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Very nice looking home AV8R! The vaulted great room with all the windows will be a challenging room to make comfortable in the winter. Radiant floor heat is the way to go in there. If you live in an area needing A/C maybe forced air with radiant floor heat in the great room and bathrooms is the way to go. Budget allowing of course. You could use electric floor heat in the baths, it might be cheaper after labor costs are figured in and it doesn't seem to cost much extra to run.
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The basement will not be finished for a while, so retrofitting "under" floor heat will be possible under the kitchen/dining room and master bath (which will both be tile). I'm unsure of putting it below the great room because that will be wood flooring. I may have to rely on ceiling fans for air movement.
Doing the in-floor heat throughout the House is prohibitively expensive for me, so I am trying to to as much as I can, as I can. Basement floor and garage floor are mandatory as far as I'm concerned, but how it's done is what I'm looking to learn.
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I just finished a new house which has a combination of baseboard and radiant heat. If I had to do it again I would:
1. Put radiant heat in the basement and garage, and lay all the pipe myself. I did not do it because of the cost (and my three small children, hence no time). The bulk of the cost is labor. It is not particuarly difficult, just tedious.
2. Run the piping for radiant heat myself, again, to save on the labor cost.
3. NOT use linoleum in the bathrooms (wiere there is radiant heat). It can be done, but the installer I used put the floring in wrong and it is thus far a nightmare to correct it -- I am not sure what the end result is going to be.
4. We have a great room with lots of southern exposure. In this room we have baeborad heat and a pellet stove. This is my first experience with pellet stoves, and it is great! We leave the heat at 55 with the stove at 70 and hve not had to turn the heat up since we moved in back in November. Without the pllet stove I would be worried about the warmth of the rooom.
Just a few quick thoughts before I need to head off to class...
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I'm in the same boat about retrofitting underneath wood flooring. Not sure how well it will work with 1" subfloor and 3/4" solid oak, especially with a thick tibetan rug and mat on top. Next winter I'll know for sure.
Have you looked at the electric heating mats you put under tile floors? It only added $900-1000 per bathroom to our construction costs six years ago.
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the brand is "buderus"
BUDERUS HYDRONIC SYSTEMS
50 WENTWORTH AVE.
LONDONERRY,NH 03053
TEL.603-552-1100//FAX603-421-2719
WWW.BUDERUS.NET.
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The instant hot water tankless systems I employed in the plant were Takagi. They seemed to work well and were reasonable quality.
I also have the high cellings 24 ft in livingroom and 14ft in the kitchen and bedrooms, but have a number of fans and high E windows. I have not found it too cool but my heat pump does not run continuously. It only kicks on and off unless it is really cold. I found it quite comfortable with the hot water coil. It is just 300 or so for the coil from what I have read. I might add both or try the coil first.
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I am also in the process of building a house this spring. Am going with Geo Thermal heat. (ground to air) it would be worth checking out. Most of the people I have spoken to with this type of heat can heat and cool thier house for less than $500.00 a year.
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$500 a year? They must have some mighty small houses. We run nearly $300/month with our ground source heat pump in the winter and that's with gas hot water. In a 3600 sf house we run about $3000/year for electric. I don't think ground source heatpumps will ever reach payback at todays rates. If the rates double, yes.
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the people I spoke with, two in Northern Minn. and one in N. Dakota say otherwise. the one in N. Dakota has a 3200 sq ft house and he also heated his garage (in floor) and he was less than 600.00 the two in Minn. were less than 400.00 for the year and it's cold in them states.
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At this point the up-front costs on a geo-thermal system are prohibative. BUT, the system I am assembling (hopefully) will be upgradable to several differant alternatives in the future if they are perfected.
I was going to bump this thread back up, but you beat me to it. Thanks.
Please feel free to throw out other ideas. This is all good stuff to think about!
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