DMF
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="red">I read not to put near toilet, the heat will melt the wax donut</font>
Fernco now makes a rubber gasket that glues to the toilet bottom & is a snug fit into the toilet flange eliminating the wax ring. made specifically for heated floors. Found it at Home Depot with the wax rings. I'll never use a wax ring again. )</font>
While I might agree that the rubber gasket may be better than the wax ring, I really don't think the floor will melt it. I have radiant heat in every room except our carpetted bedrooms (3) and the loft. My basement has it as well. Our 2 bathrooms have wax rings with no problems. The floors in those bathrooms are tile. They are never "hot"; they just don't feel cold to the touch so they have to be around +/- body temperature. I'm thinking if you hold a wax ring in your hand it wouldn't melt so it probably isn't as much of an issue as some people might think... Just my $.02...
For the basement we used one sheet of mesh, 6 x 6 with the tubing tied to it. When the cement was poured, we "hooked" the mesh to pull it up into the cement. It works good! Counting our basement, we heat over 3700 square feet and we average a little under 100 gallons of oil/month. My wife keeps the house at 72 degrees all winter and the oil heats our water as well. Many new homes in our area use that much oil and heat a significant amout less of square footage...
Fernco now makes a rubber gasket that glues to the toilet bottom & is a snug fit into the toilet flange eliminating the wax ring. made specifically for heated floors. Found it at Home Depot with the wax rings. I'll never use a wax ring again. )</font>
While I might agree that the rubber gasket may be better than the wax ring, I really don't think the floor will melt it. I have radiant heat in every room except our carpetted bedrooms (3) and the loft. My basement has it as well. Our 2 bathrooms have wax rings with no problems. The floors in those bathrooms are tile. They are never "hot"; they just don't feel cold to the touch so they have to be around +/- body temperature. I'm thinking if you hold a wax ring in your hand it wouldn't melt so it probably isn't as much of an issue as some people might think... Just my $.02...
For the basement we used one sheet of mesh, 6 x 6 with the tubing tied to it. When the cement was poured, we "hooked" the mesh to pull it up into the cement. It works good! Counting our basement, we heat over 3700 square feet and we average a little under 100 gallons of oil/month. My wife keeps the house at 72 degrees all winter and the oil heats our water as well. Many new homes in our area use that much oil and heat a significant amout less of square footage...
