Installing pex hydronic radaint heat
Last Post 17 Nov 2012 11:01 PM by BadgerBoilerMN. 4 Replies.
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11 Nov 2012 01:09 PM

Im installing 1/2" pex for radaint heat under my floor . This is new construction so floor joises are open. the floor joises are TGI . I have 2 floors 1600 sq. ft. a floor with 9 cielings on 1st floor and 8 ft. cielings on 2nd. My question is should i hang the pex 3 inches or so off the bottom of the floor with hangers or use the alum. heat shealds to strap it directley to  the bottom of the floor? pro's and con's? I plan to use the double bubble foil insulation, should it be installed as close to the pex as possible or at the bottom of the joise creating a cavity?  I currentley have 1500 ft of radaint pex installed in the basement floor under concreat.   Hot water Heat supplied by a 250,000 btu outside central boiler corn/pellet stove.

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11 Nov 2012 01:37 PM
Staple up with heat transfer plates making direct contact with underside of your sub floor 8" pattern 1/2 pex. Alternately you can install on top of your sub floor with RHT floor panel system or similar sandwich system.
Hanging pipe3 inches off sub floor in joist bay is a bad choice.
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12 Nov 2012 10:49 AM
Skip the bubble insulation as well. use real insulation.
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14 Nov 2012 05:37 PM
What they said. With suspended tube you'd have to run much hotter water (== higher distribution losses from your thermal store) and without better insulation you'd have next to no zone isolation between the basement (which is usually relatively low-loss) and the first floor (which has higher losses.)

Cheap R11 or R13 sound abatement batts snugged right up to the PEX/plates are usually sufficient for isolating zones, but if you want to run the basement 10F cooler than the first floor R19s are better.
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17 Nov 2012 11:01 PM
3 inches? You have to admit, that is a new one. Where do they come up with this fiction. And, I thought everyone knew that bubble foil is a hoax.

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