Industry News — Radient Heat

  There’s more than one way to skin a cat. The same can be said for heating houses. In modern times, the most common way to heat a home is with a furnace. Some call it forced air. It is perhaps better described as scorched air. With a furnace, the heated air is blown through the house, raising the ambient temperature to one’s preferred set point. That’s not how radiant heat works. Radiant heat utilizes hot water, with a Triangle Tube boiler — not a furnace — as the heat source. Pex tubing is run throughout the flooring of the home, with...