<VV> Floor Heat

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

to borrow a phrase, Back When, heated copper pipe in concrete floors was 
all the style, ala Frank Lloyd Wright, and it took twenty or thirty 
years to find out that copper pipe corrodes when buried in concrete -- 
this new plastic pipe that is currently in vogue is supposed to be the 
cat's meow, but has it passed the test of time yet?

Back when Corvairs were new, the folks across the street from my folk's 
former house in the Hot Springs district of Klamath Falls, OR, put 
copper pipes in their driveway heated with naturally occurring hot water 
to melt the winter snow and ice, and it worked great for the three years 
we lived there -- that driveway is now mostly unrepaired concrete rubble.

Yes, heated floors are very nice, solar heated floors even nicer, 
especially if you spend a good deal of time laying on them under a 
Corvair, but the potential of drawbacks needs to be carefully considered 
and evaluated.

mo,

Bill S