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After 2 months of breaking stuff and moving walls today the heating company came in and laid insulation and warm water hoses for underfloor heating.
The black stuff is a thin layer of insulation with plastic clips to route the hoses and keep them in place. In some places they also stapled the hoses in place.
The didn't put the hoses around the edge of the room since that is where the kitchen cabinets will go and long term heating under the cabinet causes damage.
The hoses are kind of neat, with three layers, plastic, aluminum and plastic.
Tomorrow they contractor will cover everything with fine gravel and start tiling the floor.
Still need to prepare the pad outside for the heatpump.
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We installed an electrical floor heating system in our master bathroom when we remodeled it. I resisted (so to speak) but love it. Power is cheaper in the Pacific NW.
 
Mark, yours is probably electric (Most in the NW are). His is hot water tubes that's powered b heat pump and hopefully with solar backing
 
Yep... and electric was very easy to install (with only one new circuit).
 
We had a copper pipe burst in the slab of the house. It heated the floor quite well but just where the leak was. House was about 17 years old when it happened.
 
Give me a good old fashioned hypocaust. No water lines to potentially burst.
 
DNK said:
His is hot water tubes that's powered b heat pump and hopefully with solar backing
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It will be connected to my solar water system, but not quite the way you are thinking. It will provide back up heating for the domestic solar hot water system. When it cold enough that I need heating the sun isn't really intense or constant enough to make the investment in additional solar collectors worthwhile.
 
70herald said:
It will be connected to my solar water system, but not quite the way you are thinking. It will provide back up heating for the domestic solar hot water system. When it cold enough that I need heating the sun isn't really intense or constant enough to make the investment in additional solar collectors worthwhile.
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I thought you lived in Israel?
 
DNK said:
I thought you lived in Israel?
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I do... but Jerusalem is at 830m altitude and it gets cold in the winter. (ok not northern US cold... still when it is right around freezing for a 3-4 months you need decent heating)

This was the view from our window last Feb. We don't get snow every year, but it is not rare either.
Because of the north facing direction of our apartment, we actually use the heating more than cooling.

Tel Aviv which is only about a 45minute drive is VERY different, even in the winter you only need heat a few days a year but the summer is hot and sticky.

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DNK said:
But you get Sunshine a lot don't you?
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Sure LOTS of sun -- but in the spring, summer and fall. In the winter not so much and certainly not enough to help heat the house. My solar hot water system uses the electric back up almost every day in the winter.
 
Wow, here I thought it was almost always sunny there
 
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