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Default Underfloor heating with less of the "under floor"

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:51:47 +0000, Tim S wrote:

If we assume:

a) the ground is 5C mean in winter (seems to be bourne out by a rough slab
surface measuremment I took last week),

b) The ground is an infinite heatsink (worst case, but largely ********, but
I don't have data to do better)


There's a 'standard' U value for solid floors of 0.36 from BS5449(1990)



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