Have you done radiant heat tubing under stone countertops?
My plumbing and heating pro showed me an article in one of his trade mags, detailing out how it is done.
We will be heating with under-floor tubing in this next job, and the kitchen has two runs of stone tops on exterior walls, one with a window run above.
I’ve got the same in my house, and I can tell you, those counters get pretty cool, especially near the windows, when it drops down low outside.
When you think about it, it makes sense. You have a warm radiator floor, but you completely lose it when you build base cabs above, for that 22 inches of perimeter.
I want to look into it.
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By the time you get the tubing set, won't that make for a very thick countertop?
I ran hose around the tub (under the deck) and up under the entry side of the tile deck. Makes for no shock to the fanny and keeps the water warmer longer in the winter.
Keep the tubing away from the counters or area around the refrig, sounds good in the area around the stove. Serving area? don't want the ice cream to melt.
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Never heated a countertop, but like Calvin, I've run tubing around a bath surround.
I have done the opposite...run a copper cooling coil under/in a countertop. That was to keep it cool for working pastry, dough, baking, etc...
>> Never heated a countertop, but like Calvin, I've run tubing around a bath surround.
>> I have done the opposite...run a copper cooling coil under/in a countertop.If you use Peltier junction devices you can do both. A Peltier junction is a semiconductor device that creates a temperature gradient when you run DC current through it. It gets warm on one side and cool on the other. That's tricky enough, but the really tricky part is that if you reverse the current, the direction of the temperature gradient also reverses.I've been thinking about building a tiny refrigerator so I can keep my insulin on my desk instead of in the kitchen.http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22peltier+junction%22
Haven't seen those in years. Thanks for the link.
Rather than running water-filled tubing into the cabinetry, you might look into the electrically-heated mats sold for spot warming of bathroom tile floors. It might be easier to install, you could put it only in front of your windows, and you could switch it on and off seperately from the general room heating.
Edited 2/23/2005 11:09 am ET by JAMIE_BUXTON