As mentioned here before, the key issues are temperature swings and moisture content. We have many clients who have installed an electric radiant system (called Zmesh) under oak...
Replies 10Good point! You are right. The system is always on and maintains 80 degrees. It takes almost 4 hrs to heat up from cold. The italian stone cutter (yup, shipped in from italy) ...
Replies 8"Works in practice"?? Do you mean, does it actrually heat the tub? Silly wabbit! I should add that the element was then mortared over to act as a heat sink and something to keep...
Replies 8The coldness of the dry ice didn't cause a crack? Or was the bottom protected in some way.
Replies 8We've installed Zmesh directly on top of a plywood sub then put a cheap luon over the Zmesh then a yoga pad floor directly over that. It creates a nice warm floor in about a 1/2...
Replies 4First, let me say that we install both systems. So I'm not selling my product. The only reason i am particular to the low voltage is that it's easier to fix when someone else da...
Replies 9There re basically two types; line voltage cables and mats or low voltage cable. They both work effectively. The more popular known line voltage mats seem to last longer than t...
Replies 9Lmfao !!
Replies 24Have you turned the floor system on yet? Sounds like you may end up with some cold striping if you separated the wires too much. Did you take pictures?
Replies 13Depending on the open square footage and the heat load, you might be able to use low voltage as primary. Do the heat loss calc first and then come back.
Replies 9It's low voltage electric.
Replies 3It was difficlut to capture the 16 degree grade on this asphhalt driveway. We retro-fit a low voltage snow melting system in the summer of 2010. The 'after' picture is the morni...
Replies 3True Story: Thomas Edison was called in to troubleshoot an problem at a local power generating plant to come in and find the problem they were having with one of their generator...
Replies 42Electric baseboard's heat (convection) has always been known to be the worst for efficiency. If you use electric radiant in-floor (low voltage or line voltage), it can be even w...
Replies 14If you will be heating the floor in the shower as well, be sure to only use low voltage radiant. It can be cut in the field with a piece of cold led spliced in through the wall ...
Replies 30Bubble..what? Do you mean the worthless stuff advertised for under concrete pours? As I described....though 'air-tight' is unrealistic to obtain, the next layer down from ...
Replies 21Simply put, the reason the HLC is no longer needed is that as long as the Zmesh installation design is built the way I described earlier, it will warm the floor. Guaranteed. Sin...
Replies 21You're correct in that you are not allowed to cut the line voltage mats or cable elements but you can definitly cut the cold leads that run to the thermostat from the mat. Tha...
Replies 21We're going to get a bit technical here but, when using a "Floorizwarm" Tuff Cable low voltage kit that has a area coverage range, you can cut the element, use a 'cold lead' jum...
Replies 21Yes, you can cut low voltage if it is damaged or if you want to 'jump' to another surface. You must use the mfrs splice kit (which is nothing more than a butt splice, some solde...
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