John Stumbles wrote:
Someone was telling me about a Grand Designs where they'd put in radiant
window heating. Never heard of it before and it sounds firmly in the
league of containers for beverages of Asian-sub-continental herbal
infusions constructed of confections of sweetened South American stimulant
bean-based plant extracts. But it was apparently Belgian, which might (or
not) explain it. Anyone see it, have any more info?


What surprised me more was that there is clear air between the two
levels, as the upper floor was suspended on a steel frame above the roof
of the ground floor.

Why??
Kevin McCloud said this was so that it appeared 'floating' over the
fields, but at what cost (other than £685,000 of course!)?

OG wrote:

What surprised me more was that there is clear air between the two
levels, as the upper floor was suspended on a steel frame above the roof
of the ground floor.

Why??
Kevin McCloud said this was so that it appeared 'floating' over the
fields, but at what cost?

snip

The cost of heating what becomes a room effectively with six external
walls?

OG wrote:

What surprised me more was that there is clear air between the two
levels, as the upper floor was suspended on a steel frame above the roof
of the ground floor.

Yes, apart from whatever warm air makes it upstairs through the tubular
staircase, the heat from downstairs can't benefit the upstairs.