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$5000 bucks, installed, to heat a 400 sf space, in a moderate-climate area? Crazy expensive. Projected savings from energy bill is $200/year. Doin' the math, I'd be in my nineties when I broke even. Falling energy prices don't matter here in OR; we're hydro-powered. Even the local energy company rebate doesn't make a big diff ($750).
Solution: there's a working floor heating system in the master bath: it's changed our perception of heating, entirely. There is nothing like being half-asleep and stepping onto those warm tiles on a cold morning. At one time, there also was a radiant system in the master bedroom: we've decided to get an electrician in and look into getting that working again: floor heating by far now is our preferred method (can't do it for the rest of the home 'cause it's already on a gas furnace that has highest efficiency rating and it's not old enough to scrap).
Anyone else here have radiant? This isn't a pipe system, it's an electric-wire-embedded-in-something (can't tell what 'cause there cork flooring above it).
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Topic - Heating system: ductless ain't the way we're going. - tinear 10:07:40 12/19/14 (16)
- A different perspective ... - three_sox 15:09:15 12/19/14 (1)
- +1^ - Road Warrior 17:29:28 12/19/14 (0)
- RE: Heating system: ductless ain't the way we're going. - geoff 11:27:22 12/19/14 (3)
- The de-commissioned electric radiant in the master bedroom may be re-connectable. That would be economical in - tinear 12:04:33 12/19/14 (2)
- RE: The de-commissioned electric radiant in the master bedroom may be re-connectable. That would be economical in - geoff 13:45:02 12/19/14 (1)
- Possibly. I'm going to try and speak to the 93-year old former owner who now resides in an assisted living - tinear 17:10:45 12/19/14 (0)
- Radiant has problems - LWR 10:16:43 12/19/14 (9)
- It's only a problem if you treat it like a furnace, i.e. turning it up and down. When kept away from - tinear 12:10:36 12/19/14 (3)
- I was fresh out of the service - LWR 12:21:37 12/19/14 (2)
- Yeah, that's what I've read. Original Eichlers (and they were built by many different contractors/designers) - tinear 17:09:01 12/19/14 (1)
- You may enjoy the pix of this original shape Eichler - LWR 11:05:39 12/20/14 (0)
- radiant has enjoyed some resurgence in popularity - mhardy6647 11:50:32 12/19/14 (4)
- The house we had it in - LWR 11:58:20 12/19/14 (3)
- RE: The house we had it in - Todd A. 07:10:30 12/23/14 (0)
- wood heat is, it probably goes without saying, very popular here - mhardy6647 15:22:03 12/19/14 (1)
- That's a beautiful product! I like the guillotine design: I'd not want one that didn't have the option of - tinear 17:03:27 12/19/14 (0)
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