A premium comfort system you can spec with confidence, and never get called back on
Every system you put in a home is a warranty you carry for years. Waterless DX radiant gives builders and developers a way to deliver true luxury comfort while engineering out the failure modes that drive callbacks. There is no water in the floor, refrigerant runs directly through a corrosion-resistant copper loop, so there is no boiler, no buffer tank, no circulating pump, and no slab-leak liability hiding under the finish. The floor delivers even, draft-free warmth that buyers feel the moment they walk a model home, and a paired air handler covers cooling and hot water from one all-electric platform that fits today's air-source heat-pump-first energy codes. The loop adds only about 1 to 2 inches of build-up, so it works cleanly in new construction. It is the differentiator that lets your spec homes command a premium, purpose-built for your quality life.
Why spec waterless radiant instead of a furnace or mini-splits in a new home?
Furnaces and mini-splits put your spec home in the same price comparison as every other builder. Waterless DX radiant gives buyers invisible, draft-free warmth they feel on a model-home walk and pay a premium for, while it engineers out forced-air comfort callbacks. It is all-electric, fits air-source heat-pump-first energy codes, and covers cooling and hot water from one platform, so it differentiates the home and simplifies your mechanical spec at once.
Common Builders & Developers Challenges
We understand the unique production challenges your industry faces. Here's how we address them.
Comfort and warranty callbacks erode your margin
Forced-air homes generate the comfort complaints that turn into callbacks: cold corners, drafts, noisy registers, and uneven rooms a buyer notices after closing. Waterless DX radiant warms the whole floor evenly and quietly, holding tight room-to-room temperature with no blowing air, so the comfort that sold the home is the comfort the owner lives with, and your service calls drop.
Slab-leak liability you carry for years
A water loop in or under the slab is a long-tail liability: a leak means chipping out finished concrete, a damaged home, and a claim with your name on it. Our floor loop carries no water at all. It is a corrosion-resistant, weld-free copper capillary network, pressure-tested gas-tight before the floor is closed, so the water-loop leak, scale, and freeze failure modes simply do not exist.
Hard to differentiate a spec home on mechanicals
Two builders on the same street quote the same mini-splits and furnaces, so price becomes the only lever. Invisible, draft-free radiant comfort is a feature buyers can feel on a model-home walk and will pay a premium for, and a waterless DX system with no water risk is something the builder down the road cannot put on a spec sheet.
Solutions Built for Builders & Developers
One all-electric platform for heating, cooling, and hot water
Instead of speccing a furnace, a separate AC, and a water heater, you design around one air-source heat-pump platform: radiant floor heat below, a quiet air handler for cooling and dehumidification, and domestic hot water from the same system. Fewer pieces of equipment to coordinate, fewer trades, and a clean all-electric package that fits air-source heat-pump-first energy codes.
Heat, Cool & Hot Water — One System →Code-ready, all-electric, no gas to run
As state energy codes move to air-source heat-pump-first prescriptive paths and electric-ready requirements for new homes, an all-electric DX platform spec's cleanly with no combustion appliance, no flue, and no gas line. It is rated for cold-climate performance with a COP up to 4.6, so it holds comfort in northern markets without electric-resistance backup driving up the bill.
Cold-Climate Air-Source Heat-Pump Platform →Engineered before the floor closes, with partner support
New construction is the best-fit application because the loop is laid out, pressure-tested, and quality-controlled while the floor is open. We back the build end to end: system sizing and design review, one-stop kits, project supervision, and installer training, so your crew that already runs refrigerant line-sets can deliver it without a hydronic license.
Products for Builders & Developers
Waterless DX Radiant Floor System
The core heating layer: refrigerant runs directly through a weld-free, corrosion-resistant copper capillary network embedded just beneath the finished floor, turning the floor into a low-temperature radiant emitter. No water, no boiler, no buffer tank, no circulating pump, only about 1 to 2 inches of floor build-up, and no slab-leak liability.
Inverter Air-Source Heat-Pump Outdoor Unit
A single inverter air-source heat pump drives the whole home with a COP up to 4.6 and reliable cold-climate output, with no electric-resistance backup required for heat. One all-electric outdoor unit replaces the furnace and condenser, simplifying your mechanical spec and meeting air-source heat-pump-first code paths.
Air Handler for Cooling, Dehumidification & Hot Water
Cooling and dehumidification are delivered through a quiet indoor air handler, not the floor, so there is no chilled-floor condensation risk. The same air-source heat-pump platform also produces domestic hot water, giving the home heating, cooling, and hot water from one coordinated all-electric system.
A developer heats a community of homes with no district heating, and no water loops
Challenge
A residential developer needed independent, premium heating across a community of homes with no district-heating supply, and wanted to avoid the slab-leak and freeze liability of in-slab water loops while still offering the comfort that differentiates higher-end units.
Solution
Each unit was fitted with an independent waterless DX radiant system: refrigerant sent directly through embedded corrosion-resistant copper loops, pressure-tested before the floors were closed, driven by an inverter air-source heat pump per home with cooling handled through air handlers. No boilers, no buffer tanks, no circulating pumps, and no water in the floors anywhere in the development.
Result
The developer delivered even, draft-free radiant comfort as a per-unit differentiator while removing water-loop leak, scale, and freeze risk from the entire community, with each home running on its own all-electric air-source heat-pump platform.
Independent all-electric system per home, no district heating needed
No slab-leak liability, no water in any floor loop
COP up to 4.6 from a single inverter air-source heat pump per unit
Proven where it counts: real buildings, real winters, real years in service
Field-proven across real residential and light-commercial projects through our manufacturing partner network, not a prototype.
690,000 sq ft installed
Installed footprint
In service since ~2017
Track record
~1–2 inch build-up
Floor build-up
No slab-leak liability
Builder liability
Frequently Asked Questions
That is the core benefit for builders. Forced-air systems generate the cold-corner, draft, and noise complaints that become post-closing service calls. Radiant warms the whole floor evenly and silently with tight room-to-room temperature control, so the comfort that closed the sale is what the owner lives with. And because there is no water in the floor, the slab-leak, scale, and freeze-burst failure modes of hydronic radiant are removed, taking that long-tail liability off your books.
No water-loop slab-leak risk. Traditional hydronic radiant circulates water or glycol through tubing in or under the slab, and a leak means chipping out finished concrete. Our system carries refrigerant, not water, through a corrosion-resistant, weld-free copper capillary network that is pressure-tested gas-tight before the floor is closed. The water-loop leak, scaling, and pipe-freeze failure modes do not apply, so the long-tail slab liability you would otherwise carry is gone.
Yes. It is a fully all-electric air-source heat-pump platform with no combustion appliance, flue, or gas line, which aligns with the air-source heat-pump-first prescriptive paths and electric-ready requirements that more states are adopting for new homes. A single inverter air-source heat pump delivers heating, cooling, and hot water with a COP up to 4.6 and cold-climate output that does not lean on electric-resistance backup. Your design team should confirm sizing and verification against the local code edition for each project.
The copper loop adds only about 1 to 2 inches of build-up, so it integrates cleanly into new floor assemblies without disrupting finish heights. New construction is the best-fit application because the loop is laid out, pressure-tested, and quality-controlled while the floor is open, which is also when warranty and QA responsibility is clearest. We provide sizing, design review, one-stop kits, and project supervision so it drops into your build schedule.
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