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veha panel radiators

J. Scott
J. Scott Member Posts: 3
in THE MAIN WALL
I am remodeling a second floor bedroom and considering instaling a veha flat panel radiator. The room is 12'x10' with two double pane windows and good insulation. My concern is the amount of btu's I will need. I would like to install a model that is 15" high by 24" long output is 3416 btu. I will probably install a thermo valve. I would appreciate any opinions on this.

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  • Mark A. Custis
    Mark A. Custis Member Posts: 247
    Need more input

    to be able to help. What works in Alabama may not be enough in Maine. Insulation in the walls and ceiling make a difference. You need to run a heat loss, and then compare it to the ability of the radiant panel at different water tempuratures.

    Mark

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  • Rene
    Rene Member Posts: 7
    BTU Calculator

    Hey J. Scott: Check out this webpage. http://hearth.com/calc/btucalc.html
    It is a BTU calculator. I' m sorry that I cannot help you more because in Germany we are calculating in a different way. Rene
  • J. Scott
    J. Scott Member Posts: 3
    veha panel radiator

    Some more info about my project, I live in Pennsylvania...gets pretty cold here. We have an 80 year old farm house which we are remodeling and insulating as we go. The attic will be insulated well and the 2x4 outside walls as much as we can. The house has no central heating system, we removed the old worn out coal steam heat furnace and are left using some back up electric baseboard and most of all our joutl propane stove supplies most of our heat for now. Within the next year we will be adding a oil boiler, under floor radiant in the large living rm which has hard wood and I would like to use panel radiators elsewhere.
    I currently have the walls open in two upstairs bedrooms therefore I would like to rough in the heating pipes now. I would like to use pex for the ease of pulling to the upstairs.
    I haven't chosen a heating cont. yet but I would like to get some ideas upfront. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
  • Steve Ebels
    Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
    Very roughly speaking

    If you have a tight well insulated room with average sized windows and 8 foot ceiling, figure 30 btu's per sq ft of floor space. If there are a lot of windows and/or marginal insulation figure 40. 9 times out of 10 you'll be safe with those numbers. If you want to know exactly you'll have to do a heat loss calculation for the room. Hope this helps.
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