Radiant Floor Heating

Radiant Floor heating systems offer many benefits. Warm floors deliver the heat where you need it, reducing room stratification and heat loss through the ceiling. This reduces energy use and increases human comfort. Radiant floors are also the most natural fit with a solar thermal system, as they heat with relatively low temperature water and store the heat in the house’s floor – these two factors help optimize the solar system’s energy production and storage.

The interface with a radiant floor is simple to imagine: a loop carries water through the solar tank to gain heat and then into the radiant floor house zones. Proper interaction of pump, mixing valve (mixing cold water with the tank-heated water) and sensors make sure the water going into the floor is at the proper temperature. The boiler is also connected to this loop, and will activate automatically to complete the work of the solar system during the coldest weather.