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 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.

Give Your Hard-Working Feet the Gift of Radiant Floor Heat

Our feet do a lot of work. In fact, I would go so far to say that they are the hardest working part of our body, and they take a lot of abuse throughout the day. It’s a pity we don’t show our feet a little more love. And I bet that if your feet could write you a letter, they’d tell you that the only thing they could ask for is radiant floor heating.

Heated floors are hands down the  number one luxury you can give to your feet. Think about it—no more stepping on frozen hardwood floors in the morning or being shocked by frigid tiles after the shower. What more could your feet possibly want?

Of course, giving your feet the gift of radiant floor heat isn’t hard to do. With their ease and affordability, radiant floor heating systems make pampering your feet simple. Heated floors heat the room from the bottom up, heating up the surrounding objects first and creating a warm and cozy environment. It’s kind of like digging your feet into the warm sand at the beach, and we all know how much our feet love that sensation. What’s more, radiant floor heat is absolutely maintenance free, so you can rest assured knowing you got your feet a gift that keeps on giving.

Don’t let the foot abuse continue any longer. Install a radiant floor heating system and see how both you and your feet can benefit from the unparalleled comfort of heated floors. 

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.

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. 

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 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? 

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 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. 

Radiant Floor Warming is Versatile and Durable

It only makes sense that when you buy a product or service you expect it to work. You want results and you want them for a good price and at minimal hassle. Radiant floor heat is a product with pleasing results. What was once the cold, unwelcome floor in your dream home is now the warm and inviting path to the kitchen every morning.

If you dreaded walking into a cold office each morning, waiting as the heat circulated to finally make it bearable, then installing a radiant floor heating system will offer results in no time. Warm floors will greet you each morning with your cup of joe instead of the fresh puffs of your breath.

Comfort, luxury, and efficient heat are not the only results provided by underfloor heating. Radiant floor heat is both versatile and durable. With home and commercial applications available, almost every environment you find yourself in during a 24-hour period can be steeped in warmth and comfort. Radiant floor heat can be applied to small and large spaces. Tackle a small bathroom first or go big and see underfloor heating a reality in your large office space. Employees love it, even if they don’t know what type of heat is working for them. They just know they are warm for once in their career. Homes and commercial buildings alike benefit from the warming results of radiant floor heating systems. Contact us today to find out more.

Make a Little Wiggle Room in Your Budget this Fall with Radiant Floor Heating

Well, it’s finally here. Fall has finally made its appearance with chilly weather and falling leaves. If you have radiant heated floors, however, then the leaves aren’t the only thing falling this season—your heating bills might be too.

Radiant floor heating is changing the way you heat your home this winter while also changing how much you pay for home heating. Heated floors are the most efficient way to heat your home. Instead of using forced air to heat the room, radiant floor heat uses top-of-the-line heating cables to warm your floors, which then heat the objects around the room, giving you a perfectly even heat.

It may sound luxurious, but electric radiant floor heat is actually more affordable than you’d think. Because heated floors heat your rooms so efficiently, you don’t have to leave them on as long to get the same results as your conventional heating methods. What’s more, radiant floor heating systems are zone-specific, meaning you can choose which rooms you heat, when you want them heated.

Additionally, radiant floor heating systems are virtually maintenance free. Once you install your heated floors, you won’t have to pay for any expensive maintenance, like changing furnace filters or fixing broken pilot lights. All you have to do is tell your radiant floor heating system when to turn on and in what room, and with absolutely no effort from you, you’ve got perfectly even, perfectly cozy heated floors.

So this fall, don’t wait around for your furnace to send your budget through the roof. Install radiant floor heating today and watch your costs fall and your comfort rise.

Don't let the many options out there fool you: Warmzone's radiant floor heating products are the superior choice in radiant heating.

It's well established that installing heated flooring is a great way to add comfort and value to your home. With so many radiant heating options to choose from, however, the task of installing a radiant floor heating system can seem a little daunting. Never fear―today is the day you get better acquainted with the myriad of electric floor heating options available to you.

Warmzone offers several different floor heating solutions that come in either mats or cables. Both options offer the consistently toasty comfort radiant floor heat has become so famous for and both are affordable and easy to install.

The latest and greatest innovation in radiant floor heating is the Ideal Heat Warm Ribbon. The Warm Ribbon cable is thin, flexible and extremely durable, allowing you to install the mat under just about any type of floor. Warm Ribbon is particularly well-suited for heating laminates and hardwood floors.

Warmzone also offers ComfortTile floor heating mats. At only 3/16 of an inch, these floor heating mats offer you low-profile installation, durability and maximum warmth. They also come with an adhesive back to make installation easy and pain-free.

On the cable side of things, Warmzone offers ComfortTile cable with a diameter of just ⅛ of an inch. The electric radiant floor heating cable is installed in the thinset, keeping your floor buildup to a minimum. You can install the cable under marble, slate, tile, hardwood, and even carpeted flooring.

The In-Slab heat cable is only ¼ of an inch in diameter, and once installed in a concrete slab, you can throw any type of flooring on top of it, including hardwood, ceramic tile, you name it. The best part is, the In-Slab (and ComfortTile) heat cable comes with a 10-year warranty―now just try and beat that.

Installing a radiant floor heating system doesn't have to be a hassle. With so many options to choose from, there's bound to be a radiant floor heating option to meet your needs and creativity.

When prospective home buyers are shopping for a new home, one of the top selling points is the type of heating system that is installed in the home. Is it natural gas, propane or electric heat in the form of wall-mounted radiators? The majority of today’s homes have a central system that utilizes natural gas or propane. Most people don’t even think about another type of heating system – one that has existed since the days of the Roman Empire – but has only recently been gaining widespread popularity. It is radiant floor heating, which produces comfortable warmth that radiates upwards from the warm floor.

It’s a shame that more people haven’t heard about radiant floor heat. A radiant heating system installed in the floor is by far the most comfortable way to heat a home.

Just about every article I have ever read on radiant heating touts the efficiency of these systems, but I wasn’t fully convinced until I installed an under-floor heating system in my home. While radiant heating systems are generally more efficient than forced air systems (more on that in a bit), the advantage I want to focus on is the enhanced comfort level that you will enjoy. I installed my radiant floor heating system in a home I built in the 90s, and I cannot overstate the supreme level of comfort that these systems provide. It seems that when your feet are warm you feel warm all over.

So, just how are floors heated? There are two primary methods used today. One is electric radiant systems where heat cable is used to provide the heat; the other is hydronic systems, which circulate heated water under the floor.

I used the hydronic radiant heating system for my home. Polybutylene tubing was attached to wire remesh and then the concrete slab was poured over the wire and tubing. A boiler heated the water, which was then circulated by a pump through the tubing installed under the floor.

While there are varying types of electric radiant heating systems, most utilize a wiring grid that is laid on the sub-floor and then the finished flooring is installed over the heating cable. (Heat cable is available in rolls as well as in pre-spaced woven mats, making installation quick and simple.)

Ceramic tile is a common material for radiant heat systems as it has a low R value. (R value describes the insulating properties of a material. It is a measure of how well the material resists the flow of heat through it, and combines the thermal conductivity and thickness into one term.) It does not isolate the heat from being transmitted through to the room. Electric floor heating systems are generally more efficient than forced air systems because the heat radiates upwards from the floor rather than rising quickly to the top of the room. Radiant heat systems also operate silently and don’t blow dust and allergens into the air.

The advantages of radiant heat are many, but the bottom line is comfort. You’re certain to feel more comfortable with a radiant system than you will with a forced air system.

Spread the word. Donate your slippers to Goodwill and enjoy the enhanced comfort level that radiant floor heating systems provide.