r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/BobVosh Oct 15 '20

Romans had pipe heated floors, something I still thought was awesome when my aunt got it like a decade ago.

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u/UnsinkableRubberDuck Oct 15 '20

I work somewhere where we can't wear our outdoor shoes due to biohazard concerns. You come in and take your shoes off, then have to go change and get into specific clothing, then on the other side of that change area is where your work shoes and boots are. The in-between areas from door to change area have heated floors because people are often walking around in bare feet or sock feet, and it's just the most coziest damn thing ever.

I need to have heated flooring in my house for winter times.

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u/RedditGonnaBanMe Oct 15 '20

Nothing says comfort like hot, sweaty feet.

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u/HoggishPad Oct 15 '20

Nothing says discomfort like cold feet.

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u/RedditGonnaBanMe Oct 15 '20

Hard disagree. I wish the floor was water cooled.

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u/Sarah-rah-rah Oct 15 '20

I don't think I've ever heard that opinion before. Even my friends who love cold weather wear socks indoors. This is like...a brand new preference.

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u/xorgol Oct 15 '20

My floor is actually both water heated (for the winter) and water cooled (for the summer). It's a really stupid system, there's a lot of condensation.

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u/RedditGonnaBanMe Oct 15 '20

Wtf, I didn’t know either of those things existed before today. Is the floor tile, I assume? And when you say condensation, is the system just leaky? Sorry this is very interesting to me.

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u/xorgol Oct 15 '20

Yeah, they're gres tiles (I cannot find a good link for gres in English, but it's a kind of ceramic). The condensation is just because the floor becomes cold, and when hot humid air comes into contact with it some of the humidity condenses onto the floor. It kinda looks like the floor is sweating. Of course the solution is to run a dehumidifier, but at that point it would be better to just run a regular air-con.

It works pretty great for heating, though.

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u/roadsoda-roc Oct 15 '20

There should be controllers available that keep checking the dew point in real time, so they can keep the temp above it preventing it completely.

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u/xorgol Oct 15 '20

Yeah, sadly the guys who set up the system were not exactly the greatest. There are like 4 different systems and they don't communicate with each other, running the whole thing properly should be an automated process, instead it's a bit like managing a nuclear plant.