If You Have High Ceilings You Need Warm Your Floor

If you have high ceilings in your home, you may be paying far too much on your heating bills. You see, most forms of heating – including forced air systems, radiator systems and baseboard heating – attempts to warm the air in a room by overheating a device (such as a radiator or furnace, for example). As the heating system churns out hot air, the laws of science dictate that the hot air quickly rushes towards the ceiling. As it cools, it drops, in theory heating your room. If you have very small rooms, this may even work, at least partly. If you have higher ceilings, though, this method of heating can spell costly problems.

You see, when the hot air quickly rises to the ceiling, it loses heat as it travels. If it has farther to go because you have high ceilings, you are losing much of the heat your furnace or heating system is producing. Worse, as the air cools and begins to drop, it has further to travel, so it is cooler when it gets to where you and your family are. This means that you may really have to crank the thermostat to get comfortable. Worse, traditional heating systems only warm the air. This means that surface areas such as walls, ceilings, and furniture remain cold and contribute to the cool temperatures in a room. Unfortunately, if you have high ceilings, you have larger walls areas and this can mean that more surface areas in a room remain cool, which makes it hard for you to stay warm.

If you have high ceilings, you owe it to yourself to contact Warm Your Floor. Warm Your Floor can help you install heated floors in your home, which can solve many of the problems associated with traditional heating systems. With in floor heating, your entire floor becomes a heating source. In floor heating is installed under the floors and works through radiant energy. Rather than heating the air, under floor heating radiates heat to the objects in your room. This makes these objects keep you cozy. Rather than heating your ceiling – where you don’t live -- heated floors heat the living area where you and your family actually are. Plus, since you are not heating the air, you are not losing energy as the air heads towards the ceiling and cools down. This means that with in floor heating you enjoy greater comfort and warmth as well as smaller energy bills. With in floor heating, you can turn down your thermostat a few degrees and still stay warm and comfortable. If you have high ceilings, you may be able to see a dramatic change in your heating costs when you switch to underfloor heating.