I m a complete novice on such issues.
Central heating pipes in concrete floor.
Posted 7 years ago wwaswas.
My house has concrete floors on the ground floor and the rad and central heating pipes run between the wall and plasterboard via 10mm microbore piping.
Plastic central heating pipes buried in concrete.
There s two basic types of concrete floor heating hydronic and electric.
The most cost effective system for medium to larger homes is hydronic since the amount of power it would take to heat a whole home with electric would be substantial.
There s a very strong chance that there are central heating pipes where i want to remove concrete.
Plumbing forum plumbing advice.
Ducting system for heating pipes in concrete.
Monday 31st march 2014.
How does radiant heat work.
Basic materials for radiant floor heat installation in a slab.
I have recently bought a house with an electric heating.
Central heating pipes concrete floor grrr.
Due to it s density and low conductivity concrete retains heat very well.
Remember since you will only have 1 chance to pour the concrete slab you will only have 1 chance to put the pex tubing in it.
I want to replace this with oil fired central heating.
Help leak under concrete floor.
So even if there are no existing plans for the radiant floor heating or a snow melting system installing pex tubing in it may turn out to be a good decision.
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I need to remove some concrete from my living room floor for two reasons.