Taylortractornut
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We are about to remodel the house like a a cabing on the inside to facilitate some of ur inherited antiques. As a surprise to my wife for letting me fix the living room like an old barn I want to put in a radiant floor heating system in the bedroom. We have an old house built in Holcut MS when the Tenn Tomm came through and ate Holcut this old house was moved to this location having hit every culvert on the route. Later it partially burnt and Mom and dad redid it with a lower addition for extra rooms. Our room is a 2 feet lower than the main area of the house so the old Ashley heater heates every thing but the 2 bedrooms on the addition. Mom and dad ran Propane heaters there but I hate spending money wasting gas.
The thread on here about the furnace with a domestic heating coil in it has me thinking. I have been reading about these add on coils for wood stoves. I ve laid the pex lines in concrete shop floors before on construction jobs but never in a house especially a frame house like this one. I asked a local heating contractor and he wanted to install an new central unit. Ours hasnt worked in the last several years and I wanted the floor heat.
What I was thinking about doing was pulling up the carpet and puting down 1 by 4 boards to make channels for the PEX. Then after I get my Pex down screw some 3/8ths or 1/2 inch plywood on the 1by4 boards and then install new carpet on top of that. I d have to get a custom door fitted as the floor would be 2 inches higher than it is now. I have a friend that did something like this in his otherhouse and made his top layer in paneled sections with carpet that could but unscrewed and removed for mainenance.
The thread on here about the furnace with a domestic heating coil in it has me thinking. I have been reading about these add on coils for wood stoves. I ve laid the pex lines in concrete shop floors before on construction jobs but never in a house especially a frame house like this one. I asked a local heating contractor and he wanted to install an new central unit. Ours hasnt worked in the last several years and I wanted the floor heat.
What I was thinking about doing was pulling up the carpet and puting down 1 by 4 boards to make channels for the PEX. Then after I get my Pex down screw some 3/8ths or 1/2 inch plywood on the 1by4 boards and then install new carpet on top of that. I d have to get a custom door fitted as the floor would be 2 inches higher than it is now. I have a friend that did something like this in his otherhouse and made his top layer in paneled sections with carpet that could but unscrewed and removed for mainenance.