On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:07:44 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

-->In article
>,
--> John Kane > wrote:
-->
-->> On Sep 20, 12:12*pm, Dan Abel > wrote:
-->> > In article >,
-->> > *"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
-->> >
-->> > > Om wrote:
-->> >
-->> > > > My mom's pulmonologist told me that he felt that WTW carpeting was
the
-->> > > > dumbest idea man ever invented.
-->> >
-->> > > Given carte blanche with the decorating in Lin's and my house, I'd opt
for
-->> > > painted concrete floors. It's cool underfoot and it can look gorgeous
(and
-->> > > of course you can always put rugs down, too).
-->> >
-->> > >http://www.concretenetwork.com/concr...eriorfloorshas a nice slideshow of
-->> > > painted flooring.
-->> >
-->> > > My vote for "dumbest idea ever" would be cigarettes.
-->> >
-->> > But *most* people don't put cigarettes on the floor.
-->> >
-->> > :-)
-->>
-->> They don't? Well they do well enough on streets to make up for small
-->> mercies.
-->>
-->> >
-->> > "Cool underfoot" might be a good thing where you live in the summer, but
-->> > my floors stay cool enough in the summer, and I would just as soon not
-->> > have cool floors in the winter.
-->>
-->> Underfloor heating . It worked for the Romans and still works for
-->> the Koreans.
-->
-->I understand that there is a lot of underfloor hot water heating in this
-->area (not in my town, though). I also understand that a lot of these
-->have failed. They are not repairable, and people have to install an
-->entire forced air heating system to heat their houses.

The military base i worked on had hot water heating for the whole base,
including the gym ( where I worked) 200 ft. from the main plant across a
roadway of four lanes. We never had a problem at 30 below with our heating,
even with all the pounding traffic over top of the pipes, none ever broke or
sprung leaks.