Radiant Floors: Beyond Comfort, Beyond Quiet

Earth Bound Homes project manager, Brett Morrow describes the process of installing radiant heating at the Cereza Passive House. Using a lightweight concrete-like material called gypcrete, which combines cement and gypsum and is also found in sheetrock, to overlay the pecks radiant twos that run throughout the house. In the basement, we use cork insulation to insulate the topping slab from the underlying structural concrete, even though the structural concrete is itself insulated. We do this to increase the response time of the slab and make it easier to change the temperature in the basement. The warm floors are important to the client. The silent warm heat will be a welcome departure from the normally lousy, loud forced air heating systems they have in their current home.