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Radiant Floor Heating Should not Freak You Out

November 11, 2011 00:11 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Don't Be Intimidated by Radiant Heating

Sure, anything new can be intimidating, but if you are considering radiant floor heating for your own home, there's no reason to be freaked out by such a weighty decision. In fact, if you knew all the wonderful facts about radiant floor heating you would be rushing out to get it installed today and wondering why you waited so long.

Radiant heated kitchen floor. Radiant floor heating is a simple and affordable way to improve your existing home heating, supplement a current furnace or fireplace, or just heat from the ground up your entire new home. Whether you are living in a home that already has the heating system in place or you are beginning the journey of home construction you can benefit from the warmth and comfort radiant heating has to offer.

Radiant heating is not a new product or trend but it if one that is picking up momentum. Helping push it along the popular track of home improvements are the recent studies showing how energy efficient radiant floor heating can be and how radiant floor heating systems can actually save you money in the long run. This sounds not only good, but great to a lot of penny-pinching consumers as we all face economic hardships. Saving money is what we're all interested in these days and finding a home heating system that can aid in our savings is rare and precious. There is no need to be intimidated by radiant heating. We are here to help walk you through the decisions you'll need to make from how much radiant heat cable to buy, to how to install it, to how to operate it once it's in place.


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Love Your Floor Heating System and it Will Love You Back

August 31, 2011 00:08 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Radiant Heat is Lovable

Installing a floor heating system will be a quick courtship. You’ll go from the initial research (dating) stage, to a promise ring in no time once you learn all the advantages of this home heating method. You’ll fall in love quickly with the idea of having underfloor heating and you’ll go to great lengths to make it a long lasting relationship. If you love your floor heating system like so many others do, we are confident that it will love you right back. You’ll enjoy the comfort and warmth and high efficiency floor heating has become synonymous for.

Heated floors are a simple way to reignite the warmth you feel for your home. Our living space makes us feel safe, loved, and appreciated, especially when filled with home amenities such as underfloor heating. The other comforting part is that they are generally fairly affordable to install and offer many cost savings down the road with their energy savings and efficient warming output. You’ll take one step on your warmed floor and fall instantly in love with the concept of radiant floor heating and wonder how you ever lived without it. Call any of our floor heating experts today to set up your first date with your warm floor and start a beautiful and warm relationship.


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Efficient Radiant Floor Heat

February 23, 2011 00:02 AM  BY  BENSON RICKS

Raise the Comfort Level with Underfloor Heating

The concept of radiant heat has been around since the days of the Roman Empire, but have you experienced the comfort of a heated floor yet? Radiant heated floors are an alternative way of providing heat for any particular room. They utilize a grid of heat cable underneath the finish floor surface and the result is an efficient, warm floor that heats your home from the ground up.

Installing radiant floor heating cable. Warmzone offers a variety of proven floor heating systems for just about any type of surface. As an industry leader, Warmzone’s services and products are a cut above the competition. Durability and efficiency are extremely important when it comes to floor heating, and Warmzone is a name you can trust. By working with the pros at Warmzone, you’ll be assured of receiving the top radiant heat products, system design and engineering, and service.

Radiant floor heat provides unsurpassed comfort and eliminates the drafts and noise of a blowing furnace. These maintenance-free systems are fully automated and feature programmable thermostats so you can heat rooms individually as your needs warrant. If you have rooms that aren’t going to be used for awhile you can shut the heat off to those areas with a punch of a button. The ability to customize and heat zones individually greatly ads to the overall efficiency of the system.

Heated floors can be installed in existing surfaces as well, so don’t feel you have missed out if you have just taken possession of a new home and it lacks the comfort of radiant floor heat. If you have access to the floor joists from below, you can retrofit your floors with an electric radiant floor heating system.


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The Model in Remodeling

December 22, 2010 00:12 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Add Heat to Your Remodeling Project

Facing a remodeling project can be daunting. Hopefully you have laid a good groundwork with research, questions asked and answers received, and your ideas put on paper. It can be scary and daunting to begin a big project that involves things being torn out or other things being added in. If you are doing anything to your floors throughout your home you would be the model in remodeling if you put heated floors in. This simple upgrade can be such a powerful addition to your home’s comfort and even to your heating bill. Radiant floor heating is more efficient and more comfortable. It reduces the dust that forced air heating systems can cause and it heats efficiently from the ground up.

Any remodeling project will go from hassle to hallelujah with the simple addition of floor heating. It takes you from good to great and you’ll be so happy you decided to add heated floors to your project. It will increase the comfort and luxury in your home. Heated floors also increase the value of your home and become an attractive re-sell feature when that time comes. You’ll enjoy the radiant heat seeping into your feet for years to come and you’ll be so happy you added heat to your remodeling project.


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ComfortTile Floor Heating Cable

December 22, 2010 00:12 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

A Unique Solution for Heating Hardwood Floors

Radiant floor heating seems to be all the rage these days. But not all heating systems are created equal. There are many great products available in the industry. There is one outstanding radiant floor heating system that is ideal for hardwood floors. It’s called ComfortTile. So if you are considering placing hardwood in your home read on.

ComfortTile floor heating systems.ComfortTile is one of the easiest systems to install and one of the most effective. It’s no wonder that it’s a leader in the radiant heating industry. One of the major issues many builders face when installing any kind of radiant heating product is the proper build-up of the floor height. This can affect many important parts of your homes comfort and operational ability. Things like opening and closing doors or placing electrical outlets properly all depend on where the floor levels are. The thin ComfortTile makes it an excellent solution for heating hardwood floors which are thin to begin with. You can also use the HeatShield floor insulation panels to optimize performance. The HeatShield has pre-formed grooves that you can place the heat cable in. This may not be the right home heating solution for everyone, but it’s certainly one of the most common, and proves that radiant floor heating has come a long way, baby.


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Lavish Your Loved Ones

September 16, 2010 00:09 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Radiant Floor Heating is a Lavish Luxury for Low Cost

Do you dream of being able to lavish your loved ones with extra perks in life? Deluxe hot cocoa flown in from Belgium, extra fluffy towels, dream vacation to Disneyland? What about radiant floor heating in your teenage daughter’s bathroom? Every morning on her list of daily complaints you find “cold floors” so why not consider a heated tile floor. Or your wife bemoans walking into the kitchen each morning to fix her cup of Joe. It’s simply too cold. Why can’t you have floor heating there too? Good news…you can!

Radiant floor heating is a lavish sounding luxury that may seem too pricey given your shrinking bank accounts. The good news is that not only is it an affordable upgrade to your home, it is also a great home improvement investment. Radiant heated floors can be easily added to a small room or the whole house and without breaking the bank. What may sound like a luxury far beyond your reach is technically within your power to obtain. Now more than ever a warm floor is a feature that home buyers and builders are gravitating towards. They feel great, heat efficiently and make heating your home luxuriously slick to do.

Go ahead and dream big, dream lavishly, dream of the day your teenager says “I love you” again without following it up with “can I borrow the car.” Dream of the day your wife skips to the kitchen bare feet and not only pour herself some hot coffee, but makes a mug for you too. All these things could become a reality with radiant floor heating, a simple luxury you can afford.


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Considering Radiant Heat? Be Choosey

March 09, 2010 00:03 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Find the Radiant Floor Heating System That is Right for You

When it comes to choosing a radiant floor heating system, go ahead and be choosey. A floor heating system is an affordable home improvement project, yet it should reflect the needs and desires of your lifestyle. The radiant underfloor heating system should match what you are trying to achieve in home heating. So yes, it is ok to be choosey. In fact, it is recommended. Warmzone offers several options which are all great for radiant floor heating solutions, but each system has been designed with specific applications in mind.

Installing a radiant heated floor.Researching a project like this can be somewhat overwhelming. There are countless floor heating systems available in the market today. One of the most trusted radiant heat experts is Warmzone. Warmzone helps to simplify the process while acting as your radiant heating expert, available to answer questions and provide top-notch customer service as you weather the floor heating minefield. Warmzone has done the research for you and is available to consult with you on your project needs and offer comprehensive radiant floor heating system designs matched to your specifications. Warmzone trusts the top radiant heat designers and distributors to be their partner in giving you the system that is right for you.

Installing a radiant heated floor may seem daunting in the beginning. That is why it is important to be choosey and work only with trusted experts with a proven track record. Choose who you want to work with and trust them to guide you through the questions you will inevitably have. Warmzone is just such a partner in floor heating. Look to them to help find the best floor heating system for your home. 


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Treat Yourself with Radiant Floor Heating

March 03, 2010 00:03 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Cut on the Costs, not the Luxury

There’s no escaping it. The economy is on the fritz, and we’re all feeling the heat to some degree. Given the current financial climate, we can’t all go out and buy a brand new home just because we’re sick of our current one. Fortunately, there’s a quick and affordable way to spice up your current home that will leave you feeling like you just moved into a brand new luxury mansion: radiant floor heat.

Heated floor in kitchen. Heated floors turn an old, tired home into a luxurious refuge in no time at all. Once you feel the delightfully warm floors on your feet after you get of bed or the shower, you’ll feel like you’ve been transported to a first-class bed and breakfast and living in the lap of luxury.

Radiant floor heating systems are easy and affordable to install, operate, and maintain, something we can all appreciate in these tough times, and there are several floor heating options available. Heated floors warm a room quickly and produce a long-lasting heat, cutting down dramatically on operation costs. Additionally, electric radiant floor heat is completely maintenance free—no filters to change, no harmful allergens to worry about—just 100 percent worry- free comfort. And the best part? Once you are ready to move to a new home, your radiant floor heating system will greatly increase your home’s value, making it a hot commodity on the home market.

So rather than buy a brand new home, improve the value of the one you’ve got with radiant floor heating. It’ll save you heaps of money while still making you feel like you’ve spoiled yourself. What more could you possibly want? 


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Make it to Spring with Radiant Floor Heating

February 12, 2010 00:02 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Beat the End-of-Winter Blues with the Luxury of Heated Floors

Well, it’s official. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and cursed us all with six more weeks of winter. While we’re all ready for spring, we have to find a way to live with the remainder of the winter months, and what better way to weather the cold than with heated floors?

That’s right, radiant floor heat is a little slice of luxury that anyone can afford. Winter can be long and oft times arduous, but with electric radiant floor heat, you’re sure to find sanctuary to help you withstand the dregs of winter.

Radiant heated floor being installed (heated mats).Radiant floor heating is one of the simplest but greatest pleasures that’s still a best kept secret. Rather than using dusty ducts to heat your home, radiant floor heating systems heat your floor and the objects in the room, creating a perfectly even heat that, in my opinion, can’t be rivaled.

Radiant floor heating systems can be installed in any type of home, in any type of room, for any type of budget. Whether your feet are craving heat in the bathroom, the bedroom, the kitchen, or the basement, you can treat them to a heat that puts traditional forced air or baseboard heating systems to shame.

Of course, these months after Christmas can be pretty tight financially, so a luxury like heated floors might seem out of reach. The good news, however, is that they are affordable—surprisingly so—and with low installation and even lower operation costs, you can install radiant floors and find that last reason to stay awake until spring.

Don’t let the winter months get you down. Spring is close, so find that one last piece of sanity to get you through the next couple of months with heated floors. You definitely won’t regret it. 


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Cold Feet No More

February 08, 2010 00:02 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Say Goodbye to Frigid Toes for Good with Radiant Floor Heating

There are a lot of unpleasant things in this world, but I think cold feet top the list. In fact, freezing cold feet not only top the list—they sit far, far above everything else, right next to stepping onto an icy tile floor first thing in the morning, laughing at our discomfort and icy misery. For those of you who agree with me, there’s a solution—radiant floor heating.

Walking around on a cold floor results in more than just cold feet—it could eventually result in dry, itchy skin and poor circulation. What’s more cold feet and floors are just downright unpleasant, and it’s high time we stopped suffering and experienced the benefits of heated floors.

Radiant underfloor heating (tile floor).Heated floors may sound like a luxury, and they are—but an affordable one. Radiant floor heating systems are on the rise in new home all across America, and it’s easy to see why, what with their luxurious comfort and brilliant efficiency.

Electric radiant floor heat is much different than the traditional forced heating you’re used to. Rather than heating the air in the room, radiant floor heating systems heat the floor and the objects in the room, creating an ambience of perfect warmth and comfort. And the best part? They only turn on when they need to, and get the job done fast, meaning you get maximum efficiency for the optimal price.

With the ease and convenience of radiant floor heat at our fingertips, it’s silly to sit back and allow our feet to freeze. Install heated floors in your home today and experience a whole new world of luxury for your feet. 


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