Mercury Contracting | Vancouver Construction and Renovation http://mercurycontracting.com Wed, 16 May 2012 20:37:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Radiant Floor Heating http://mercurycontracting.com/radiant-floor-heating-is-the-way-to-go/ http://mercurycontracting.com/radiant-floor-heating-is-the-way-to-go/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:02:41 +0000 http://mercurycontracting.com/?p=6432 So you ask why your new home should have Radiant Floor Heating? Radiant heating has a number of advantages: it is more efficient than baseboard heating and usually more efficient than forced-air heating because no energy is lost through ducts. The lack of moving air can also be advantageous to people with severe allergies. Hydronic (liquid-based) systems use little electricity, a benefit for homes off the power grid or in areas with high electricity prices (like Vancouver). The hydronic systems can also be heated with a wide variety of energy sources, including standard gas- or oil-fired boilers, wood-fired boilers, solar water heaters, or some combination of these heat sources.

Despite their name, radiant floor heating systems also depend heavily on convection, the natural circulation of heat within a room, caused by heat rising from the floor.If you have no idea what a radiant floor heating system looks like, this video shows you one of our recent projects and the radiant water lines in which hot water will eventually run throughout all three levels of the house. There is of course more to it than this, but this should give you a good visual of the concept.

]]> http://mercurycontracting.com/radiant-floor-heating-is-the-way-to-go/feed/ 0 Donnelly Group does it again… Yaletown! http://mercurycontracting.com/the-donnelly-group-in-yaletown/ http://mercurycontracting.com/the-donnelly-group-in-yaletown/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:45:26 +0000 http://mercurycontracting.com/?p=6419 Remember the old Capones restaurant and live jazz bar on the historic Hamilton St.? If so, you may have noticed that it has been closed for quite some time and that recently the historic neon sign with the large cut-out letters spelling CAPONES was taken down. If you thought we had something to do with that, then we are guilty as charged. We were recently brought on board by the Donnelly Hospitality Group to build their newest soon to be hot-spot in Yaletown (name to be announced soon) which for the puposes of this Blog post we will refer to as “the old Capones”.

Here are some of the construction pictures that I took this week. We will keep you posted as the work progresses. Anticipated opening date is end of April.

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