Central Heating Concrete Floors

With an in floor heating system the laws of thermodynamics are on your side.

Central heating concrete floors. When an in floor heating system is the perfect solution for comfort. Perhaps the best way to understand how in floor heating can help to heat an entire room is to consider how most furnace based heating and cooling systems operate. Electric floor heating systems typically cost between 10 and 20 per square foot depending on the system you buy. I want to replace this with oil fired central heating.

As the house has concrete floors i don t want to rip the floors up to get the central heating installed and want the pipes to run down the wall through cupboards etc. On the other hand hydronic floor heating systems require the floor height to be raised significantly more. I have recently bought a house with an electric heating. Electric floor heating is more energy efficient less prone to spreading dust and allergens and easier to control from room to room.

Quite simply concrete floor radiant heat is a system of pex tubes that carry hot water throughout a concrete floor or slab. Radiant heat can be an electrical heating element embedded into a very thin concrete overlay then tiled carpeted or have wood flooring installed over it. Typically electric floor heating is used as a supplemental heat source but in some cases it can be used as a primary heat source. This is the best choice for new construction and areas receiving new slabs.

Embedding your radiant heating system into a concrete slab is one of the most cost effective ways to install it and most energy efficient being that concrete is a great thermal mass.