Infloor radiant vs HW baseboard
looking for pros and cons of infloor hot water radiant heat vs hot water baseboard heat system in new construction house, 2000 s.f. on two levels, located in Summit County Colorado 10,000 feet, using all the availble passive solar we can.
Cost comparisons?
Concerned about heat time lag with passive solar heating concrete floor used as thermal mass directly behind south windows. Is the infloor going to be slow and inconsistant to heat the house after sun and thermal mass heat source used up?
Any other thoughts?
This is my first post and have tried to do searches on numerus topics and do not find it very easy to find info. With the search results I have to open almost each one to see what the exact subject is becuase all I see is the first sentence of post and not topic subject. Any ideas for better results?
Thanks in advance
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Welcome to BT
You were concerned about radiant in slab being inconsistent after the solar gets used up.
I'm guessing that you will have a boiler of some sort to compensate for the solar.
If that's the case there should be no hot spots in the system, come to think of it there should be no hotspots regardless of what source you have.
In-slab radiant has a very even temp across it's mass.
It is slower than baseboard ( more mass to heat)
But it retains heat longer than baseboard.
Personally I prefer in-slab verses baseboard---- I don't like the limitations there are on baseboard design.