I am finally going to tear up the carpet in my room and lay some hardwoods. I am thinking of installing some radiant heating as well. My room is located over a garage and the floor is insulated but I worry that it will be too cold in the winter.
1. Any recommendations for a radiant flooring product?
2. If I install the radiant heating above the subfloor does this rule out nail down hardwoods? (bring on the jokes)
3. I do have the option of tearing down the sheetrock garage ceiling below my floor to install underneath the subfloor but this is a lot of extra work. However it would allow me to have much less of a floor height change from the bedroom to hallway. Any thoughts?
Thanks for any feedback
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you can do Quicktrack and then do an engineered hardwood glue down like Mannington
or nail your hardwood floor down and THEN take down the garage ceiling and install a staple-up tubing system below
Use the Quicktrac system, put your rosin paper down and trace the tubing with spray paint and just don't nail the spray paint.
What kind of heating are you planing on using. Electric or hedonic?
Hedonic??Is that what they use down in Jamaica at those adult resorts?? Sounds like fun but I don't think his wife will go for it:)
That's what I get for looking at BT at work. Typing and talking on the phone and looking at files at the same time does not work. Lets try this again. Electric or hydronic?
I really havent decided between electric and hydronic. This has been the first step in my reseacrh of the product. What are the pros and cons for each?
Well have you got a source of hot water? I'd think that would be the deciding factor. I've used the Suntouch electric radiant heat under tile bathroom floors two times with good results. http://www.suntouch.com/ I just ordered it online, with the programmable thermostat. http://www.warmyourfloor.com/This last time used it I put reflective bubble wrap style insulation under the subfloor since it was exposed to outdoor air. Personally I'm terribly allergic to any solvent based glue so I would only use the kind of floor that uses an ordinary white glue.According to the website you can pour a 1/2" thick self-leveling mortar base over the wire mats and put down engineered flooring.You can also use nailed down flooring and put the heating elements under the subfloor from the other side.