pat32rf
Veteran Member
When you pour the slab, make sure that you put foam frost walls around the perimeter to keep the ground below the slab warmer. This can make a large difference in your slab temp no matter how you heat it. A few simple things that often are forgotten in the shuffle...
Ground temp below the frost line stays fairly constant year round.
Heat rises, BUT it conducts and radiates in ALL directions.
We have two adjacent houses. One is geothermal with a lake loop, the other just got an old outdoor wood boiler. It will have a cool water feed run from the lake next summer (its about 55 degrees year round) for AC and we will be running a heating loop from the OWB to the geo house as well to save hydro...
Ground temp below the frost line stays fairly constant year round.
Heat rises, BUT it conducts and radiates in ALL directions.
We have two adjacent houses. One is geothermal with a lake loop, the other just got an old outdoor wood boiler. It will have a cool water feed run from the lake next summer (its about 55 degrees year round) for AC and we will be running a heating loop from the OWB to the geo house as well to save hydro...
