How to Install Radiant Floor Heating – Victorian Kitchen Remodel in Rowley, MA – Bob Vila eps.3104

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• Very interesting, although the installer has probably voided the warrantee on the PEX tubing while he had it exposed to UV in the sunlight of the open door. PEX must be prevented from exposure to UV or it begins to breakdown and will severely reduce its life and cause leaks.

• Another interesting mistake, Bob discusses the type of floor but does not tell the viewer that natural wood floors over radiant heat tend to shrink and cup, especially if the boards are greater than 2 1/2 inches. To avoid problems what Bob should have told us is that one should either use an engineered floor with a built-in sub straight or a quarter cut natural product. Quarter cut just means the wood will expand up and down instead of sideways causing expansion problems from the heat.

• We have thousands of feet of PEX under thousand of board feet of various wood flooring including 4" plank Southern Yellow Pine, no cupping, cracking, splits, voids or sky falling.

  PEX must be exposed to direct sunlight for long periods of time...think weeks not a couple of days.

  The installation may be DIY friendly, but the design is not. A manual 'J' heat load must be performed before any heating project can proceed. The species & thickness of wood will dictate the design water temperature.

• I've never heard of a White Oak Tree Farm.  I would love to see that operation.

• i hope this guy punches ole bob right in the mouth...

• Do you put red rosin paper between the radiant track and the finish floor like you would in a non radiant floor installation?

• Looks like that floor needs improvement, no aluminum lining in the grove.

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