According to a recent industry report, radiant heating sales in 2019 were led by both electric floor heating mats and heating cables.

An installer was asked to include an air-to-water heat pump into a low-temperature radiant panel heating system supplied by a mod/con boiler.

When John Kopf eventually gets around to designing and building his own house, he will go with hydronic heat instead of a more traditional forced air system. Kopf knows a thing or two about heating, having spent more than 20 years in the industry. He currently serves as boiler product manager for Navien.

This control can be partnered with various home automation systems like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant to energize the snow melting system based on weather information.

After being contacted by the general contractor, we met on site to go over the possibility of installing a snowmelt system for the more than 2,000-square-feet of sidewalks, which also included two ADA-sloped approaches to the grand entrance, a wide sweeping brick stairway and the landing pads outside the grand entrance.

The WarmlyYours report indicates continued e-tailer sales growth well into 2019.

Can you spot several details that will lead to problems? How would you design the system differently?

A growing skills gap prompts radiant hydronic manufacturers to redesign their wares.

The state-of-the-art Interactive Learning Center features 16 vignettes of Viega solutions.

When most of us think about hydronic radiant systems, usually heated floor and radiators and radiators spring to mind.