Good morning,
I live in southern Ontario. One bathroom in my house, while has forced air supply, doesn't get enough heat (it is the farthest room from the furnace, and it only has a small duct, because there is no space in the crawl space walls to get the main duct that far). The room is 200 sq feet, and the heat loss for this room is 6-12k BTU/h, depending on the calculator I use. I am considering installing a hydronic floor heating for this room only as a secondary heating source, and want to do a closed loop system. One of the options is to use a completely separate small water heater (tankless or with a tank), something that was designed with the space heating in mind.
Do regulations in Ontario allow using a water heater (not a boiler) only for space heating, if this is a secondary heating source?
I live in southern Ontario. One bathroom in my house, while has forced air supply, doesn't get enough heat (it is the farthest room from the furnace, and it only has a small duct, because there is no space in the crawl space walls to get the main duct that far). The room is 200 sq feet, and the heat loss for this room is 6-12k BTU/h, depending on the calculator I use. I am considering installing a hydronic floor heating for this room only as a secondary heating source, and want to do a closed loop system. One of the options is to use a completely separate small water heater (tankless or with a tank), something that was designed with the space heating in mind.
Do regulations in Ontario allow using a water heater (not a boiler) only for space heating, if this is a secondary heating source?