Keeping your feet warm is the key to comfort, which is one reason why homeowners are increasingly turning to WarmRite Floor® hydronic radiant heating systems over conventional methods. Conventional forced air systems trap heat near the ceiling, where it's least useful, while drying the air out by lowering its relative humidity. This dry air will always feel colder than more humid air at the same temperature. Like the luxurious feeling of sunshine on your skin, the warmth of direct hydronic radiant heat can turn any home into a comfortable and healthy environment. A radiant heating system starts at the floorboards warming your entire home by delivering a comfortable, even heat without creating the drafts and dust problems associated with traditional heating methods. The comfort of hydronic radiant heating comes from heated water being pumped through a network of piping laid beneath the floor. By turning the entire floor surface into a giant low temperature radiator, floors and objects in the room become warmer and more inviting to the touch. Like rays from the sun, WarmRite Floor system puts your skin in direct contact with its heat source, delivering a comfortable warmth that starts with the coolest part of your body - your feet.
How does radiant heating work? WarmRite Floor is installed and in use in homes, schools, seniors' residences and commercial buildings throughout North America. Super-tough piping (XPAT composite pipe or PEX tubing) is placed in a looping pattern within the floor. Most often it is installed directly into the ground floor or basement concrete slab. Over top of wooden subfloors, the pipe can be covered by a thin layer of lightweight concrete or sandwiched in between the subfloor and finished flooring. It may also be installed underneath a wooden subfloor between the floor joists. Once the pipe loops are installed, they are connected to a WarmRite Control Panel which connects to a heat source. This can be either a dedicated boiler for primary heating systems or a hot water tank for smaller supplemental systems. Heated water is drawn from the heat source and circulated through the floor piping. The water flowing through the floor piping transfers energy to the floor which radiates warmth into the room. This warmth is controlled by the WarmRite Floor Control Panel, which senses room or floor temperature and adjusts the heat to suit your needs.
FLOOR: In new construction or retrofit projects - encased in concrete slabs, over existing concrete or sub-floors with thin topping pour, under sub-floors between joists - IPEX WarmRite Floor ® can be installed under any type of flooring, including ceramic tile, linoleum, carpet, hardwood or laminate. The tough abrasion and corrosion resistance of advanced piping materials such as our XPA TM PEX-Al-PEX composite tubing have made a wide range of hydronic radiant floor heating installations possible:
Slab-on-grade
Tube & plate system
K-Tile
WALLS & CEILINGS : Where floor heating is not possible, because of floor covering selection, heating load requirements or other considerations, installing IPEX WarmRite Floor ® in walls and ceilings offers an ideal alternative. Because radiant energy travels equally well in any direction, walls and ceilings make excellent radiant panels. In walls, hydronic piping is installed directly under the drywall, using aluminum heat transfer plates which hold the radiant tubing in U-shaped channels in the plates, between plywood strapping boards attached to the studs. Radiant ceiling construction is similar, with the plywood strapping boards attached to the bottom of the ceiling joists. Hedonically heated walls and ceilings offer several unique advantages: WarmRite Floor ® radiant wall heating significantly improves comfort in bathroom showers and indoor pool enclosures, warming cold tile surfaces and drying walls quickly, even where usable floor area is limited. Radiant ceilings emit unobstructed heat to warm countertops, tubs and sink surfaces, as well as exposed floors, in kitchens and bathrooms where a large portion of the floor is taken up with base cabinets, islands or appliances. Because walls and ceilings typically have low thermal mass, they can respond quickly to changing load conditions in areas which experience significant solar gains or other sources of internal heat, or cooling. WarmRite Floor ® in walls and ceilings adds little weight, so structural alterations are not required. Hydronically heated ceilings take up less vertical space than floor installations, often an advantage in retrofitting older homes. Because there is no potential contact with bare feet, radiant heating in walls and ceilings can be operated at higher heat outputs, reducing the area of installed piping required and lowering installation costs. The heat output of walls and ceilings, which are usually coated with only paint or wallpaper, remains unaffected when floors are covered with high-resistance floor coverings or furniture WARMRITE BASEBOARD,RADIATOR, FAN COIL SYSTEMS: IPEX WarmRite Floor ® radiant heating systems can be made even more efficient by incorporating a variety of complementary lower thermal mass emitters such as fin-tube baseboards, standalone panel radiators and fan-coil radiators, configured in secondary heating circuits and subassemblies with staging control. These lower thermal mass emitters heat up and cool down quickly, offering faster response times in areas that experience periodic heat gains from sunlight, equipment, people and other sources. With fin-tube baseboards, for example, heat input can be quickly interrupted to maintain even heating when solar gains occur. In addition, radiant baseboards and standalone radiators help simplify zoning. Heat output can be balanced by varying the lengths of piping used in secondary circuits, as well as the spacing of piping in the floor subassembly. Flow rates can also be varied as needed using balancing valves. WARMRITE SNOW MELT SYSTEMS Installed outdoors - directly under under concrete, asphalt, paving stones or interlocking brick - IPEX WarmRite Floor ® snow & ice melting systems offer improved winter safety and reduced maintenance in high-traffic commercial, institutional, industrial and residential locations. Proven reliable and effective at clearing loading docks, driveways, walkways, plazas and courtyards where snow and ice can put employees, visitors and the general public at risk of slips and falls, WarmRite Floor ® hydronic radiant heating systems pay for themselves many times over by saving thousands of dollars a year in snow removal costs. Under sidewalks, patios and driveways in residential applications, WarmRite Floor ® is an effective alternative to snow blowing or shoveling - savings hours of labor and hundreds of dollars in snow removal equipment.
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