rox
Veteran Member
Too bad you wife had that one bad experience. We had our family room, kitchen and dinette with infloor, well I guess it is under the floor heating and just loved it. You can put your furniture wherever you want and not have any radiators to deal with. We had beautiful tile floors that were nice and warm, but not hot. What a shame that one bad experience has ruined it for her, well you will be nice and toasty warm in the garage. We ahve radiators here and they are similar to the ones Bill Blarus mentioned in his post.
Buderus Panel Radiators Your wife may be concerned that perhaps they don't look big enough to heat a room, trust me they are. But nwo with all the olive wood and our great fireplace we have not turned on the heating system in 3 years. We only used it the first year actually. But if it gets really really really cold for a spell here we might turn it on again. The bad thing about any type of radiators, baseboard or these european style is it limits furniture placement. Show your wife on the plans where the baseboard radiators will go and she will see how it limits furniture placement. You cna't put any type of bookcase of hutch in front of them, even the baseboard ones becuase your bookcase then sticks out 4" from the wall. On the European styles ours are designed so that they go up and down. They are like 6 feet tall. So you can get styles that at least don't have to take so much horizontal wall space, you get a narrower one and use the up and down verticle wall space instead. That design is much better for furniture placement.
Buderus Panel Radiators Your wife may be concerned that perhaps they don't look big enough to heat a room, trust me they are. But nwo with all the olive wood and our great fireplace we have not turned on the heating system in 3 years. We only used it the first year actually. But if it gets really really really cold for a spell here we might turn it on again. The bad thing about any type of radiators, baseboard or these european style is it limits furniture placement. Show your wife on the plans where the baseboard radiators will go and she will see how it limits furniture placement. You cna't put any type of bookcase of hutch in front of them, even the baseboard ones becuase your bookcase then sticks out 4" from the wall. On the European styles ours are designed so that they go up and down. They are like 6 feet tall. So you can get styles that at least don't have to take so much horizontal wall space, you get a narrower one and use the up and down verticle wall space instead. That design is much better for furniture placement.
