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re: low temp radiators
3 dec 2002
news wrote:
>having underfloor heating panels under a wood or chipboard floor a can be
>problematical as there is no, or precious little, thermal mass under a
>suspended floor.
a radiant floor with tubing needs sideways conductivity, some way to spread
the heat from the tubes to the surface. thermal mass is a different property,
with some undesirable characteristics like weight and setback limits, in this
application.
>in scotland they use a method of soundproofing called pugging, which is sand
>or ashes poured into the void of a suspended floor. it is very effective.
nice. sand sounds less messy than ashes, with more desirable thermal mass.
>maybe pug the floor up to the suspended floorboards and use the sand as mass
>with pipes inserted under. kill two birds with the one stone, sound and heat.
sand isn't conductive enough to help much there. consider arithmetic...
nick
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