Concrete slabs, thin slabs and metal plates offer different ways of routing radiant heat underneath every floor in the home

Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating has been in use for some time now. Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating is the use of hot water passing through tubing in the floor to warm your home. Originally the tubing was made of copper, until the costs now to use copper has gotten very expensive. Now a polymer tubing referred to as PEX is used.

Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating is a very cost effective way to warm your home in the cold winter months. When connected to a Passive Solar Water Heater, that requires no auxiliary power source to deliver hot water, Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating is a perfect solution for any off-grid home powered by solar power.

For more information about Hydronic Radiant-Floor Heating, read the article from the pages of Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Also read the article on Solar Radiant Floor Heating provided by the DOE