[Cob] radiant floor tubes in clay floor: insulation?

[Tys Sniffen]

Right. Sorry. This is northern California, freezes for maybe 10 days a year
total. Mostly worried about hot from May to October. 

I'm just building the roof with a timber frame structure, and the stem wall
is done.  Cob starting is this next summer, so no insulation yet. 

The radiant tubes will probably be a closed system heated via solar with a
propane tankless backup. 

Tys

-----Original Message-----
From: Shody Ryon [mailto:qi4u at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:29 PM
To: coblist at deatech.com; Tys Sniffen
Subject: Re: [Cob] radiant floor tubes in clay floor: insulation?

Hi Tys
I forget, what climate is this in?
Is there insulation anywhere in the house? If so how much and were?
What heating system are you using? solar, gas, electric?
Shody


--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Tys Sniffen <tys at ideamountain.com> wrote:

> From: Tys Sniffen <tys at ideamountain.com>
> Subject: [Cob] radiant floor tubes in clay floor: insulation?
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 10:36 PM
> Hey folks, 
> 
> as I read about radiant floors, in typical houses, they put
> insulation
> against the inside, and sometimes outside of the house
> foundation.
> Sometimes they make an "L" shape with insulation
> under the floor and up the
> wall a bit.  My north side will be bermed in, and my
> southern side is of
> course, my solar gain side.  Does anyone have an opinion
> about whether I
> should put insulation in between the clay floor, the gravel
> sub-floor, and
> my concrete and mortared urbanite stem wall?  If you think
> I should do it,
> how much (how wide?) 
> 
>  
> 
> Starting to think about the inside,
> 
> Tys
> 
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