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.

Staying Warm and Comfortable when it's Cold Outside

We are still in the middle of winter and it just plain looks cold outside. Every time you step outside you feel a chill to the bone. The perfect indoor remedy for this is a toasty, radiant heated floor. Underfloor heat is just what you need to get back up to speed when you have been out in the cold. It’s hard not to purr when thinking about it.

Electric radiant floor heat is quite easy to install and it’s a shame homes don't come “standard” with warm floors. I suspect heated floors will be much more common in the years to come. Radiant floor heating utilizes a cable mesh system (such as the Danfoss LX mat or Ideal Heat's Warm Ribbon) laid out on the subfloor. Your finish flooring is then applied over the heat cable. The result is instant-favorite-room syndrome, guaranteed. The comfort of warm floors is unmatched. When your feet are warm, you feel warm all over.

It’s also more likely to be an efficient heat source, as you just need to heat the lower portion of the room where you hang out. (Forced air systems stir up dust and tend to heat the top half of the room.) If you have tall ceilings, warmth emanating from the floor will be even more noticeable – and enjoyable. You don't end up wasting all that heat way up near the ceiling where only the spiders can enjoy it.

If you haven’t experienced radiant floor heating systems, do yourself a big favor and check it out. If not for this winter you can get one in plenty of time to enjoy it next year, and even year 'round. One thing is certain, the weather will be cold again next winter, so why not be prepared by installing a radiant heated floor system?