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Radiant Heat systems have become standard practice in today's new home construction and in many renovation project's across the country.
In the late 1940's Copper tubing and Portland based concrete were used to install the first mass produced homes on the east coast.
Within 15 to 20 years however this combination had fallen out of use due to the corrosive nature of the concrete against the copper tubing in the United States.
While the United States Builders stopped using the radiant systems due to the unreliablity of the copper tubing, the Europeans and Scandinavians began installing plastic tubing to use for In-Floor / Radiant Heated Floors and Ice melt systems for out door use.
In 1968 Thomas Engel, a German engineer, developed a chemical crosslink polyethylene, now known as PEX Tubing. Later, Sweden's Wirsbo Began to manufacture PEX.
Around the same time as the first PEX hit the market, the first commercially available Gypsum products began to show up on the market. Just Like the first Radiant tubing this new product needed much refinement. Though these products had a bad reputation that lasted due to the first few years of low quaility and low performance, by the early 1970's a big change took place in the Gypsum Underlayment world, when the first usable Gypsum Product was introduced by Gypcrete Corp (Now Maxxon Corp.) Since then the Gypsum / Gypcrete products began to evolve into highly reliable and usable products.
In the early 1980's Radiant Heat installers began using Gyp-Crete over there Pex tubing and by the late 1980's Gyp-Crete Corp began developing the first Underlayment Specifically designed for use with Radiant Heat.
Around the same time Gyp-Crete Corp. changed there name to Maxxon Inc, so they could introduce there new line of high strength Gypsum Underlayments. One of the new products introduced is called Therma-Floor.
As soon as Therma-Floor was introduced by Maxxon to the radiant heat installers, it was an instant success and though it has gone through some upgrades to the formula it has become the preferred method of installation for tile, wood and carpet installers across the United States.
