RE: [GBlist] re: Heat Sources

["Kurtovich, Martin" <MRK0@pge.com>]

Don't radiant floor heating systems typical use ethylene glycol as the fluid
media
to distribute heat to the surrounding concrete?  If that is the case, scale
is not
an issue.

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Subject: Re: [GBlist] re: Heat Sources



Tubing in concrete may have to be dug out when mineral scale builds up in
the tubes.

paul & barb - on the continental divide
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On 9/26/2002 at 3:58 PM Chris Koehn wrote:

>Donna-
>
>If you are doing a geo thermal system, why not run tubing in the concrete
>floor that will be in your basement anyway? This has to be about the most
>efficient way to heat such a space I can think of, both from an energy
>consumption standpoint and a build out cost standpoint.
>I have such a system in my home and it works great.
>I have put in-floor heat in for folks who aren't using a geo system, and
>fired it with a water heater. These systems also work well, are low tech,
>and very efficient. Both Journal of Light Construction and Fine
>Homebuilding
>have done articles on such systems.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>Top Ridge Timber Frame homes Inc.
>Cascade, WI 
>
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