Pivot

Had a very productive Zoom meeting with Jeffrey Sauls at Energy Vanguard. To cut to the chase, I've abandoned radiant heating and cooling with the exception of heating the basement slab. So we will still use an air-to-water heat pump (so we can heat the slab), but heating and cooling the main floor above the basement will be by forced air. This is an economic decision, so I'm not buying two methods of moving (or removing) heat on the main floor. (Radiant for heating, air handler and ducting for cooling.) Our Florida experience included a loud air handler (you had to turn up the volume on the TV whenever the AC came on) with overhead registers that blew cold air down on you. Here, the air handler will be in the basement (no basements in Florida), so sound should not be a problem. The registers will be in the floor, because we're going to keep the ducting out of the attic. We'll be judicious in out choice of locations. They need some details about the floor trusses, but they'll work up…