Radiant Floor Heating,
R. Dodge Woodson, 284 pages
This is a very technical manual detailing the installation
and maintenance of various designs of hydronic (meaning hot-water-based)
radiant floor heating. Woodson covers both wet (slab concrete or thin-slab) and
dry (above or below the subfloor) installation methods, walks through how to
purge air from the system, and goes into detail about how to diagnose issues
with various different types of boilers.
This book was frankly rather too technical for me. I had
been hoping for a layman’s guide to radiant floor heating, but this is
definitely aimed at heating and plumbing contractors. Some of the diagrams were
quite helpful in understanding the material, but many were just blueprints for
a certain part, with no explanation of how they worked. Additionally, Woodson
uses little text boxes (with catchy titles like Tech Tip and Hot Point), which
just copy-paste sentences from elsewhere on the page rather than summarizing or
elaborating on the concepts. It felt like there was a lot of filler in this
book.
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