The Appeal of Warm Your Floor

Warm Your Floor heated floors pack plenty of appeal. In addition to being completely invisible, in floor heating just makes sense as a superior form of heating. Even heating industry experts, home builders, contractors, and architects tend to agree that this form of heating simply has more benefits. Not only does in floor heating reduce energy costs, but it also improves comfort and creates a better overall home life experience.

How can under floor heating make so many claims? The reason is simple. In this type of heating, electric wires or hot water tubes underneath the floor provide warmth. As thermal radiation rises from underneath the floor, the waves of radiation warm up any objects they come into contact with. In turn, these objects radiate warmth. This means that in homes heated with heated floors, air temperature remains fairly constant, but surrounding surfaces are actually heating your body, rather than stealing warmth from it. This ensures that you stay more comfortable with floor heat.

This means that in floor heating is completely opposite to what happens in most forced air heating systems. In forced air heating systems, hot air at a blistering 120° zooms out of air vents. Once in a room, the hot air quickly rises to the ceiling, were it quickly loses heat. As it cools, the warm air drops back down to the floor. This results in air temperature that is uncomfortable, as your head can be very warm while your toes remain frozen.

It's also important to remember that in floor heating doesn't cycle heat. In most forced air systems, the furnace quickly raises the air temperature to perhaps 70°, and then shuts off. This creates jarring cycles of hot and then cold temperatures. Once the hot air stops pumping from your furnace, you may feel temporarily cold. This is hardly comfortable. This is also what underfloor heating allows you to avoid. With radiant floor heating, your floors reach up to 85°. They stay at 85°, rather than blasting you with cold and hot air. Plus, while warm air produced by floor heating also rises up, it tends to rise over the entire surface of the floor. This helps ensure that the warmest air stays at your feet, while the coolest air is up at the ceiling, where there are no people anyway. Why would you want to heat the ceiling of your rooms, where no one spends their time, rather than the floor level, where your family lives? If you're ready for a more comfortable and more economic warmth experience, contact Warm Your Floor today. We can help you find the right heating solution -- whether you want to heat a room or an entire home.