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12-26-2012, 10:14 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
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Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
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12-26-2012, 11:28 AM
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Bus Nut
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
With the skoolie group these's always interest...... Like MAN I gotta see this......
6 inches sounds good but I would do some research online to see what's the recommended spacing floor radiant floor heat..
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12-26-2012, 12:31 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
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12-27-2012, 09:10 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Central Tennessee
Posts: 1,093
Year: 1973
Coachwork: Blue Bird
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
Radiant floor heating is an awesome idea. It works well. Have you considered electrical elements? I was wanting to do that in my bus, but could not afford it.
Many years ago I would visit my aunt and uncle. They had "electric floors". It was great to run around in their house barefooted in the winter.
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12-27-2012, 11:04 AM
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Moderator
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
Don't you need some kind of thermal mass to absorb the heat?
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12-27-2012, 11:34 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: So Cal
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Year: 1935
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
I don't think electric floors would be very cost effective. My home (a late 1940's all elect) came with 440 V floor heaters. When we could no longer stand the elect. bill (440 is cheaper than 110 V), one months elect bill paid for converting the heat to forced air gas! Jack
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12-27-2012, 02:59 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2012
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
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12-27-2012, 10:12 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Andrews,Indiana
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Year: 1991
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
I'm installing radiant heat, using a diesel fired boiler, with a heat exchanger to pick up heat from engine when running. Right now I'm working on getting the boiler installed. Plans are for 4 zones using a pump for each zone that runs from a thermostat. I'll also be getting domestic hot water from the system.
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12-28-2012, 05:07 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Central Tennessee
Posts: 1,093
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
Shawn, the "raised panels" are walnut cabinet doors. I scored them for free. They came out of a tour bus. There is a lot of wood in my bus. I wish I had used it on the ceiling. There are some members here who have done that.
Dick, I would like to see a pic of the diesel fired boiler. I understand that while the engine is running, you could capture the heat. Would the boiler also work when the bus is parked?
I sure wish my noisy diesel motor was in the rear of my bus. Driving this thing is like flying a Piper Cub airplane.
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12-28-2012, 07:09 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Andrews,Indiana
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Year: 1991
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Engine: 3116 Cat 250hp
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
I'll post some pics as soon s I get the boiler installed, hopefully in the next week.
Dick
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12-28-2012, 06:30 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
Go to expeditionportal.com
Search for radiant floor,several awesome builds using copper tubing,routed into floor substrate...very cool info
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12-29-2012, 07:22 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
here is one I was talking about Shawn
http://www.xor.org.uk/unimog/mymog/heating.htm
There are a few others,search in general expo campers etc and the various fuso and Mog builds catogories.....now dont sell the bus and change build platforms after reading there
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12-29-2012, 08:58 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Roswell, NM
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
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Originally Posted by bansil
Go to expeditionportal.com
Search for radiant floor,several awesome builds using copper tubing,routed into floor substrate...very cool info
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You might want to use PEX rather than copper. Upside about PEX (other than the abilty ti withstand movement better than copper) is that it's not fond of making tight bends. Which goes well with the turn radius required in radiant floor heating. It's pretty close.
Radiantec has some of the best installation instructions I've seen on their web page under "Do It Yourself".
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12-29-2012, 11:09 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
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12-30-2012, 10:18 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
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Re: Radiant Floor Heating......feedback requested
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