Messana radiant ceiling heating/cooling
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we have just installed a Messana ceiling panel radiant heating/cooling system. it’s been up and running for about 6 months now. it’s a New England coastal location. we have had mixed results during the cooling season but the heating experience has been good. there have been some reliability issues though. i’m interested in hearing other’s experience so far.
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It's not Messana brand but I do have ceiling heating panels in my house. I've gone through an odyssey with cooling, and here's the conclusion I've come to: at the present time, there is no methodology for engineering these systems. You build them and see if they work, sometimes they do but mostly they don't.
Specifically, there is no methodology for engineering latent heat removal, also known as dehumidification. With traditional HVAC it's just assumed to happen as a side effect of air conditioning.
I was born in New England and lived much of my life there, and if you're in a coastal region I would expect you're in a place where dehumidifiers are popular even in houses with air conditioning. In those conditions there really isn't a place for panel cooling.
Can you describe your experience with the cooling season? I’m extremely interested in Messana’s panels. Do you have the standard gypsum or the graphene versions? To DC’s point, what is your strategy for latent loads?