Installing Radiant Floor Heating On Concrete Slab

Radiant heating system design or installation mistakes that must be avoided.

Installing radiant floor heating on concrete slab.

Basic materials for radiant floor heat installation in a slab remember since you will only have 1 chance to pour the concrete slab you will only have 1 chance to put the pex tubing in it. The workers in the photograph at page top where our concrete slab. Quite simply concrete floor radiant heat is a system of pex tubes that carry hot water throughout a concrete floor or slab. While it was done as a new house was being built in my last house i poured a concrete floor on top of a wood framed floor system and could have put radiant heat in that as well.

Tubing the water will circulate in tubing running beneath the floor in the concrete under wood floors or on a sub floor of wood precast concrete or slab on grade concrete. From a radiant heating perspective it doesn t matter if the slab is actually at grade or is poured several feet below grade as part of a full foundation. This article explains how to avoid some fatal mistakes when installing radiant heat in a concrete floor slab by describing an incompetent radiant heat floor installation along with an explanation of why things went wrong and how to avoid these errors. Another option for radiant floor heating that is energy efficient are systems that circulate hot water through small tubes under the floor.

Qualified system installer the company who designs the radiant floor heating system may also install the system. The system works via pex pipe a small pump a water heater and a thermostat. These radiant floor heating systems can also be installed on top of a slab before the flooring goes down. Check out our video how to install radiant floor heat tubing in a slab on grade and read this page for a full description.