snowmelting a wood deck

Dave Jahnke

We are trying to put together a plan for a customer of ours to do some snowmelt on a wooden deck. So far we are just in the brainstorming stage and I was hoping to get some advice. Any sugestions or ideas? Any experience would be helpful.

Dave Jahnke

snowmelting a wood deck

We are trying to put together a plan for a customer of ours to do some snowmelt on a wooden deck. So far we are just in the brainstorming stage and I was hoping to get some advice. Any sugestions or ideas? Any experience would be helpful.

Dave Palmer_3

big old webster grill?

stapile up with foil bubble wrap?

pat_5

How about

Heat transfer plates? Thermo-Fin C from Radiant Engineering screwed underneath deck. Might work real well if you have acess and deck is not that thick.

Steve Eayrs

Ran into this once......

They had a hot tub, at a motel, out on a wood deck, and wanted us to snow melt, and did not want any streaking, etc... We proposed tubing on top the existing deck and a 2" concrete slab, or better yet, tear the thing apart and just pour a slab on grade. Not enough room to get under the deck. The structural was enough to carry the weight, and they liked the idea of less step up to the tub.
Don't think staple up would have worked in this instance, and don't know what they ended up doing, since never heard back from them, after giving a price.

Steve

ALH_3

Thermofin

Maybe use Thermofin-U run along each of the decking boards. Cut a 3/4x3/4 inch rabbit in the bottom of another decking board and sandwich the thermofin between the two. I'd use 1/2" copper pipe in the thermofin because of the sunlight exposure. Just screwing Thermofin-C under the deck would lose too much heat downward. I can't think of a good way to insulate underneath and maintain good drainage. At least the Thermofin sandwich would send as much upward as downward. Something tells me this is going to use a lot of fuel.

Weezbo

designe...

i drew up a set of blue prints for a buddy of mine before he went back to ireland... that deck was solid concrete on a metal corragrated pan..that would be do able. wood? maybe a quin and hand the shovel to a boyscout would be a better deal.

Dave Jahnke

The hotel

> We are trying to put together a plan for a

> customer of ours to do some snowmelt on a wooden

> deck. So far we are just in the brainstorming

> stage and I was hoping to get some advice. Any

> sugestions or ideas? Any experience would be

> helpful.

Dave Jahnke

The boy scout seems to be the better idea out of the two.

> We are trying to put together a plan for a

> customer of ours to do some snowmelt on a wooden

> deck. So far we are just in the brainstorming

> stage and I was hoping to get some advice. Any

> sugestions or ideas? Any experience would be

> helpful.