Radiant Floor Warming

The Roman Bath Experience in your Bath

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:21:42 +0000

Radiant floor heating was invented by the Romans. They raised the floors up and placed wood furnaces under them. The furnaces kept the famous marble baths toasty warm. The technology got lost in time after the sack of Rome.

radiant floor heat in Korea

In Korea, radiant floor heat has been in use for about 2000 years. The original design used stones and underground ducts to move warm air fromt the kitchen to the rest of the house.

In Europe, radiant floor heat wasn’t rediscovered until British inventor A.H. Barker invented the radiant panel. The panel used pipes connected to a hot water heater under the floor, using the entire surface to generate heat. Again the concept got lost in the mist of time, this time because of WWI.

Later, Frank Lloyd Wright created gravity heat. Gravity heat was installed by placing coils of pipes under the concrete slab floor.

We may owe a debt to the Romans but today it’s a whole lot easier to recreate the Roman Bath experience. Radiant floor heat in modern times works by laying electrical wires under the floor surface. Most Flooring surfaces can be heated including tile, marble, hardwood slate, terrazzo and concrete. The electricity creates heat that warms the floor and surrounding air.

If you want radiant floor heat in your house, check out our information on installation.

photo credit: London Korean Links

Attention Commercial Builders & Architects!

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:32:23 +0000

Radiant floor heat adds a great touch to bathrooms in residential multi-unit projects.

Heat mats are easier to install then cable heating systems.

Let us do the layouts for you. We’ll put the packages together for each room size. Installation will be a breeze! We deal directly with manufacturers so we are able to offer preferred and volume pricing to contarcators.

iPad in Construction

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:52:04 +0000

Project managers, Contractors, project engineers, superintendents & project execs!

You can do anything from carry your plans and specs into the field, to manage tasks and issues for subcontractors and more.

Use an iPad on the job site for:

product brochures and to keep track of estimates
check emails, project extranets, PDF drawings

Reccommended apps

Autocad Viewer app for the iPad. You may want to look for it if you’re interested.
goodreader and set up folders and store PDF’s for all my projects. iDisk and Dropbox to transfer files. DocsToGo to track submittals, rfi’s and CO’s.
iAnnotate, is there any other annotation software worthwhile to make notes on the drawings
The construction apps at www.blocklayer.com might come in handy on your iPad on-site.
I find Evernote indispensable for field notes.
Largeviewer- loads large PDF drawings a lot faster than other apps
Dropbox- keep prints, time cards, work orders, etc
Notes Plus- take notes in meetings.
Any of the PDF markup apps, can do as builds, take notes on the prints
logmein- access your work desktop from anywhere
Cyber Acoustics looks good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvZi18yYrQ

http://www.cyberacoustics.com/retail…vers/IC-1002BK

Reccommeneded accessories

how to make iPads rugged enough for any construction job site. Many of our users have put their iPads inside cases from Otterbox, which work very well. You can read more about iPad and iPad2 cases here:

http://www.velasystems.com/construct…ction-project/