Pex Radiant Floor Heating System

Radiant floor heat is a comfortable and efficient heating system.

Pex radiant floor heating system. Radiant heat provides more comfort throughout the home than standard baseboard heat. Along walls with lots of glass or high heat loss the pex should be 6 inch to 9 inch on center on the outside walls for the first 2 feet and 12 inch on center everywhere else. In floor radiant heat system slab on grade for residential slabs we recommend 1 2 inch pex tubing to be 12 inch on center. This is what feels naturally comfortable to our bodies.

Floor heating systems are compatible with nearly all types of finished flooring including ceramic tile stone hardwood laminate engineered wood and many others. Radiant heat is growing in popularity and is now the preferred heating system in new homes. We offer pex pe rt and onix tubing options and solutions for both new construction and retrofit installations. Pex cross linked polyethylene tubing is a flexible pipe used in radiant heat and hydronic heating systems.

Viega offers a full line of prefabricated climate mats for wet installs panels for dry installs tubing manifolds mixing options and controls engineered to work together. A free complete consultation to installing your radiant floor heating system. We offer complete pex systems for both potable plumbing and radiant heating including tubing manifolds fittings and other accessories. The open system heater to provide both floor heating and domestic hot water.

The feet are always warmer than the head. Radiant floor heat stratifies the heat from the feet to the head. 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. The two systems are basically tied together.

Whether you re a professional when it comes to radiant floor heating or looking to do it yourself pexheat can help you determine what you need for your radiant floor design. Radiant heating systems have been around since 10 000 b c but viega has made them more efficient reliable and easier toinstall than ever. In floor radiant heat systems when pex tubing is installed in a concrete slab gypsum or other thermal mass such. It s the cleanest most environmentally friendly of the three methods.