Re-evaluating Standard Practices For Hydronic Piping
Radiant floor heating is all the rage. But what about new ways to install more traditional hydronic systems?
Some of the advances in technology that have made radiant floors cutting edge are also making traditional installations of baseboard convection heaters and radiators easier, faster, more cost-effective, and more reliable. To take advantage of the newer technology, though, contractors need to re-examine how they have traditionally installed traditional hydronics.
Clarence Cleer, Highlander Energy Products Inc., in Kane, Pa., is one contractor who is well aware of the changes occurring in the hydronic heating industry. Highlander performs a lot of retrofit and custom work in and around Erie, Pa. According to Cleer, creating effective zones is the keystone to integrating the old with the new.