We (the home builder I work for) are using a form of insulated aluminum foil in the house we are currently building. Although we are only using it under the heated floor, not in the walls or the ceiling.
One thing to remember about radiant heat: It's proportional to T
4 = T x T x T x T (where "T" is the temperature of the object). The point of this is that "
HOT" things radiate a lot more BTUs/hour than warm things.
Hot things like: pizza-delivery, your face, in-floor heating systems.
Will this be completed tonight? Tomorrow?
No, no,
no! I am a very slow and lazy -- that is,
methodical -- researcher (
amazing I managed to keep my job for 30+ years
)...but
when I do it it'll be
right (which is
how I managed to keep my job for 30+ years).
I won't do this experiment until/unless the outside temperature is well below freezing -- in Bend it's not cold if it's above freezing.
For one thing, I haven't bought the fleece yet...maybe I will tomorrow. I want to do these tests all on the same night and/or with identical outdoor temperatures, and I'm not ready yet. Research is a slowww process.
Or as
Principal Seymour Skinner says of Science: "
All the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers. Yes science has it all."..
.ask highz for confirmation on this point.