SUNSHIELD 2000 - Kindred Kits - SUN SHIELD 2000 Ceramic

INFLOOR RADIANT HEATING
November 2004
( see NOTES )
This 8,000 square foot house located in Kitsilano, overlooking English Bay, will be heated on all 3 floors with infloor radiant heat.

Because of inclement weather, the local ambient temperature and relative humidity, a tarp was used to cover the house during the SUNSHIELD 2000 ® coating process.

SUNSHIELD 2000 ® as a Thermal Break	Top Floor with 16 mils WFT = 7 mils DFT

Second Floor Entrance	Second Floor Entrance

Second Floor Complete	Second Floor Complete

Bottom Floor with Electric Heater ( DRY HEAT ) to speed up the cure down.	Bottom Floor clean, dry and sound ready to accept a coating of SUNSHIELD 2000 ®.

All 3 floors where completed in 1 day by sealing all openings and applying Electric heat.	Installation of the radiant heating system was started the next day on schedule.

On a horizontal substrate 16 mils WFT	can be applied in a single coat cross hatched.

Bottom Floor Finished	Bottom Floor Finished

Poly to protect Architectural Concrete	2nd coat cross hatched @ 8 mils WFT to Insulate the vertical Chimney Chase

NOTE : In this particular application the SUNSHIELD 2000 ® is completely buried in concrete and consequently only 2 of the 4 ceramics will come into play. The 2 reflective ceramics are ineffective in this type of application because the coating is facing direct contact, low temperature, front side conduction. This will reduce the Effective R value to approximately RE6 for SUNSHIELD 2000 ® and RE9 for SUPER THERM ® as demonstrated by the ASTM C236 - " Steady State Thermal Performance of Building Assemblies by means of a Guarded Hot Box ". A Reflective Paint on the other hand wouldn't work at all in this application and is a further demonstration of the difference between a Reflective Paint and an Insulating Coating. Additional R value Effectiveness can be achieved by adding more thickness. This is amply demonstrated with our new HOT PIPE COATING ® when the surface temperature can be reduced from 1000F to only 163F with a mere 1" DFT as certified by the TEMPERATURE REDUCTION CHART - VTEC LABORATORIES.

In an independent test conducted by JSA Sales a 10F difference was recorded using SUNSHIELD 2000 ®.

The following is courtesy of Don Pasternak of PRAGMATEK BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC. the distributor for New Jersey. Don is working with Bill Barbera the Vice President of HVAC Alternatives, Inc. Bill recently ( October 2005 ) applied SUPER THERM ® Multi ~ Ceramic Insulation Coating as the thermal break under newly installed in floor radiant heating. His results match the results achieved on our projects.

" I have performed some additional tests on supertherm. Recently I installed radiant on the 2nd floor of my own home.

One room I coated the sub-floor with 2 coats Supertherm Installed 9" wide sleepers & heat transfer plates with 1/2" pex then Pergo for finished floor.

The rest of the rooms was installed using 3/4" Dow Polystyrene with heat transfer plates and pex, simulating the Roth products system for radiant retrofit systems in lieu of the supertherm and plywood.

The Supertherm ® room responds twice as fast, with virtually no heat loss

My Conclusion:

1- I had to reduce the flow to that room to prevent fly wheeling and overheating

2- I wish I used Supertherm ® throughout.

3-Supertherm is far superior than conventional insulation.

Supertherm is truly an amazing product. I intend on specifying it in all future energy conservation projects. "

Regards,
Bill Barbera

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