In-floor Radiant Heating

[Paul Chick (Earthlink)]

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. 
TIA,
Paul

 

Several years ago, I rebuilt a Baldwin R that spent most of its life on a
floor with this type of radiant heat.  They wanted a practice piano and
declined SB and bridge replacement.  The pin block was replaced along with
the hammers, shanks, wippens, refelting.Three years later, many tuning pins
were loose, and the action regulation was gone.  Five years later it hardly
held a tuning; CA'd the pins, and did nothing to the action. There was no
attempt to humidify the piano or the household.  It was a wasted effort.
She told me at one point her previous tuner said the heat in her house was
killing the piano.  

 

Paul C

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