| Hey-Jude |
Does anyone out there know the word I'm looking for ?? It's the brand name ( like Kleenex ) used to describe a hydronic floor heating system?
It's something like Widbow ? It's driving me crazy and I can't seem to find it online.
We're thinking about building a new home and a co-worker who just built his own house (acting as his own GC) put it in for like 4 or 5 thousand before they even poured the concrete foundation. However, I mentioned it to our builder sales guy and he said he's only had one person do it and it was super expensive... like 20 grand or more.
Anyone have experience with one of these systems? Keeps the concrete basement floor warm as well as optionally any tile/cold floors throughout the house.
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| Pauls MDX |
| It's an excellent system, I would consider for sure if the price is not to high. You'll only have the one chance prior to construction to install. I heard it can be installed under driveway, sidewalks and yes the basement. I would for sure do under the tile floor in bathrooms, Radiant heat it's the best. I have to choose a way to heat a tiled bathroom from floor to ceiling and couldn't do Radiant because it to costly to install after the construction, and instead have to install a Kick heater in a closet to avoid an ugly steel radiator on the floor. I had wished the prior owner would of put in the Radiant System under the tile floor. |
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| zman |
I live in Minneapolis and I am doing this in my basement right now. The total finished square feet I am finishing off is about 900 sf. The cost is about $5000, if you ignore the cement I need to repour. I tore out the cement in the basement to change the bathroom rough-in location. As long as I needed to tear out a bunch of cement for the rough-in my contractor decided to tear out all 900 sf of existing cement. It worked out pretty well for me since my contractor also owns a cement business.
I think the cost depends on how much area you need to heat and how many zones you want (duh!). For my $5000 my contractor will put down a vapor barrier, 1.5" of polystyrene insulation, the Wirsbo tubing, and hook eveything up. I am making everything a single zone and I am using a power vent water heater as the heat source. If you do a whole house I think you might need a boiler to heat the water.
So as you can see it is not cheap but boy is it nice. I have two friends that have radiant floor heat in their basements and it is really nice being able to spend time in a basement and not be cold.
Hey-Jude, I just realized your also in Mpls. Let me know if you have any specific questions I can try to answer. |
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