Tile, Wood or Carpet: What Belongs on a Heated Floor

A radiant floor can be designed correctly, installed correctly, and still underperform — because of a decision made at a flooring showroom m...

Four Inches of Floor: The Structural Cost of Radiant Heat

Most people planning radiant floor heating start by comparing boilers. That is roughly two decisions too early. The floor decides first. Ho...

Radiant Floor Heating: What It Costs and Why It Fails

In a Korean apartment the warm floor costs nothing extra. It is in the structural drawing before the concrete is poured — the modern form of...

Korean Apartment Heating: A Decision You Cannot Reverse

The floor is warm either way. That is the part nobody argues about. What changes is where the heat was made, who pays when something breaks...

District or Individual Heating: What the Listing Won't Tell You

Korean property listings carry a line most foreign renters skim past. 개별난방, or 지역난방. Individual heating, or district heating. Two words tha...

Nine Ways to Cut a Korean Heating Bill — Three Backfire

The controller on a Korean apartment wall has more buttons than it looks like it needs. Room mode. Floor mode. Away mode. A timer. A separa...