On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 11:44:08 PM UTC-4, sherwoodarcher wrote:
replying to Doug Miller, sherwoodarcher wrote:
spambait wrote:

In article , "Stormin Mormon"
Never lived in a house with radiant heat, have you?



I personally liked radiant floor heating, as much my dog too. Very
comfort temperature of warm floors instead dry and overheated air from
forced air heating system.
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The dry air issue on forced air can be solved with a humidifier that
will maintain humidity at whatever you like. I've never understood
the claimed issue with forced air heat being "dry". The issue would
seem to be that any air that is heated will have a drop in relative
humidity. The air gets heated the same whether it's forced air,
baseboard or radiant. A furnace doesn't magically extract water from
the air. I can understand that different heats may be perceived
differently and you may prefer radiant for that reason, but I don't
see how radiant heating would maintain humidity levels, while a
forced air furnace would not. Unless the forced air system is leaking,
sucking outside air in somehow, which may have been a factor in decades
gone by. But seems to me a perfectly working forced air system
would result in the same relative humidity inside the house as
any other system.