation (other than what’s required according to the building code). But this means that vast amounts of heat…
Does it make sense to use SOLAR hot water with a hydronic heating system?
The peak heating load for most buildings is when the sun is not shining. When heating is most required (winter) the amount of available…