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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
My next New Hampshire house will have radiant heat in the floor—just like my family's house had in 1952—Rhode Island!  |
Make the shell of your next NH house superinsulated, very tight, and with good windows. You won't have cold spots, and maybe you can pay for that shell with the money saved by skipping the radiant floor plumbing. With a shell like that, you wouldn't be able to run the floor temperature up more than a degree or two above room temperature, so it wouldn't feel warm on the piggies anyway. If you did, in no time at all the whole house would be overheated. Radiant floor heat is nice in an "ordinary" house, built just to pass code, because all that heat the floor generates has a place to go - outdoors in a hurry!