Central Heating Pipes In Concrete Floor

Basic materials for radiant floor heat installation in a slab.

Central heating pipes in concrete floor. Posted 7 years ago wwaswas. There s two basic types of concrete floor heating hydronic and electric. Help leak under concrete floor. I have recently bought a house with an electric heating.

I need to remove some concrete from my living room floor for two reasons. How does radiant heat work. Due to it s density and low conductivity concrete retains heat very well. There s a very strong chance that there are central heating pipes where i want to remove concrete.

Under concrete pipes leaking or heat exchanger. Ducting system for heating pipes in concrete. Plumbing forum plumbing advice. Central heating pipes concrete floor grrr.

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. Monday 31st march 2014. The most cost effective system for medium to larger homes is hydronic since the amount of power it would take to heat a whole home with electric would be substantial.

Completing on a new house. I m a complete novice on such issues. Remember since you will only have 1 chance to pour the concrete slab you will only have 1 chance to put the pex tubing in it. Reply prev of 3.

So even if there are no existing plans for the radiant floor heating or a snow melting system installing pex tubing in it may turn out to be a good decision.