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Radiant Floor Heating In Theory and Practice
Topic Started: Jan 5 2015, 12:26 AM (5 Views)
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<p>Around 100 B.C., Koreans used exhaust smoke from a fireplace to heat a stone floor. Smoke was conveyed from a fireplace (used for cooking) under the floor slab to an opposite wall, where the smoke was exhausted upwards in the wall like a chimney. In this way, the mass of the floor slab also was used as thermal storage. During this time,<a href="http://www.woodfloorprice.com/wood-floor-knowledge/2138.html">2 foot fence boards</a> the Romans also were using this type of heating. </p>
<p>Architect Frank Lloyd Wright introduced floor heating to the United States in his Usonian houses in the 1930s. Circulating water in steel pipes provided heat distribution.</p>
<p> In the 1950s and 60s, floor heating installations using steel or copper pipes were installed in middle Europe. Unfortunately, at this time, buildings were not well insulated so very high floor temperatures were required to heat the houses, which gave floor heating a bad reputation. Then, at the end of the 1970s, the introduction of plastic pipe for floor heating prompted the system to become standard, especially in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Nordic countries. Today, plastic pipes of the PEX-type are mainly used.1 Floor heating is mostly used in residential buildings. However,<a href="http://www.environmentallyfriendlyflooring.com/project/4552.html">price for wood resin composite decking</a> in Europe it is also widely used in commercial and industrial applications. This article gives an overview of issues related to floor heating and discusses how a radiant underfloor system may be used for cooling. </p>
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