Warm Floors On A Tight Budget

摘要

Our radiant-floor heating system is everything the heating contractor said it would be: quiet, efficient, and unobtrusive. The heat is even. There's no blower noise and no radiators to arrange furniture around. I like everything about it-except what it cost. The three-zone system, designed around a German-built Viessmann boiler, cost $29,000 when our 2100-sq.-ft. house was built three years ago, or roughly $14 per sq. ft. That's apparently not out of line with national averages for a system with similar components, but it's more than forced-air or conventional hydronic heat would have been.