Radiant Heat Over View

The Comfort: Similar to the rays of the sun, radiant heat warms objects rather than air to create a more even heat throughout your home. Starting with the floor, objects are warmed giving your home a more inviting feeling as your furniture and other fixtures lose their chill. Now the common complaint of cold feet is cured by heating your floor and letting that heat naturally radiate throughout the room instead of collecting at the ceiling.

Custom Design : Radiant heat is ideal for bathrooms, kitchens, basements, bedrooms or a complete home. Unlike other forms of heat you can easily ‘zone’ individual areas. Each of these zones can be controlled by its own programmable thermostat. Now you can designate specific times of the day and desired temperatures for these areas making your home energy efficient without sacrificing comfort. Radiant heat can be used to add supplemental heat to a bathroom or throughout your home as a primary heating source.

Efficient: Radiant heat is the most efficient form of heat available. Significantly less operating time is required to maintain the desired warmth compared to furnaces and other methods of heating keeping operational costs to a minimum. High efficiency boilers or electric radiant floor systems makes radiant heat one of your most efficient ways to heat your home. Coupled with a well insulated home these systems can quickly warm your home and then shut down or wait idle for long periods of time before being called upon by the thermostat to operate.

Clean and Quiet Operation: Radiant heating systems inherently offer a superior living environment compared to conventional forced air. Since there are no furnaces or blowers, noise and dust are reduced to make your home cleaner and more peaceful.

Attractive Design: The concern for bulky duct work or the inconvenient placement of floor registers is eliminated with a radiant heating system. No longer do you have to worry about limited ceiling or wall space to accommodate a conventional heating system.

Air Exchanger Basics:
With the emphasis on energy conservation and efficiency, new home construction can create a problem of indoor air pollution. Vapor barriers, thermal windows, weather-stripping and caulk have reduced or stopped fresh air from infiltrating and replacing stale air. Entering and exiting the house through doors isn't’t always enough air changes. Cooking, aerosol sprays, cleaning agents, paints, and in some cases excess humidity if the house is sealed too tightly can create an undesirable environment. Keeping windows or doors open does not conserve energy. A device known as an air-to-air exchanger is used to recover heating or cooling and improve air quality. There are many different designs of air exchangers, depending on the manufacturer, but the principle is the same. Fresh air is drawn in from a port open to the outside of the building, and passed through a chamber, also know as the exchanger, that is surrounded by indoor air. Highly conductive metal or other materials removes the energy (heat) from the warmer air and gives it to the cooler air. The fresh air is then ducted into the house, and the indoor air is ducted to a port and expelled outside. Up to 80% of the energy can be exchanged. During the energy exchange, moisture (humidity) can condense into water. A drain pan inside the cabinet will allow the water to be collected for removal. If the unit is installed in the basement, a condensate pump might be used to eject the water outside

In 1987, Infiltrator Systems introduced an innovative new technology in septic leach fields, which is now the number one choice in the United States. Infiltrator ® chambers are hollow structures that attach end-to-end. They are installed in trenches or beds without gravel (except where local codes require the use of gravel). The entire bottom of the trench is open for unobstructed infiltration of water. The large storage volume within the hollow chambers accommodates peak flows of effluent from the home. Infiltrator chambers also feature patented sidewall louvers that allow lateral leaching of effluent into the soil.

Your leach field system is constructed with Infiltrator leaching chambers. These units, manufactured of Poly Tuff ™ , a proprietary blend of polyolefin plastic, interlock together to form a continuous drainage area. This state-of-the-art system offers many advantages over old-fashioned stone and pipe systems. The chambers treat more effluent, more efficiently, in a smaller area. They also have a much greater storage volume than a gravel-filled trench and offer a very large surface area for effluent infiltration into the soil. Large storage, volume, accommodates, peak flows

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