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In radiant floor, wall and/or ceiling hydronic heating and/or cooling systems using metal radiation plates that are heated or cooled by attached tubing that is fed hot or cold water, where the system includes a plurality of aligned modular heating and/or cooling panels attached to the floor, wall an

In radiant floor, wall and/or ceiling hydronic heating and/or cooling systems using metal radiation plates that are heated or cooled by attached tubing that is fed hot or cold water, where the system includes a plurality of aligned modular heating and/or cooling panels attached to the floor, wall and ceiling, each panel containing a metal radiation plate and each holds a length of the same tubing, the tubing being inserted into an accommodation in the panel and held therein in intimate thermal contact with the plate, and the assembly of panels with tubing inserted is covered with a finished floor, wall or ceiling and then hot water for heating or cold water for cooling is fed to the tubing, a thermal barrier is provided between the panels and the finished floor, wall or ceiling to: diminish or eliminate "hot spots" in the surface of the finished flooring, wall covering and ceiling covering during heating and "cold spots" during cooling; avoid condensation during cooling; and improve performance.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A hydronic heating system having a source of hot supply water and a reservoir of cooler return water, a supply water line from said source, a return water line to said reservoir and one or more heating loops through which water flows from said supply line to said return

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A hydronic heating system having a source of hot supply water and a reservoir of cooler return water, a supply water line from said source, a return water line to said reservoir and one or more heating loops through which water flows from said supply line to said return line, said heating loop including a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water from said supply line to said return line and said length of tubing is mounted in a floor, wall or ceiling of a room heated by said system by RFH, RWH or RCH, respectively, of said room, the improvement comprising:(a) a highly thermally conductive radiation plate having an elonaated slot on one side thereof and a corresponding elongated protuberance on the other side thereof, providing a radiating surface on the same side thereof as said elongated slot therein, mounted in said room floor, wall or ceiling, adjacent a surface thereof, with said radiating surface and said slot thereof facing said room,(b) a plate support of relatively low thermal conductivity material providing an elongated space in which said elongated protuberance of said plate fits,(c) said tubing being inserted into said elongated slot and held against said plate in intimate thermal contact therewith,(d) whereby said plate is heated by conduction of heat from said tubing and radiates heat to said room and(e) means providing a direct thermal conduction barrier between said tubing and said floor or wall surface,(f) whereby excessively high floor or wall surface temperature immediately adjacent said tubing are avoided.