Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: ancillary heating questions

[Andrew Burgess (aab]

>It's noisier than I was led to believe.

What makes the noise? How loud is it?

>We don't have zones in our floors, and at least one of us (of 14 houses) has
>needed to buy space heaters to heat north-facing rooms when we don't want to
>heat the whole second floor.  It's an easy solution.

Another is to run the tubing as if zone valves and a controller were
present but don't install them (the tubing loops come out of the
slab and right back in). Then its easy to retrofit later
by buying the hardware. Once the tubing is in concrete you'll never
change to zones.

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