Radiant Floor Heating – The Silent, Gentle Choice
Keith Stanford | January 22, 2010Winter is here in full force and it is those cold mornings that you would really appreciate radiant heat in your house. Most people choose to add this type of heat to their bathroom floors and maybe their kitchen floors but not much more. The cost of radiant floor heat makes it a bit expensive to outfit the whole house.
This is especially true if you decide to add radiant heated floors to the house in which you’re already living. But if you do decide to go ahead and add them to your home. electric rather than hydronic radiant heat might be your best choice. For just a couple of rooms, it is not worth the expense and complication of installing a hydronic system. It is easier on the budget to install electric heat in a room or two than it is to install hydronic heat.
Farsighted homeowners who installed radiant heat in their house when it was built have the luxury of enjoying it in every room, but most houses do not include it. The best time to incorporate radiant heating in a house is certainly when it is being built, but builders want to cut costs and so this pleasurable but costly element is usually left out.
Installing electric radiant heated floors will involve tearing the floors up to put electric heating pads underneath them. Obviously, a professional or someone who really knows what they are doing should do something like this. In the end though, if you don’t spend too much, it can definitely worth it for the comfort it will provide.
Radiant heat is always preferred over forced air because it is a silent and gentle heat that does not dry your skin as much. To understand what radiant heat feels like, think of sitting in the sun and feeling the warm rays cover your body. It is a heat that feels good and is able to heat the room evenly as opposed to forced air where the air is always rushing from room to room.
Are you trying to calculate what your in floor heating cost will be? Please go to my website Installing Radiant Floor Heating to find out how you can figure it out.













Recent Comments