Tubes In The floor

The crews began pouring the concrete flooring last week. But first.....the tubes had to go in. These are the tubes that will provide radiant heating AND cooling to the building, believed to be a first in our area.

It's not that radiant heating is unknown in the region, but we haven't found an example of radiant heating and cooling around Reading. The system is incredibly more efficient than other forms of heating and cooling and will make the building much more comfortable as the temperature will be much more even throughout spaces than in standard construction. This helps save energy by cutting down on the "turn the heat up, turn it down" system that goes on in most offices.

So before the floors can be poured, the tubing that will carry the water throughout the building had to be put down and pressure tested for leaks. The building is now enclosed in plastic (and it's a balmy seventy degrees inside) so that the floors can cure properly.