About temperature in FL, I understand, but my cousin just bought a house in NY and also wants to make such a floor)))! I think I should make a switch so that the water can run right into the shower or move through the floor. If I need to heat it.
If you ran a hot water recirculating system through all of it might help.. I know that open systems where the domestic and heating water come from the same source the circulating pump fires each day for 15 minutes to avoid stagnate water and legionella bacteria build up. Keep the loop at least a foot from your toilet so it doesn't melt the wax ring. Personally I'd rather run it through a towel warmer that i've got a bathrobe and slippers on..
leaks.. meh.. its unlikely because you will have Zero fittings in the slab. I've run thousands of miles of PEX and never seen a leak that wasn't from some external thing.
But most of the negative comments are really baseless. The concept is odd and most people don't like stuff they're not used to.
If you ran a hot water recirculating system through all of it might help.. I know that open systems where the domestic and heating water come from the same source the circulating pump fires each day for 15 minutes to avoid stagnate water and legionella bacteria build up. Keep the loop at least a foot from your toilet so it doesn't melt the wax ring. Personally I'd rather run it through a towel warmer that i've got a bathrobe and slippers on..
leaks.. meh.. its unlikely because you will have Zero fittings in the slab. I've run thousands of miles of PEX and never seen a leak that wasn't from some external thing.
But most of the negative comments are really baseless. The concept is odd and most people don't like stuff they're not used to.
But most of the negative comments are really baseless. The concept is odd and most people don't like stuff they're not used to.
I too am familiar with radiant floor heating, having years ago designed and installed a dual-zone electric grid radiant floor system in the entertainment room of a multi-million dollar mansion in California. As I recall, the slab was prepped & primed, the electric mat was affixed to the slab, then we poured a 1/4"-3/8" layer of self-leveling compound, and finally, it was tiled. The negative comments in this thread are not baseless; they are based on experience and an understanding of thermodynamics. And it's not that we don't like the concept of heated floors, it's that we don't like hair-brained DYI hack jobs that may seem like a good idea but are not.But most of the negative comments are really baseless. The concept is odd and most people don't like stuff they're not used to.
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