Radiant floor heat in a small cottage

Gust peterson

I live in northern California, San Francisco area and we have a small cottage on my property. We recently hired a flooring contractor to install pergo floating floors. When he tore the existing carpet off we found that the concrete slab foundation was inproperly constructed and needed to be torn out and replaced. We have contacted a house mover to move the house off the foundation while a sutable new foundation is being constructed. We were also hoping to include hydronic floor heat in the new foundation, being as the house has no heat source right now. This cottage is very small and only has a limited amount of space for mechanical equipment. My question is would be feasible economical to use hydronic heat in such a small space? and do they make compact boilers indirect hot water tanks to fit in a small space/ closet? Just to give you an idea of how big the closet is, it can fit a small forced air furnace. and hot water tank.

Ted_5

Look into Viessmann

The Viessmann Vitodens is the perfect boiler for that. The WB2 6-24C has a built in heat exchanger for potable hot water. If you have under a 3 gpm demand, no need for a tank. www.viessmann.com

Ted

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You will want to

do a heatloss calc and design. Only then will you know how do-able it would be Radiant floor heat would be an ideal match if designed and controlled correctly.

Find a contractor locally that know you climate and needs. There are some good ones in your area. Check the find a pro button here. Happy heating.

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Unknown

How small is the cottage?

Heat load calcs first; everything else follows.

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DaveGateway

Plenty of wall hung

boilers that would allow a small indirect tank mounted on the floor below. As stated, there are also some combo units, both tank and tankless that might fit your heat load/hot water needs. If oil is the only solution, a small boiler on a stand would fit over a 30 gal low-boy indirect tank. First get the heat loss calc done and your hot water needs calculated.

Gust peterson

Condensing boilers