NRT Rob in the news!

DanHolohan

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Good luck with the new home, Rob.

hot_rod

great!

be sure to keep us updated on the design and construction. Sounds like a project I need to visit and do a story on



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NRT_Rob

heh

Thanks Dan, are you a regular reader of the KJ??



we do plan to document the construction fully. I'm really looking forward to having our very own mad scientist laboratory to work from!! the base system will include slab, warmboard, and radiant ceiling elements and the plan at this time is to go for a cold climate air to water heat pump, radiant heating/cooling, with solar thermal and subslab air handler preheat. we still have some budget shifts occurring though so the final design is in limbo still, and the fact is whatever we do on year one will probably be completely revamped by year 3, and again by year 5, etc...



but the real beauty will be the flexible design. we'll be setting it up to be able to meter all energy inputs and outputs, and also to be able to reconfigure our loop lengths, at least, and in some cases on center as well.



Also we're designing the second floor so we can lay down any panel product we like right on top of the floor and do output testing for overfloor panel products... any suggestions for particularly good BTU meters will be heard with interest!!



The first thing we have to figure out is how much we really want to play... I can sink $1500 in pipe in the ground under the slab pretty easy if we want to be able to really experiment with on centers and such down there....

DanHolohan

Rob,

I read for a living and basically have no life. ;-)  Best of luck!