Whether you’ve been living comfortably in your house for years or you are building a new home, installing a radiant heated driveway is a viable option for you. Certainly it is more practical to install a radiant snow melting system…
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Continued from Part I Installing an Electric Radiant Snow Melting System To install a ClearZone snow melting system in concrete, the driveway is first prepared for the concrete pour, including the placement of rebar or remesh. The durable heat cable…
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You’re Late for a Very Important Date and Snow is to Blame Do you spend more time making up excuses as to why you are late than you actually do in being on time to your appointments, dates, yoga class,…
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It’s Not Too Late to Heat Your Driveway (Part II) Read Part I The methods outlined in Part I are the least intrusive for retrofitting your driveway with radiant heat. However, there are those particularly ambitious consumers who opt to…
Read post You might be like many of us and are afraid to even say the word recession. If we say it then we’ll have to admit it’s really here and our spending choices have to be even more prudent. Economic downturns…
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What are the Best Options for Keeping Your Driveway Clear of Snow and Ice? Every year it comes, and every year we fight it. I’m talking about snow . . . lots and lots of snow. Sure, it’s pretty and…
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Hydronic Radiant Heat Continued from Part I Hydronic heating was the first form of radiant heat, used by ancient Chinese civilizations and further developed by the Romans. Today’s hydronic floor heating systems feature PEX radiant tubing that is usually installed…
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Electric Radiant Heating Comes in Many Flavors Although radiant heat has been around for many years now, new technology has paved the way for it to arrive in earnest. There’s no cleaner form of heating than radiant heat. A wire…
Read post Install Now and Retire Your Shovel Before the Snow Hits So if you’ve checked out the Farmer’s Almanac, you’ll see that there’s lots of precipitation ahead for us this winter. If you’re from the Midwest, you’ve probably even got your…
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What can be daunting about any radiant heat home improvement project, of course, is where to start. What begins as a simple remodel becomes a full-time job, scheduling contractors, including architects, electricians, and other lay persons for the task at…
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