[Strawbale] Fwd: Re: re. Re: PEX, Concrete Slab, Fear of Death (by contractor)(Speireag Alden) (Speireag Alden)

[MKL]

--- MKL <mkl18 at pobox.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:39:07 -0800 (PST)
> From: MKL <mkl18 at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: re. Re: PEX, Concrete Slab, Fear of
> Death (by contractor)(Speireag Alden) (Speireag
> Alden)
> To: strawbale at listserv.repp.org
> 
> Speireag said
> 
> Yup.  I'm putting on an addition (much more slowly
> than planned)  
> and an electric heater can be moved around with
> impunity to suit the  
> building situation.
> 
  forgive my density but are you saying the
> slab that uses hydronic heating is only heated as
> and when you are in the part of the house above the
> hydronically heated slab and you move the water
> heater (uncoupling the pex from the water heater ?)
> to …where? Not wishing to be seen as impertinent I
> do wonder if my question as to the amount of
> insulation you used under the hydronic heating slab
> was in some way inappropriate?  
> 
> 
> 
>      Eventually, most of our house heat will be
> solar and wood.  The  
> ratio will depend on how well the solar part works
> out.
> 
  The use therefore of the radiant slab is then
> "temporary" (and electric heated water running
> through the slab will eventually stop) until you
> have ascertained the comfort derived from passive
> solar and solar collectors and the need thereof? And
> once this is understood you will then supplement (if
> necessary) the passive solar collection with wood
> fuelled heat only? Or will the slab still receive
> passive solar heated water and bypass the electric
> heater?
> 
> Sounds like a good plan and of course in the event
> (god forbid) of immobilisation during a wood heat
> requiring period one could always substitute the
> electric/hydronic system for the wood stove or do
> you mean you will burn wood to produce the heated
> water for the hydronic system? Or both possibly?
> 
> 
> thanks
> MKL
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      
>
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