"Radiant" heat is as old as the sun. It can make your domestic hot water and burn the soles of your bare feet if you walk on hot asphalt. You boil a pot of water and the heat you feel coming from the metal walls of the pot or stand close to a camp fire or open hearth fireplace is radiant heat. Put some warm water through pipes in the slab floor of your new house. You won't burn your toes, but watch the gals slip off their shoes on a cold winter night! I will take you through the hands-on process of designing and building a hot water radiant floor heat system for that structure you want to build (or even retro-fit). I am not going to be influenced by whether you are a 40 -year career plumber, a brand new architect, a house designer or a plain old amateur home builder because all of you must learn how this wonderful form of heat works. I go into such detail that I guarantee you will be exposed to much more radiant heat information than you ever really wanted to know. By means of lots of photographs, drawings and a full size blue print of a typical installation and tricks of the trade, I will show you to do it. There are several ways to accomplish this task that will last forever. Certainly, you have heard of some poor installations-I'll tell you how to avoid them. In Section I have intentionally skipped around with several subjects. Section II deals more specifically with details of the craft. Tools you will need to buy or make and techniques such as silver brazing and copper softening will be described. Section III will take you through the installation of a hot water radiant floor heating system designed by the author for a building designed by architects Father Gabriel Chavez de la Mora, o.s.b. , Mexico and Mr. Jerry Brewer, architect, San Diego, California and built by the monks of the Prince of Peace Abby in Oceanside, California. Construction was started in 1980 and the church and associated rooms consisting of 25,000 square feet of floor space was dedicated in 1987. Construction of many other structures in the years since-all radiantly heated with hot water in the floors have been built. Visits to the Abby may be arranged by calling.
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81 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
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Deals mostly with copper,
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This review is from: Radiant Floor Heating with Hot Water (Plastic Comb)
This booklet only deals with copper tubing embedded in a concrete slab. The author only gives token mention to other tubing products such as PEX, rubber, etc. Also, there is almost no mention of using radiant floor heat under a wood framed floor. If you are planning a copper tube/under slab installation, this appears to be a good book. However, if you are planning to use PEX tubing, or install a system under a wood framed floor, skip it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Narrow focus, possibly misleading information.,
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This review is from: Radiant Floor Heating with Hot Water (Plastic Comb)
The book is a primitively produced 'text' on installing radiant floor heating in new constuction using copper tubing embedded in a concrete slab. The book features type-written, photocopied pages; amateur, hand-drawn illustrations; and home-made covers. The pages are bound using some type of do-it-yourself manual binding machine. My copy was missing page 36.The content is narrowly focused on copper embedded in concrete. The subjects of other materials, installations in existing structures, or installation in structures other those using concrete slabs are mentioned only in the most tangental manner. In addition, reports of copper catastrophically (at least financially) corroding away when embedded in concrete abound, although this reader has had no personal experiences with copper in concrete. But the author's actual experience with radiant floor heating seems so limited I find it hard to have any confidence in his recommendations.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is for readers who want to get the job done right.,
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This review is from: Radiant Floor Heating with Hot Water (Plastic Comb)
After yet another guest in our home expressed an interest in our radiant heating system with its draft free silent and comfortable ambient temperature, I again loaned our copy of John A. Wills' book "Radiant Floor Heating with Hot Water". The author takes the reader through a careful step by step process which, if followed as we did, will ensure successful installation of a working system. He also gives important background discussion of appropriate materials and essential practical construction techniques, as well as explanations of critical scientific principles that form the basis of the system. Drawings and photos of both residential and commercial examples showing construction sequences and layouts are extremely helpful. The reader will learn not only what to do, but why it should be done. Construction of our single story 3,500 square foot home with its copper imbedded concrete slab radiant heating system was completed in 1986. Since then, we have enjoyed economical, leak free operation of our twelve station system. Our copy of John A. Wills' book was one of the earliest, and is getting worn from being borrowed so many times. We are looking forward to the most recent edition, which will be available soon. A California owner-builder
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