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Your spouse got up in the dead of the night and like a shot those cold toes are attacking your territory with the persistency of a heat-seeking projectile. Fortuitous for you, the new house will have radiant floor heat – a dependable curative for confrontations with icy toes at 2 in the morning or a midwinter chill that reaches your bone marrow.

Under-floor heating has been used since the Roman Empire when it was in its prime in communal buildings and the villas of the rich. Hot air was distributed beneath tile or brick, providing a radiant warmth – energy that transmitted heat through the flooring and along to colder furniture like Roman reclining chairs, statues, marble-topped tables and frosty centurions.

With the advent of elastic PEX pipe to the United States in the 1980s, application has rocketed as new products have been introduced for the construction industry – among which have been hydronic arrangements to supply radiant floor heating. Unlike forced-air furnaces, modern water floor schemes utilising PEX plumbing products provide more uniform heat to a room, are less drying, more efficient and a whole lot quieter than older furnaces or metal steam pipes.

PEX tubing is constructed of cross-linked polyethylene, which generates these high tech tubes durability, chemical resistance, superior mobility, a cost-effective installation profile and better temperature range. This polyethylene tubing can be used with water as hot as 200° Fahrenheit in heating schemes.

There are various ways of putting in radiant floor heating. Many use electrical line voltage systems, but easy-to-use PEX tubing products have made hydronic under-floor heating popular with both house builders and home owners. Because the hosing is so elastic, its rolls can be utilized in a straight distance, eradicating the requirement for multiple junctions and fittings.

Many radiant floor heating schemes use oxygen-barrier PEX radiant tubing applied in gypsum concrete. Others contain low-mass underlay – wood boards with sunken niches for flexible tubing.

Each reconstruction or new-construction plan is best accommodated by one method or another, so look into your hydronic floor heat alternatives fully. Do your due dilligence!