Reddit reviews Modern Hydronic Heating: For Residential and Light Commercial Buildings

Yeah look for idronics, you can request copies but they are all probably online. They also have monthly webinars that get put on YouTube eventually.

Another good read would be https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1428335153

Also anything by Dan Holohan

I would worry about condensation and mold on your cool ceiling. If your summers are humid, that would be a bigger problem than if they're dry...

We just put in radiant heating in our home last year and had a very pleasant winter. It was a DIY job and the Siegenthaler book was extremely helpful. Definitely worth the money. Another excellent resource: heatinghelp.com

Good luck!

Modern Hydronics is a great start.
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Hydronic-Heating-Residential-Commercial/dp/1428335153

Look into the trade groups as well.

http://www.igshpa.okstate.edu
https://www.ashrae.org

http://epb.lbl.gov/thermal/hydronic.html

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Hydronic-Heating-Residential-Commercial/dp/1428335153

Hydronics is a well tested and used technology, just that its expensive in the initial installation. Similar as with solar panels, you have to pay up front, but then it pays for itself.

Sinking an insulated tank containing a couple of tonnes of water in your basement is quite easy, easy also to heat up the water with water panels on your roof, then extract the heat later.

People use this to maintain 65F temps in their modern ultra efficient houses.

Google and read up on it.

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Hydronic-Heating-Residential-Commercial/dp/1428335153

this is a good one for hydronics. also can't go wrong with keeping a copy of pumping away and primary secondary pumping made easy

http://www.amazon.com/Primary-Secondary-Pumping-Made-Easy-Holohan/dp/0974396079