Launstein Hardwood Floors are engineered to give your home the Beauty of Hardwood Flooring and the Luxury of Radiant Heat. Heated Hardwood Flooring is the single most effective Luxury upgrade for your home. With Launstein Hardwood Floors you can enjoy the Beauty of Natural Wood, with the comfort of Radiant Heat.
Hate chilling shock of a frigidly cold floor on your bare feet? Natural Hardwoods warm quickly and are cozy on bare feet. Heated flooring has been available in some form since the mid-1940s and the high tech radiant heat systems available today are perfect for hardwoods. Radiant Heated wood floors will make you feel not only warmer in your home, but proud of the luxury and warmth your home offers. The beauty, functionality and value of a hardwood floor over radiant heat should be enjoyed by every savvy homeowner. There are still some considerations homeowners should look at before making the decision to install Wood Flooring over Radiant heat, and we hope to address most those issues. As always, if you have any questions, just give us a call...We are here to help. |
Benefits of Radiant Heat Hardwood Flooring
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What is Radiant Heat Flooring?
Radiant heating system supply heat directly to your home’s floors or to panels in your walls/ceilings. Systems of this nature are dependent on radiant heat transfer, which is the delivery of warmth directly from a hot surface to room occupants via infrared radiation. Aren’t you feeling toasty warmth already? Types of radiant floor heat are listed below and installation can be either dry (placing the heated tubing between two layers of plywood) or wet (using concrete slab flooring): • Radiant air floors (air delivers the heat); • Electric radiant floors; • Hot water (also known as hydronic) radiant floors. What are the benefits of Radiant Floor Heating? There are several benefits to Heated Hardwood Floors including: • It is more efficient than “forced-air” heating because it eliminates duct losses; • It warms the surfaces of objects in the room as well as the air, which can significantly reduce the amount of heat loss from the occupants so everyone is more comfortable; • Those of you who are bothered by allergies like radiant heat because it doesn’t distribute allergens like traditional systems; • It’s quiet, clean and durable; with better air quality; • No need to be concerned about furniture placement over vents, etc.; • Liquid based systems (hydronic) use less electricity; • Hydronic systems can use a wide variety of energy sources to heat the liquid; • And radiant heat flooring is a luxurious feature that will increase the market value of your home; • Based on the heating system you select, you can utilize wireless zone heating and even set varying temperatures for each room. |
What’s the best type of flooring?
It is important to note that radiant heat systems are not intended for all types of wood. We recommend using hardwoods certified for use over radiant heat. All of our floors are manufactured specifically for this purpose; the species we carry are Ash, Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Red Oak, and White Oak. All types of hardwoods we offer can be bought is plainsawn or quartersawn, engineered, solid with a plain or custom finishing. Our line of floors can match any look you desire for your heated floor. We can custom make a small width floor to wide plank flooring, refined French Oak Flooring or Rustic hand scraped wood. Your imagination is the only thing that could limit the possibilities Launstein provides you for your new Heated Hardwood Floor. |
The Floors tested are 3/8", 5/8" and 3/4" solid and engineered hardwoods at varying widths. The species we have tested are:
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The Key to installing wood floors over radiant heat lies in these factors, which agree with RPA's Guidelines:
Plainsawn wood will move more than quartersawn especially when it is over 4 inches wide.
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Species |
r-values 3/4" Thick |
r-values 3/8" Thick |
Swelling % Quartersawn |
Swelling % Plainsawn |
Ash |
0.90 |
0.45 |
4.8% |
7.8% |
Beech |
0.72 |
0.36 |
5.5% |
11.9% |
Cherry |
0.90 |
0.45 |
3.7% |
7.1% |
Hickory |
0.66 |
0.33 |
4.9% |
8.9% |
Maple |
0.90 |
0.45 |
4.8% |
9.9% |
Red Oak |
0.78 |
0.39 |
4.2% |
8.9% |
Wood Floor |
Boiler Temp (F) |
Surface Temp (F) |
Humidity Level |
Results after 120 Days |
Hickory quartersawn 4",5",6" wide 3/8" Thick |
115-120 |
85 |
55% |
No Defects |
Red Oak plainsawn 2 1/4" Wide 3/4" Thick |
115-120 |
80 |
55% |
No Defects |
Maple plainsawn 4" Wide 3/4" Thick |
115-120 |
79 |
30% |
Very Slight Separation, most likely caused by low humidity |
Red Oak plainsawn 3" Wide 3/8" Thick |
122 |
86 |
45% |
No Defects |
White Oak quartersawn 6" Wide 3/8" Thick |
125 |
87 |
45% |
No Defects |
Hickory plainsawn 3" Wide 3/8" Thick |
115-120 |
85 |
40% |
No Defects |
Red Oak plainsawn 4" Wide 3/8" Thick |
130 |
90 |
30% |
Slight Separation Cause by High Temp and low Humidity |
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