Radiant Heat Water Temperature Concrete

Typical radiant heat temperatures under finished wood flooring.

Radiant heat water temperature concrete.

Radiant heating systems supply heat directly to the floor or to panels in the wall or ceiling of a house. For water temp no. Temperature range or about 105 115 f. Like sand concrete is an ideal carrier of radiant heat because of its inherent thermal mass.

The systems depend largely on radiant heat transfer the delivery of heat directly from the hot surface to the people and objects in the room via infrared radiation. Typically radiant heating systems warm floors to temperatures of 75 to 80 degrees f. Outdoor reset consist of a control box an outdoor temp sensor and a water temp sensor. Forced air heating curve ideal heating curve radiant heating curve ceiling 60 70 80.

The higher it is above 101 the quicker it ages. Concrete is placed over tubing for a radiant floor. The radiant heated wood floor shown in our photo left was installed in a new york home. Under wood floors nailed right to the subfloor and tubing below radiant heat temperatures are typically at the middle of our 85 135 f.

Inside temp may fall as low as 53f at the cool end of a cycle although 55 56f is more typical. Efficiency it delivers radiant floor fig. Its then set up to increase the water temp as the outdoor temp gets colder so the water temp matches the heat loss load of the house. The floor sensor temp will fall to 61f when another heat cycle will start.

Heat profiles from floor to ceiling show how radiant heat provides close to the ideal temperature whereas conventional heating deviates from the ideal.