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R-value of air space. - Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes
Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes
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This has probably been discussed before, but I can't remember the outcome.
One of our contractors is building a room that will be a dance floor; it has to be springy like some basketball courts I've seen. The floor construction will be: concrete slab-flat 2x4 sleepers-hardwood. This means that there will be 1-1/2" of air between the hardwood and the concrete.
I need an R-value for that space so I can plug it into my heat calc's. Any ideas.
Alan
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One of our contractors is building a room that will be a dance floor; it has to be springy like some basketball courts I've seen. The floor construction will be: concrete slab-flat 2x4 sleepers-hardwood. This means that there will be 1-1/2" of air between the hardwood and the concrete.
I need an R-value for that space so I can plug it into my heat calc's. Any ideas.
Alan
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Hard to find and inexact
r-value of 1/2" - 4" of air: APPROX 1.0
BUT, I don't believe this is "all of the story." You also need to add "air film" resistance values for both the top of the subfloor and underneath of the finish floor. Approx r .6 each? Total now about r-2.2. Since 1 1/2" softwood has 1.88 you should be safe using the r 2.2 number.
http://coloradoenergy.org/procorner/stuff/r-values.htm0 -
r value for air space
straight out of ASHRAE..let me know if you can read off the 1.5" column....if not, i'll e mail you a .pdf...i'd say it's approx 0.80
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