<VV> Floor Heat

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

Yes, they've been using PEX tubing in Europe in such applications for over  
30 years, successfully. 
 
Make sure there's foam insulation under that slab before you pour it!
 
In a message dated 8/8/2007 1:21:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lechevrier at earthlink.net writes:

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


 



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