Radiant Heating Colorado Springs

Absolute Comfort offers Radiant Heating services in Colorado Springs including installation, service, and repair.

Radiant heating is a an excellent and efficient system for heating your home and outdoor areas such as driveways, sidewalks, and patios. Radiant heating heats a building via radiant heat as opposed to convection heating. Heat energy is emitted from a warm element – floor, wall, or overhead panel, and warms rooms and objects rather than heating the air. The same level of body comfort can be achieved with a lower air temperature than with traditional heated buildings.

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Outdoor radiant heating systems target specific areas to be heated, warming up only objects in and people in these areas. Other outdoor heating systems are very inefficient because the wind just blows away any heated air.

Radiant heating is used for snow melting. You have probably seen these systems working in sidewalks, outdoor shopping village areas at ski resorts such as Vail, Beaver Creek, and many others in Colorado. Snow and ice melting can be achieved on concrete, asphalt, pavers and other surfaces by placing heating units (electric heating elements or hydronic tubing) under the substrate, embedded into the substrate, or retrofit by saw-cut into the substrate of the surface to be free of snow and ice buildup.

Radiant heating systems are categorized in the following ways: