What is Hydronics?

The most comfortable way to heat your home, shop or building, Hydronics uses hot water circulating through pipes to release heat evenly, without drafts, dust or dryness. Temperatures are controllable to one half of one degree.

Key Advantages

There are three key advantages to Hydronics: comfort, control and consistency.

The comfort comes from the ability of a Hydronics sytem to maintain a very narrow temperature band. Forced air (furnace) systems will typically swing through temperature ranges of five or more degrees within a room. Hydronics can maintain temperature to within one half of one degree! And heat is down low where you need it, not heating your ceiling. Children are safe and comfortable playing on the floor. Your feet are warm while your head is comfortable. There are no drafts and no dust blowing about, which means allergy sufferers can breathe easier. Hydronics heat is quiet heat, so no furnace booms to wake you up in the middle of the night. And there are many more advantages that add to your comfort!

The control available with a Hydronics system is amazing.

Potentially, you could have a thermostat in every single room of the house, each with unique settings and setback schedules! Turn down heat to unused rooms. Warm up the kitchen in the morning without wasting energy on the rest of the house. keep grandma’s room warm when she visits. Have the kids’ rooms go into night setback at 9:00 but keep your TV room warm until 11:00. Want air conditioning? No problem! Several options exist for integrating the two systems. The control options are limited only by your imagination.

Consistency and efficiency in a Hydronics System are unparalleled. Even heat right across a floor, even in front of windows. No hot or cold corners. And the heat goes where it is needed and only where it is needed. No ceiling fan required to push it back down to you. This heat doesn’t rise! Almost 100% heat transfer is possible. Slow, quiet, timed release means no hot spikes or cold dips. You won’t even notice the heat coming on!