In-floor Radiant Heating

[Wayne Walker]

I thought it was okay until I had a customer with a 10 year old Baldwin
upright that developed a couple of cracks in the lower part of the
soundboard. The problem with radiant floor heating is it is cons taint
unlike a furnace that cycles on and off. I installed a Dampp-Chaser system
last year in this piano and I couldn't see the cracks this fall when I tuned
it.
Wayne Walker
Piano Tuner / Technician
Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service
264 Herring Cove Road
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3P 1M1
902-221-1540
902-496-6924 Fax
HYPERLINK "http://www.musicstop.com/"www.musicstop.com

-----Original Message-----
From: paul bruesch [mailto:tunergeek at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:49 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: In-floor Radiant Heating


I just had a phone call from a music studio that is installing electric coil
radiant heating in the floor. She wondered about the advisability of putting
the coils directly under where the piano will be placed.  I'm thinking it
may be better to avoid it, but I should defer to the greater expertise of
this list. 

For some reason, although this question has been bugging them for some time,
they only now decided to call me to ask... now that the workers are there
putting the tiles in the floor... so time is of the essence.  

If I don't get a definitive response from the many wiser persons here, I
think I would advise them to avoid an area for about a one-foot perimeter
around the piano.

TIA,
Paul



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