Why Radiant In-Floor Heat?

Radiant In-Floor Heat provides many advantages over forced air heat.

1. Even Heating

In floor radiant heating offers a smooth heat, where as forced air heating has many high and low temperatures in the same room

In-floor radiant heat provides an even heat with a minor heat gradient going up into the room. This leaves the warmest air where it is most comfortable: your toes.

Forced air heating room temperatures vary widely, with the warmest air coming from the vent and then hanging around the ceiling. The means that forced air heating often pushes out air at 100°F.

2. Efficiency

In-floor heating saves up to 30% of your energy costs

Efficiency comes from the even heating. You do not need to create 100°F air, instead all your floors can be an even 72/74°F. Nothing has to be overheated or dry out as a result of hot air being forced into the house.

Water can also carry and transfer 3,500 times more heat than air can, making hydronic in-floor heating up to 30% more efficient (industry sources estimate.)

3. Better Air Quality

with in -floor heating, allergens do not blow around

Radiant in-floor heat is better air quality because it does not blow dust, fur or anything else in the air around.

4. It's Quiet

in-floor heating silently works

When the thermostat calls for heat, the HUG Hydronics system turns on its pumps. There is no noise in the floor, as the warm water flows silently under feet, and in the room (or closet) where the HUG Hydronics system is, it is still nothing more than a quiet whirling of the pumps at work.

5. It's Easy

HUG Hydronics in-floor heating is easy. Takes 1 hour, 4 simple tools, and a little space

Once the PEX pipes are in the floor, and your heat source installed, the HUG Hydronics in-floor heating system takes only an hour to install and uses only a few simple tools. It's designed to be understandable and repairable. Almost every part is replaceable in a few minutes, no tools needed.

We also have the directions on the website (See the How To Library) for all our common repairs and problems, and always have live tech support to answer any questions, or walk you through a step that is unclear.

6. It's Safe

it's safe. In floor heating does not require gas, flames, nor leaves any exhaust

In-floor heating doesn't involve open flames or exhaust in your living space, unlike combustion-based forced air furnaces — which is why gas leaks and carbon monoxide incidents tied to forced air systems are what make the news, not radiant floor systems.

The HUG Hydronics in-floor heating system, does each of these better- because you can understand it and control it.

What's Happening in Cottonwood?

Extreme Panel's demonstration house brings building techniques into the real world. As a sponsor, HUG Hydronics is providing Heat-Sheet, PEX, and the in-floor heating distribution system for the project.

Fellow EP Summit sponsor BUILD Show Network is documenting the process with cameras, interviews, and a closer look at each step of the process, leading up to the January 2027 Summit.

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What HUG Hydronics Brings to the Project.

  • Start below the slab
  • Heat-Sheet insulation provides the foundation for the project's radiant floor.
  • Put warmth underfoot
  • PEX loops carry heated fluid through the floor, turning the slab into part of the heating system.
  • Bring it together with HUG Hydronics
  • The HUG Hydronics system brings pumps and controls into a compact system simplifying the mechanical setup that serves the floor.
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