The heat ducts usually travel in the walls behind the drywall and exit through openings in the ceiling on first floor levels.
Walls floors and ceilings blank heat.
Under normal conditions neither radiant floors or radiant ceilings heat the air to an uncomfortable level like in forced air systems however.
If there is insufficient outside wall space to meet the heat load use interior walls.
As hot air rises away.
Baseboard registers also supply heated or cooled air to a room.
From the floor first and all areas under windows.
For homeowners wanting to keep their existing tile or hardwood floor but still benefit from radiant heat wall and ceiling applications can be installed less intrusively and for a lower cost.
You can also place heating elements on opposite walls of a room for warming action from two areas.
Then it moves along floor joists to any upper levels.
Baseboard mounted grilles are used as return air inlets to ducts.
Commercial diffusers are ceiling mounted and used as supply air outlets.
Also if the homeowners later decide to put carpeting on the floor it won t affect the performance of the heating system like it would have if the tubing had been in the floor.
Another myth about radiant floors and ceilings involves the surface temperatures that are achieved.
Registers these typically slatted covers are found in the floor wall or ceiling and their defining feature is a lever that allows you to open or close the air vent to adjust airflow into the space.
Under the floor the original and most popular configuration radiant floor heating is the industry standard for several reasons.
Use only the bottom half of the walls 4 ft.
Ceiling duct openings work in opposition to the general law of physics that heat rises.
Just as the overhead rays of the sun are absorbed by the beach sand radiant ceilings warm the floor.
They direct and circulate airflow onto the walls and can easily be installed over floor moldings.
You can find floor registers in a variety of materials styles and finishes so you can incorporate them as a decorative element that also blends.
First heating from below creates a more active air current than in wall or ceiling options.