"Radiant heat"

Radiant heat / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Design and construction of frost-protected shallow foundations with radiant heat

...heated by those solar panels in winter, when the sun's angle is lower, will be fed into the floor heating radiant system, which will reduce the energy demand on the heater coil. Conversely and cleverly, in summer if the heat isn't needed in the house, the heat is diverted to an air/water heat exchanger for heating the ...

Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Air-heated radiant floor slab foam forming systems

...heating, electrically-heated mats are sometimes installed below the tiles in bathroom floors for added comfort. What you don’t see a lot of, are floors heated with air. Electric wire radiant floor heating © Ecohome How to make air-heated floors work: Since the first forced-air heating systems were introd...

Architecture and plan design

How to design for thermal comfort in a home

...radiant heat, specifically floors. Walls and ceilings can equally be heated and cooled, it is just much less common. Studies seem to show that there isn't a lot of energy savings reported in homes with heated floors, despite the fact that, in theory, there should be. Radiant floor heat temperatures © Uponor With hea...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog: a firsthand account of building and living in a remote area

...heat into the ground or concrete walls slower. All the windows in the house have fiberglass frames, are triple-paned with argon gas, and have an insulating value of roughly R-5. The windows facing south were all chosen to allow in more of the sun's heat (called solar heat gain coefficient, SHGC), whereas windows facing...

Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

DIY radiant floor installation

...heat loss. Contrary to common beliefs, heat does not rise. Warm air rises, but heat goes everywhere. You need only pick up a hot coffee in a ceramic mug to answer this question for yourself. Does all the heat come out the top? Is it cold on the bottom? Absolutely not. Heat radiates from all sides, including the bottom....

Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

DIY radiant floor tubing installation video

...heat throughout the house. You can find out more about Ecohome's LEED V4 Platinum Edelweiss House, Radiant floors, slab on grade construction step by step, Raft slabs for building on soft soils, and anything else about sustainable green home construction in Ecohome's green building guide pages.

Efficient home design

"The Most Resilient House in North America"

...heating degree days per year (Fahrenheit degree-days, base 65°F); there isn’t all that much sunlight in the winter, and Quebec—let alone northern Quebec—isn’t the first place that comes to mind with cutting-edge building design. But in Saguenay, located 130 miles north of Quebec City, Alain Hamel has created what just ...

Passive solar home design

Ecohome Kenogami House wins Home of the Year Award

...heat pump which will serve as an air conditioner. In effect this will prevent the home from overheating during consecutive sunny days in winter, while producing hot water essentially for free. Heat extracted from indoor air will be transferred to the existing hot water tank, allowing excess daytime heat to be used for ...

Efficient home design

The Kenogami House: designed to ENDURE

...heating and cooling are most often the largest components of the total energy consumption of a building, how energy efficient a building is largely depends on the building envelope. It controls heat loss, air leakage and the movement of moisture. What is often omitted from the equation that determines the overall effi...

Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Hydronic heating

...heat, so all the same environmental realities apply. Heating the liquid in a hydronic system can be achieved in many ways: Tankless (on demand) water heaters Combination hot water tank and boiler Combination solar water heater and boiler Geothermal heat pumps Hydronic radiators and baseboard heaters will transfer hea...

Renewable energy

Solar heating and energy generation

...heat as long as your home stands. Solar thermal heating and solar water heaters This refers to using solar panels to absorb heat in a liquid (mix of glycol and water) and redistribute it throughout the house, through radiators or radiant floor heat. A system can work to heat your home, as well as pre-heating your dome...