| Under-floor radiant heat is ideal for homeowners | | | | Under-floor radiant heat needs to heat the wood |
| that want to take advantage of the clean, even | | | | sub-floor and floor covering above so it can |
| heat of a radiant heat system, but without the | | | | radiate heat into your home. This makes it the |
| additional cost and labor of replacing your entire | | | | most unobtrusive radiant heat to install in an |
| floors. | | | | existing home. It will not add any additional floor |
| Under-floor radiant heat systems are installed | | | | height or disrupt your existing floor coverings. |
| underneath the current sub floor between the | | | | There are a few common under-floor installation |
| floor joists. This kind of installation is not as | | | | methods: staple-up with heat transfer plates, |
| responsive as the aluminum base method but is | | | | staple-up without heat transfer plates, and hanging |
| more responsive than the thermal mass method. | | | | tubing in the joist space. This is how they differ. |