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Do You Have Warm Air but Frozen Toes?

June 18, 2009 00:06 AM  BY  BOB SHAWGO

Heating a Room from the Ground Up, Just Makes Sense.

If you’re like me, the first thing you reach for as you get out of bed in the winter are your slippers. Then you check the thermostat to see if the room is really as cold as it feels. The problem isn’t in your furnace, and it isn’t your circulation; it’s your floors. The simple fact is heat rises.

ComfortTile heated floor mat.Heated floors, however, allow heat to start where it’s most needed and then radiate up through the room. With radiant heated floors, the first thing to get warm are those cold toes, followed by the rest of the room. If you have small children or pets, they spend a lot more time close to the floor than you do. They’ll feel the difference of a heated floor right away.

The other thing you’ll notice or won’t notice with radiant heated floors, is the constant white noise of the furnace. A heated floor silently goes about it’s job of heating the room without a lot of noisy commotion from burners lighting up and fans blasting autumn dust throughout the house.

Do yourself and your toes a favor and look into how easy and affordable it can be to install heated floors this year. You’ll love the way you feel, and you’ll love not having to hunt around for your slippers.


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