Radiant floor heat or radiant floor heating system is nowadays the top choice among families who live in extremely chilling conditions as it is cost effective, emanates warmth throughout the house and cuts out the ordeal of putting your warm snug feet on bitterly cold floors after waking up in the morning.
Naturally, more and more American households are opting for the energy efficient radiant floor heating systems to uniformly heat up their houses.
Now one of the most important components of floor heat or radiant heating process is PEX tubing which plays a great role in this type of heating system. The full form of PEX is cross linked polyethylene that ensures warm snug room temperatures and also warm floors even if the temperature outside resembles a freezing Russian winter.
It was in the 1950s that floor heating systems came into existence in the American continent. Almost 70% American households have switched over to this system and this figure includes office premises as well.
In most cases it is seen that the process of heating is done via the method of under floor heating. If the quality of the pipes used in heating is of really superior quality, then this under floor heating will be very successful. But under floor heating will fall flat on its face, if the pipes used are of inferior quality. This is how PEX tubing makes its entry into the radiant floor heat systems.
This cross linked polyethylene material used in PEX pipes is very durable, long lasting and flexible, apart from being able to withstand high temperatures for a long time.
PEX manifold or PEX plumbing is of vital importance while installing a radiant heating system because better the quality of PEX piping, warmer will the floor be and that too for long stretches. That is why it is advisable to choose superior quality PEX plumbing for your heating system, rather than fixed copper pipes.
Copper pipes aren't energy efficient or cost effective, and they easily fall prey to corrosion. You will never have to worry about these problems if you use PEX manifold. PEX piping/tubing can also be covered by concrete.
The fact that radiant floor heating systems help to save energy and bring down fuel consumption by a whopping 15% to 20% is because they use PEX piping that is both energy efficient and cost effective.
If you want to experience all the multiple benefits of radiant floor heating system, you have no other choice but to fall back on PEX plumbing as radiant floor heating is almost impossible without PEX. It is imperative that you pay close attention to the fitting of these pipes and also to the quality of the pipes that will be used in this type of heating system.
