I told him that heat tapes should labor just as well, or better, under the bathroom floors
I knew my sibling-in-law would be gone for two weeks. She was visiting their daughter who had just had a baby. She wanted to help handle the baby until their daughter was moving around a bit better after having a brutal c-section. Two days after she left, Dave called and asked me to come over. Dave told me his wife had typically wanted radiant heated flooring in the bathrooms, and he needed my skills and knowledge. I was a certified Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C worker, but I wasn’t the Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C expert who worked with radiant heated flooring. That didn’t keep me from going to his house. Dave asked if his boiler would labor with radiant heat. I didn’t feel so. Dave had a traditional Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C system. Most sites with radiant heated flooring used a boiler systems. The water pipes were beneath the flooring and it was the tepid water which heated the floors. Dave had a central Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C system which used metal ductwork to pull the heat to the rooms. Dave asked me if there were other ways to give the effect of radiant heated flooring. Some of my customers liked heat tapes under their walkways and ramps. The electric heat tapes radiated the heat up to the surface, and it didn’t allow ice or snow to form in those areas. I told him that heat tapes should labor just as well, or better, under the bathroom floors. All I had to do was lift the carpeting or tiles, and locate the electric heat tape. Dave volunteered me to help him with the radiant heated flooring in his bathrooms. I was certainly the only Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C tech who would labor with Dave for free.