Outdoor Radiant Floor Heating

Abe Stallcup, Monterey Energy Group

I recently have had a request by a client to design a hydronic floor heating system on a large house located on the coast of Northern California (Pebble Beach). For those of you have not experienced it, while being very scenic, the air coming off the Pacific can be downright bone chilling. The client has requested that the terrace and patios be heated for when they are entertaining. The terrace is covered, and has a three foot wall with arched openings. We usually steer people clear of heating the great outdoors with floor heating, instead pushing them toward the tried and true overhead heating lamps. Having said that, I wanted to hear of any experiences anyone might have had with this application of hydronics.

Abe

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Tried it once

for a restaurant setting. Not very quick responding when the system is mass intensive. They went back to the overhead radiant heaters.

Seems the only way would be to idle the area, but would use a lot of energy, wastefully

Build them some radiant tables and furniture!

There are some electric mats, used at ski lifts ramps, that might work for quick spot heating areas. Plug and play

hot rod

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jerry scharf

plug and play?

> Build them some radiant tables

> and furniture!


At least they couldn't say they were freezing their butts off.

>

> There are some electric mats,

> used at ski lifts ramps, that might work for

> quick spot heating areas. Plug and play


is that plug and play or plug and pay?

sorry, I couldn't resist.

jerry

Dan Peel

3 season

I did a lakeside patio (-15F design area). It responds reasonably well, but the area is also supported by an outdoor fireplace. I'd expect you'd still need a wind break and ceiling radiant to be very effective. Forget about efficiency ...Dan

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