Radiant Space Heating

As a company interested in energy conservation and appropriate technology, Light Energy Systems offers the finest, most efficient heating system technology available, radiant heat energy.

Have you ever stepped onto a cold tile or hardwood floor in the morning? It's enough to send shivers up your spine! Aside from having thick wall to wall carpet, there isn't much that can be done. Radiant floor heating makes tile, wood, marble, or granite floor coverings barefoot warm.

Radiant heating works fundamentally different from forced air. Forced air furnaces heat air, the most inefficient medium to transfer heat. Radiant controls heat loss from your body. Heat leaves your body in three ways, aspiration (breathing), convection (air flow), and radiation. Half of all the body's heat loss occurs by radiation. Radiant heating reduces this heat loss by 25-45% by warming the surfaces of the building. The end result is the most comfortable heated space imaginable!

Advantages of Radiant Heat:

•Most Comfortable Type of Heat - Even heat, right where you want it. No loud fan, or hot air, no hot or cold spots. 
•Health Benefits - No fan blowing dust or allergens. 
•Heat Zones - Rooms can have their own individual temperature settings. Unused rooms can be turned off to save money. 
•Versatile Heat Source - the hot water pipes can be connected to a boiler, hot water heater, heat pump, solar collector . . . virtually any hot water source. 
•Super Efficient - Systems put heat where it does the most good, at the floor. Systems routinely save 20-40% off of a high efficiency forced air system. 
• Space saving - no large ductwork necessary.

Applications:

New Construction
Radiant floor heat is ideal in new construction. The home can be designed to place the hot water tubing into a lightweight concrete sub-floor. Any type of finish flooring can be used atop the warm concrete.