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Re: building a shop - radiant heat

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Subject: Re: building a shop - radiant heat
From: Martin Scarr <martins@efn.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:22:35 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Eric Murray wrote:

> Nowadays, they use plastic (probably polyethlyne) tubes.
> Old Eichlers in Palo Alto used galvanized pipes, with predictble
> results.  Or they uses copper pipes, and failed to protect them from
> the concrete and the lime oxidized them.

I own a house with copper tubing for the radiant heat piping.  It was
built in the mid '60's.  The only problem I've ever experienced was where
a piece of steel reinforcing mesh/wire touched the pipe, and caused
corrosion.
 
regards
Martin Scarr

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