Sub Floor Heating Tubing

Smarttrac hydronic radiant floor heating.

Sub floor heating tubing.

Let us show you how. Installing tubing within a subfloor. There are two types of radiant floor heating electric and water based systems. Flooring layers that lay above the radiant coils and the subfloor benefit from the simple fact that heat rises.

This works well when you cannot access the floor from below. Photo by russell kaye in first floor living spaces. If you have multiple loops put a piece of tape on the ends of the tubing and label which end is connected to the heat source and which returns to the heat. Both provide heating in a room from the floor up for consistent efficient warmth.

Installed easily over a subfloor or over an acoustic insulating underlayment as part of the overall floor assembly it uses just 12 watt per square foot to gently raise the temperature of the floor. Warm water systems run hot water through pipes to create heat whereas electric underfloor heating heats wiring beneath the floor to generate heat. Learn how to install radiant heating on top of a subfloor. Pex is an acronym for cross linked polyethylene a plastic tubing installers use for hydronic radiant heating systems.

The feet are always warmer than the head. How to install pex tubing for a radiant heat floor. Space the plates along the tubing as directed by the manufacturer. Radiant floor heat stratifies the heat from the feet to the head.

This is what feels naturally comfortable to our bodies. Staple the plate to the subfloor. A pex radiant floor heating system can be the most comfortable efficient and often may be installed for less than other heat delivery hydronic systems. Subfloor heating systems rest between the subfloor and the floor covering.

Learn how to install radiant heating on top of a subfloor. You can use a boiler or a standard water heater to warm the water for these systems. Smarttrac is a non structural modular panel system designed to simplify radiant heating and cooling installations in subfloor wall and ceiling applications. The best way to retrofit radiant floor heating without disturbing an existing floor is to do it from below against the underside of the subfloor.

As might be expected direct or close contact heating always transmits the most heat. This works well when you cannot access the floor from below. Installing radiant tubing on top of a subfloor. Hold the tubing against the underside of the subfloor and put an aluminum plate over it.

A single length of tubing will loop under each first floor room.