[LazyPup]

Quote;"I also wanted to see if anyone has done this in the northern states where colder temps exist."

It really wouldn't matter whether your house is in Boston, Massachusetts or Miami,Fla. When they properly design a heating or cooling system they begin by doing a heat loss study of the structure. In the process of working up the study they have to consider every room in the house, one by one, to determine the actual BTU requirement for that particular room. If we were then designing a forced air system that information would be used to determine the size of ducts and registers required in the room. In the case of radiant heating that information is used to determine the length of baseboards, size of radiators or the overall length of the in floor radiation lines. Providing the system is designed to provide the required BTU energy the infloor radiant will work just as good as any other system.

Where you will really notice the difference is the first time you step out of a hot shower, expecting to land your wet foot on a cold tile surface and preparing for the shivers to run up your spine, but alas, that won't happen because your tender tooties will land on a nice warm tile surface and you won't want to leave the bathroom.

Taking the discussion of infloor radiant to the ultimate level. At my last home in Westfield, Massachusetts I installed PEX tubing in my sidewalks and driveway. In that manner, when we got a snow all I had to do was go down in the basement, open a valve and turn a circulator pump on to melt the snow off the driveway and walkways. Some people thought i was crazy because it required a lot of energy to melt the snow, but when you consider that they charge $50 or $60 to plow a driveway and you still have to clean the walks in the end I was probably saving money, not to mention the cost of the snowblower and the inconvenience of bundling up to go outside to keep the walks clean.