My experiance with Radiant heat is that it is in the Floors (Warmer air rises as cooler air falls). Never heard of it being in the ceiling. Don't you have a thermostat you can turn it down with? Thats how I maintain it in my house. Too bad there is no basement. Thats where mine goes in the Summer when we're not home with the AC on.
My experiance with Radiant heat is that it is in the Floors (Warmer air rises as cooler air falls). Never heard of it being in the ceiling. Don't you have a thermostat you can turn it down with? Thats how I maintain it in my house. Too bad there is no basement. Thats where mine goes in the Summer when we're not home with the AC on.
Thermostat is in every room, crazy but put it on 50 degrees, feels like 70...we keep it around 60 all last winter, but didn't have cigs then....now I don't know what to do?
My experiance with Radiant heat is that it is in the Floors (Warmer air rises as cooler air falls). Never heard of it being in the ceiling. Don't you have a thermostat you can turn it down with? Thats how I maintain it in my house. Too bad there is no basement. Thats where mine goes in the Summer when we're not home with the AC on.
Thermostat is in every room, crazy but put it on 50 degrees, feels like 70...we keep it around 60 all last winter, but didn't have cigs then....now I don't know what to do?
Wow. Thats wierd. If you can't control the temps w/thermostats I don't know what to tell you. Do you have a garage like Laker suggested?
What kind of heat is it? I've never heard of ceiling radiant heat that runs on electric fans. The fan part is confusing because I don't see how that could do anything to radiant heat which is hot water piped through conduit. If your heat is electric try turning one room way down. If it's hot water conduit radiant heat try finding the end of the loop before it returns to the boiler and that should be the coolest section.
What kind of heat is it? I've never heard of ceiling radiant heat that runs on electric fans. The fan part is confusing because I don't see how that could do anything to radiant heat which is hot water piped through conduit. If your heat is electric try turning one room way down. If it's hot water conduit radiant heat try finding the end of the loop before it returns to the boiler and that should be the coolest section.
The heat is a wire mesh that is rolled over the ceiling. Each room has its own thermostat for that reason. So u turn the thermostat on in each room and the wire mesh heats up, being in the cieling you have to turn the cieling fans on to force the heat to the floor, wierd I know. Don't perfer this type of heat but it came with the house. It has nothing to do with the water heater, just each room has its own sectioned off roll of mesh. I'm suprised no one has heard of this type of heat.
I have heard of it but my experience with the wire mess stuff is it is normally under the tile floor. I assume that this is similar only in (or just on?) the ceiling. I don' t know if there is anything that could be done but I would try not turning it on in one room and see how much cooler that room is from the rest of the house. If it is too cold maybe turning it on but not turning on the ceiling fan in that room would help?
What kind of heat is it? I've never heard of ceiling radiant heat that runs on electric fans. The fan part is confusing because I don't see how that could do anything to radiant heat which is hot water piped through conduit. If your heat is electric try turning one room way down. If it's hot water conduit radiant heat try finding the end of the loop before it returns to the boiler and that should be the coolest section.
The heat is a wire mesh that is rolled over the ceiling. Each room has its own thermostat for that reason. So u turn the thermostat on in each room and the wire mesh heats up, being in the cieling you have to turn the cieling fans on to force the heat to the floor, wierd I know. Don't perfer this type of heat but it came with the house. It has nothing to do with the water heater, just each room has its own sectioned off roll of mesh. I'm suprised no one has heard of this type of heat.
Yes. I have this in my Bathrooms (Under the tile floors). Its called "NuHeat" But again, I just adjust the thermostats to the desired ROOM Temp. My thermostats will register either the FLOOR temp *where the radiant heat is. There is a sensor on the floor.) or the room temp (ambient temp of the room). Maybe this is where you are having problems with controlling it. Check out the setup on your thermostats.
Another key point is that, like with all zone radiant heat systems, it relies upon heating the mass, which then heats the room, which is a SLOW process typically....in other words it takes hours or even days for the ambient air temperature to reflect what the thermostat is asking for because the mass of plaster, concrete or whatever it is embedded in needs to heat 1st, then re-radiate...typically one cannot turn it up when you come home from work and expect the house to heat up in a few minutes, not going to happen like it does with a forced air furnace.....I would suggest that you just set the thermostat at the desired temperature and leave it for a few days...not fiddling and see how it works....then adjust it slightly up or down to suit....basically a set it and leave it philosophy is required....hope it works out for you.
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