thanks for the response.

It was the builders suggestion to do the "in joist" heating. The in joist
heating is not done at this time. The building is a shell and has the floors
built. In the basement there is a concret slab with the pipes already in for
th infloor heating. The other two floors are just plywood with no heating
pipes installed yet. The builder said he was going to do in joist on those
floors.

Will engineered Hardwood give me better tranfer then hardwood? We will have
tile down in kitchen and hallway, but we wanted to do the dinning and main
room in hardwood. We do not want laminite, we are sure about that.

Thanks again for the advince.

Rob

"Bob Pietrangelo" wrote in message
...
Sqeaky and not that great of transfer of heat, not like tile . If you are
willing to change the flooring you, it has to be a floating connection not
a
nailed down connection. It is not unbearable, but it is a little creepy
sometimes! If this is a new construction why in the world would you go
with
an under the floor board rather than above. Alot better heat transfer.

--
Bob Pietrangelo


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"RobAHali" wrote in message
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Hello,
I'm building a house and trying to descide on flooring. The heating
system
on the 2 floors will the "in joist" floor heating. We really want to use
Hardwood floors. We have been told many different stories about using
Hardwood VS using Engineered Hardwood over the floors. What I've read is
that if you pick the right wood (Americian cherry) then you can do a
regular
Nail-down installation of the floor (being careful of the pipes of
course).

What i'm wondering is if any here has any advice on the subject. Does
anyone
have any experiences good or bad installing real hardwood over injoist
heating?

Thanks in advance,
Rob