Heated floors
Looking to upgrade to a Tiffin Bus all electric and wondering the pros and cons also heated floors pros and cons. I live in North Idaho and store my RV out doors and how the heated floors are in cold
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jorbill2or wrote:dougrainer wrote:Mile High wrote:
Tiffen uses electric heated floors. Entegra actually uses the AquaHot to heat the floors.
Either way - I would get them if available! They weren't available for us and those tile floors can get down pretty darn cold in the morning :)
There is a difference between HEATED floors and what Aqua Hot does. Aqua hot is NOT a Heated Floor like people think you mean. Aqua Hot just has their floor mounted Radiators with the muffin fans blow hot/warm air ACROSS the floor at the floor level. NOT close to that 14 inch wide radiator and the Floor is NOT warm/heated. True heated floors have a 120 volt heat grid under the Tile floor and radiate the heat evenly thru out the Tile floor. While Entegra advertises they use Aqua Hot to heat the floors, I think that is a misleading statement. I researched this because I thought Entegra was running coolant lines in a grid under the Tiles. NOT a good idea as leaks are bound to happen. I found out they do not, they use the Radiator system to flow the heat across the floors. Doug
Well, I think you got some bad info I toured Entegra last year and the floors are heated not by the muffin radiators .. the Aqua hot tubing runs UNDER the floor in coils.not embedded in the floor tile it’s laid in with the insulation, between the floor and the basement ceiling . It uses the same tubes that feed the radiators but you set the floor heat higher ( separate thermostat) keeping the floor warm with fluid running constantly through the tubing.the tubing runs through the entire floor in loops I saw it . It’s Independent of the radiator blowers even though the Fluid does pass through them .It is different in that it takes many hours to heat the floor from cold. Most leave it on all the time in cool weather. Supposedly it is a solid tube with no joints .. no leaks. At least not anywhere under the floor.
Pretty sure this is the case - Heated floors are nice , it's the one thing we put in our spec when we had our Coach built that TS didn't do, Would have Loved It - But a rug does work:-)
IMHO there is just as big a chance, if not more of one , for failure with electric floors vs floors with the heat running in the coils.
If you can get them, by all means do - you will not be sorry.
JMHO,
