Optimizing New Home Construction: Integrating A Radiant Floor Heating Rough-In for Added Value With Little Expense
When building your new home, consider the significant benefits of roughing in radiant floor heating (RFH) into your new slab. This cost-effective upgrade not only elevates your home’s value but also offers unparalleled comfort and efficiency down the road. This post will guide you through the simple yet impactful process of enhancing your under-slab insulation […]
Do You Need A Blower Fan For Your Home’s Radon Diffusion System?
Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, poses a significant health risk in homes, especially when it seeps through foundations. Addressing this challenge, under-slab radon diffusion systems play a critical role in ensuring home safety. Central to these systems is the blower fan, a component often questioned for its necessity. Here, we explain why a blower […]
Navigating Flooring Choices for Heated Concrete Floors: Practical Insights for the Construction Industry
Heated concrete floors, or radiant floor heating systems, are gaining ground in both residential and commercial settings for their comfort and energy efficiency. But how do you maximize their effectiveness? One answer lies in your flooring choice. In today’s article, we’ll cut through the noise and lay out the best and worst flooring options for […]
Heat-Sheet Heavy – The Lab-Tested Solution For Superior Under-Slab Radon Diffusion
Builders are increasingly understanding the dangers associated with radon. The toxic gas is the #1 cause of lung cancer in non-smokers; it’s invisible; it’s odorless; and it’s surprisingly good at infiltrating homes. And yet, the industry continues to rely on relatively rudimentary methods, such as a 4-inch gravel layer and a PVC pipe, to diffuse […]
Is Heat-Sheet a Radon Barrier?
Heat-Sheet functions perfectly well as under-slab insulation and can even serve as the vapor barrier, but it is not an adequate Radon barrier.
How Heat-Sheet Helps You Meet R-Value Requirements For Heated Slab Applications
Regardless of your locale’s code standards, Heat-Sheet’s line of radiant floor panels offer a massive assortment of R-Values, compressive strengths, nodule sizes, and profiles for under-slab applications.
Installing Hydronic Radiant Floor Heating in a 1,500ft² Basement
Discover the 2 typical stages and essential factors that need to be considered when retrofitting your basement with Radiant Floor Heating. Read the full post to learn more!
How Does Hydronic Radiant Floor Heating Work?
Discover the basics of hydronic radiant floor heating and see why it’s still the most efficient way of heating your home or building. Installing it can be quick and straightforward with these few Heat-Sheet tips.
A Quick Planning Guide for Your Hydronic Radiant Floor Heating System
Heat-Sheet is tailor-made to make PEX tubing installation fast, simple, and back-pain-free! Read more to learn more about the install process, and remember — it’s always best to leave system sizing and installation to the pros.
Does the Location of Heating Tubes Contribute to Heat Loss?
Radiant Heat Flooring (RHF) panel systems such as Heat-Sheet save up to 4 times in pipe installation labor. That’s how much faster it is to walk the tubing into place without bending down to staple it. However, using these panels means placing the tubing at the slab’s bottom rather than the middle. Heating Tubing At […]
