HYDRONIC RADIANT HEATING | Complete Home Comfort Radiant heat is the most comfortable and efficient form of home heating. Radiant floor heating systems conduct heat through the floor which then broadcasts heat to every cold object in the room, especially to you. It's an unparalleled sense of comfort, and the fuel efficiencies can be tremendous. Moreover, there are no vents in the way of your furniture plan, and no forced air to stir up dust or make noise. Radiant hydronic heating systems are clean, quiet, and decorators love them. With no vents or baseboards present furniture can be placed anywhere. Any type of floor covering can be installed over these systems. There simply is no match for radiant floor heating. Radiant floor heating is a superior method of heating your home. When you look at a floor warmed by radiant heating with an infrared camera, you see how energy is broadcast from the floor. People and all the objects in the room are bathed in radiant comfort.   Radiant heat is the same form of energy as light. Radiant heating gently and quietly "illuminates" your living space with warmth. The floor becomes the warmest surface in the room, not the coldest. And valuable energy isn't lost at the ceiling, because radiant rooms don't "stack" hot air like forced systems.   In your home, hydronic or electric radiant heat systems are embedded in your floor and the energy is broadcast to all parts of your room. Your floor will be the warmest surface and the ceiling will be the coolest. Your thermostat will be set lower, yet your comfort level is higher. Heat loss through infiltration and windows is reduced saving radiant system owners money.   People find a radiant atmosphere stimulating, quieter, cleaner and easier to breath.   ASP radiant heat systems warm homes, businesses, warehouses, garages, and even airplane hangars.     What makes ASP's Radiant Infloor Heating installations so comfortable   Answer Unlike traditional heating systems that just warm the air, radiant heating warms the floor and the objects in contact with the floor. The entire floor distributes a consistent, even and quiet heating. There are no drafts and radiant floor heating takes the chill out of cold tile, marble and wood floors.   What is Radiant Energy?   "Hot air" rises but "heat" can travel in many directions. That is why you can feel the heat of the coffee cup when you place your hand to the side of it. Radiant energy transfer is caused by a warm surface giving up its heat to a cooler surface.   Consider how the sun (10,000° F) heats the earth (61° F ). The sun radiates its energy towards the earth. The radiant energy is absorbed by the earth and is released as heat.   A radiant floor heating system simply radiates heat upward from the floor to provide optimum comfort and many other benefits.    Heat Transfer All forms of heating work on three basic modes of heat transfer: Convection, Conduction, Radiant.   Convection Heat Transfer is the most familiar type of heat. All forced-air systems are convective heat transfer systems. This includes hydronic baseboards and fan coils.   Conductive Heat Transfer is energy moving through an object. Place a metal pot on the stove and in a few minutes the handle is hot.   Radiant Heat Transfer is the exchange of energy from a hot source to a cold source. The sun is typically used to illustrate this mode of transfer.