Radiant Floor API
Radiant-floor and hydronic heating maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the output, tubing and flow numbers an installer or DIYer designs a warm floor with. The output endpoint gives the heat a warm floor puts out: about 2 BTU/hr per square foot for every °F the floor surface is above the room, so an 85 °F floor in a 70 °F room delivers roughly 30 BTU/hr/ft² — about 9,000 BTU/hr over 300 ft², the comfort ceiling since the floor is held at ~85 °F. The tubing endpoint gives the tube and loops for an area at a spacing: field tubing = area × 12 ÷ spacing, so 300 ft² at 9-inch spacing needs 400 feet of tube, split into loops kept under ~300 feet (two 200-foot loops) so the pump can push them. The flow endpoint gives the loop flow rate for a heat load, GPM = load ÷ (500 × ΔT) where 500 is water's constant and ΔT is the supply-to-return drop — 9,000 BTU/hr at a 20 °F ΔT wants 0.9 GPM. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for radiant-heating and plumbing apps, hydronic-design and PEX-layout tools, HVAC contractor calculators, and DIY-build sites. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints. Estimates — verify with a full heat-loss calc. For building load use an HVAC API; for pipe velocity use a flow-rate API.
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